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 Dr. Shagidullina was on the roster of iPalpiti Artists International, as well as a principal violist and a soloist of the iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra. She 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, Dr. 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.

Dr. 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.  From May 2016 till May 2019 Dr. Shagidullina was a resident of the Fine Art Music Company concert series and actively performed within that time frame. Dr. Shagidullina is the primary violist of The Embassy Quartet since September of 2021. In October of 2023 she won the position of the Principal violist of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, one of the most widely respected regional orchestras in the US. In February of 2025 she joined the roster of the acclaimed Serafin Ensemble, and has actively performed with them ever since. Dr. Shagidullina 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 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, Dr. 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.

Dr. Adelya Shagidullina’s principal instructor was Professor Eduard Schmieder of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music - one of the most important musicians of our time, Daniel Avshalomov, the violist of the well-known American Quartet, and the Grammy-award winning Professor 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.