Biography

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”, and “Togliatti International Competition”, as well as the First Prize and Special Prize for the best performance of a commissioned work at the National “J. S. Bach Competition”. In November 2016, Dr. Shagidullina was announced the First Prize winner of the “American Protege International Competition”, and a winner of the prestigious “The American Prize Competition” in the Professional Division. The former award won her an opportunity to give a solo performance in Carnegie Hall in December 2016. Dr. Shagidullina returned to Carnegie Hall in June 2019 for a solo performance as a top winner of the LISMA International competition (August 2017). In May 2018 she became a winner of Beverly Hills National Auditions, which won her concert engagements in Encinitas, Torrance, and Beverly Hills, CA, successfully taking place in May 2019.

From 2009 till 2015 Ms. Shagidullina was on the roster of iPalpiti Artists International, as well as a principal violist and a soloist of the iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Shagidullina has performed in such venues as the Saidashev State Big Concert Hall in Kazan, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic (Russia), as well as at the 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. As an iPalpiti soloist, Ms. Shagidullina appeared in the “New York Benefactors Series” at the residence of Charles Avery Fisher and was featured in “Sundays Live!” radio broadcast chamber concerts.

Ms. Shagidullina is an active solo, chamber, and orchestra musician, as well as a dedicated teacher. 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 appears in various chamber concert series, such as the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Bargemusic, Ltd.,BCENY Concert evenings, Mallery Concert Series, Embassy Concert Series, and Candlelight Concert Series.  In May 2016 she was invited to join the Fine Art Music Company concert series and actively performs with the group since then. Dr. Shagidullina is a violist of a newly formed Embassy Quartet since September of 2021. In September of 2022 Dr. Shagidullina has joined the viola section of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Shagidullina collaborated with such prominent musicians as Dmitry Berlinsky, Svetlana Smolina, Luiza Borac, Mark Peskanov, and Branford Marsalis, to name a few.

Over the past ten years, 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, and at Kazan State Conservatory and Kazan Special Music College in Russia. She has also privately tutored students and instructed several chamber music groups in Russia as well as in the U.S. While in Russia, she taught viola and violin lessons for 4 years as a teaching assistant to Professor Olga Khabibullina, coached the Junior viola section of the Youth Symphony Orchestra in Tolyatti, and appeared as a member of the jury at the “Kazan Special Music College Competition”. After moving to the United States to pursue her graduate degrees, Ms. Shagidullina continued her teaching career as a graduate teaching assistant at Temple Music Preparatory Division, as a Graduate Chamber Coach at Boyer College of Music and Dance, and as a teaching assistant in the studio of Professor Eduard Schmieder, as well as a private tutor in viola. Recently she was privileged to be a member of the jury of a Tri-County Concerts Youth Festival auditions, and give masterclasses at the ASTA Festival, Rowan University, and Gracias Music Festival at the School of Mahanaim.

During her years of study, Adelya Shagidullina has studied with Professor Eduard Schmieder of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music, with Daniel Avshalomov, the violist of the well-known American Quartet, and a Grammy-award winner Professor Lambert Orkis. Ms. Shagidullina holds a Doctoral degree in Musical Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia PA.