Dr. Adelya Shagidullina is a prizewinning violist and violinist. Her numerous awards include top awards at the “Andrey Korsakov All Russian Music Competition”, “Eugen Coca International Music Competition”, “Togliatti International Competition”, National “J. S. Bach Competition”.  “American Protege International Competition”, “The American Prize Competition”, LISMA International competition, and Beverly Hills National Auditions.

 Dr. Shagidullina has performed in such venues as the Saidashev State Big Concert Hall in Kazan, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, St. Petersburg Philharmonic (Russia), Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, among others. She appeared in the “New York Benefactors Series” at the residence of Charles Avery Fisher and was featured in “Sundays Live!” radio broadcast chamber concerts.

Dr. Shagidullina is an active solo, chamber, and orchestra musician, as well as a dedicated teacher. From 2009 till 2015 Dr. Shagidullina was on the roster of iPalpiti Artists International, as well as a principal violist and a soloist of the iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra. In 2014, she joined the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for its American tour with Branford Marsalis and continued performing with the orchestra since then. She appeared in various chamber concert series, such as the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Fine Art Music Company, Bargemusic, BCENY Concert evenings, Mallery Concert Series, Embassy Concert Series, and Candlelight Concert Series. In February of 2025 Dr. Shagidullina joined the roster of the acclaimed Serafin Ensemble and has been actively performing with them ever since.

Dr. Adelya Shagidullina is the Principal violist of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, one of the most widely respected regional orchestras in the US. She collaborated with such prominent musicians as Yo-Yo-Ma, Dmitry Berlinsky, Svetlana Smolina, Luiza Borac, Mark Peskanov, and Branford Marsalis, to name a few.

Over the past twenty years Dr. Adelya Shagidullina has taught extensively at both public and private institutions, including Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance and School of Mahanaim in the United States, as well as at Kazan State Conservatory and Kazan Special Music College in Russia”. After moving to the United States to pursue her graduate degrees, Dr. Shagidullina continued her teaching career coaching chamber ensembles at Boyer College of Music and Dance, as a teaching assistant at Temple Music Preparatory Division, and in the studio of a renowned violin professor, Eduard Schmieder. She gave masterclasses at the ASTA Festival, Rowan University, and Gracias Music Festival at the School of Mahanaim.

Dr. Shagidullina’s main instructors included Eduard Schmieder, Daniel Avshalomov, and the Grammy-award winning musician, Lambert Orkis. Currently, Dr. Shagidullina is navigating her career under the mentorship of Dr. Alice Lindsay, retired principal violist of the Houston and New Jersey Symphonies and one of the most in demand teachers across the US.

 Dr. Shagidullina holds her Doctoral degree from Temple University, Philadelphia PA.