Sofia Yatsyuk

Violin

Orchestral Work
November 2024 - Present
September 2024 - Present
September 2024 - Present
September 2024 - Present
2023 - Present
2022 - July 2024
2023 - July 2024
2021 - March 2024
2022 - July 2024
2021 - July 2024
2020 - March 2024
2020 - March 2023

1st Violin, 4th/ 5th chair, The Hallé (Extra)
Principal 2nd Violin, Chromatica Orchestra
Concertmaster, London Concertante Chamber Orchestra
1st Violin Tutti, Chineke! Orchestra
1st Violin 3rd chair, Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
1st Violin Tutti, Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Extra)
2nd Violin Tutti, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Extra)
Concertmaster, Orchestre Nouvelle Génération
1st Violin Tutti, Musici de Montreal (Extra)
1st Violin Tutti, Orchestre Philhamonique et Choeur des Mélomanes
Principal 2nd Violin, Oktoécho Orchestra
1st Violin Tutti, Orchestre Métropolitain

Conductors worked with (selection)

Yan Pascal Tortelier, Sir Mark Elder, Sir Simon Rattle, Semyon Bychkov, Edward Gardner, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Robin Ticciati, Marin Alsop, Paul Daniel, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Murray Perahia, Alexis Hauser, Kent Nagano, Steven Mercurio, Kevin John Edusei, Theodore Kuchar, Oksana Lyniv, Kahchun Wong, Gustavo Dudamel.

Education
2020 - 2024

2017 - 2019
2013 - 2017

2007 - 2013
2006 - 2007
2001 - 2006

McGill University, Schulich School of Music - Doctor of Music (with Axel Strauss/ Violaine Melancon)
McGill University, Schulich School of Music - Master of Music (with Axel Strauss)
Royal Academy of Music - Bachelor of Music (with Mateja Marinkovic/ Carmine Lauri)
Purcell School of Music (with Evgeny Grach/ Igor Petrushevsk
Junior Royal Academy of Music
TernopilAcademy of Music

Scholarships/Prizes

2024 - Josephat Jean Foundation’s Music Doctoral Award

2023 - Graduate Excellence Fellowship Award, Schulich School of Music

2022 - Graduate Excellence Fellowship Award, Schulich School of Music

2020 - Schulich School of Music Star Violinist Scholarship Award

2020 - Heinz Saueressig Scholarship for Academic Excellency

2019 - Winner of the Kathleen Trust Award

2017 - Winner of the Marusia Yaworska Violinist Award

2013 - Royal Academy of Music Scholarship Award

2007 - Full scholarship funded by the Government’s Music and Dance Scheme for seven years of studies at the Purcell School of Music.

Masterclasses (selection)

Michael Frischenschlager, Tasmin Little, Zakhar Bron, James Ehnes, Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov, Violaine Melancon, Levon Chilingirian, Victor Danchenko, Ani Kavafian, Felix Andrievsky, Ani Schnarch.

Teaching (selection)
McGill University, Schulich School of Music - Violin Teacher, Chamber music coach, Orchestral coach (undergraduate and graduate violinists)
Prelude Education, London - Violin Teacher
El Sistema Encore, Kahnawake, Quebec - Violin Teacher
Masterclass taught at Dartmouth House, Londo
Masterclass taught at the Lviv Music Conservatory
Masterclass taught at Conservatoire de musique de Montreal

2022 - 2024
2024 - Present
2019 - 2020
October 2024
September 2024
November 2022

Major Solo Performances (selection)
March 2025 - Solo Album Release, Silent Voices, Intertwined Paths
          Works by Ethel Smyth and Rebecca Clarke. Release date - March 8th, 2025.
May 2024 - Final Doctorate Lecture Recital, Tanna Hall (Montreal, Canada)
          Solo recital and research defence featuring works by Ysaÿe, Silvestrov, Rebecca Clarke, and Ethel Smyth.
November 2022 - Carnegie Hall (New York, United States)
          Chamber music recital, works by Brahms, Skoryk and Silvestrov.
May 2022 - Notre-Dame-des-Bon-Secours Chapel (Montreal, Canada)
          Solo violinist, performing Iryna Aleksiychuk’s “Unto the Lord with my voice, I cried”
April 2021 - Pontiac Enchenté Music Festival (Gatineau, Canada)
          Solo recital, part of the Pontiac Enchenté Concert Series. Gave an interview on the music performed.
February 2020 - Centre St. Jax (Montreal, Canada)
          Soloist with Orchestre Nouvelle Génération, Vivaldi Four Seasons.
November 2019 - Valois United Church (Montreal, Canada)
          Soloist with the Lakeshore Orchestra, Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1.
June 2019 - Zalishchyky Arts Centre (Zalishchyky, Ukraine)
          Solo recital, music by Amy Beach, Florence Price, Rebecca Clarke, Ethel Smyth, and Lili Boulanger.
November 2017 - Churchill Room, Parliament building, (London, United Kingdom)
          Solo concert, performing Ysaÿe’s Violin Sonata No.4.
August 2016 - Museo Teatrale Carlo Schmidl (Trieste, Italy)
          Chamber music, Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, and Ethel Smyth’s String Quartet in E Minor.
August 2013 - (Piran Slovenia)
          Solo recital at Giuseppe Tartini's Home (broadcasted live).
July 2013 - Ternopil Drama Theatre (Ternopil, Ukraine)
          Solo orchestral debut, Ternopil Symphony Orchestra, performing Wieniawski’s Concerto No.2.

Studio Work
Equally at home in the recording studio, Sofia frequently works for film, TV and record producers, recording for a multitude of commercial artists, including Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli. Live performances include The Graham Norton Show and Strictly Come Dancing with Dame Shirley Bassey, as well as Andrea Bocelli’s 30th anniversary
concert at The Bell Centre in Montreal.

Research
Doctoral research: September 2020 - May 2024
Research Advisor: Dr. Lisa Barg (McGill University, Montreal, QC)

·           Women composers and their critics in the era of first-wave feminism: gender and the classical music
canon in Britain, 1850-1950 (Primary Dissertation Topic).
·           Neuroplasticity in musical training: the role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert
performance skills.
·           The origins and evolution of violin vibrato in Western classical art music

Academic Presentations
Dame Ethel Smyth and Her Critics: Gender and the Classical Music Canon in Britain, 1850- 1950.
                     Dublin City University Conference July, 2024
Women Composers and their Critics in the era of First-Wave Feminism: Gender and the Classical Music
Canon in Britain, 1850-1950.
                     McGill University May, 2024
The origins and evolution of violin vibrato in Western classical art music.
                     McGill University April, 2023

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Instruments
Violin