Violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua is known to enchant audiences with her dazzling technical skills and deeply inspiring musicality. Her debut album Dream Catcher gained international recognition after being recommended by Gramophone Magazine and The Strad, which hailed her playing as “luminously elevated” and “elegant and nimble”. As a soloist, Clarissa has performed with Orchestre Philarmonique de Monte-Carlo, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cape Symphony, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Filarmonica de Sibiu, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, El Sistema Orchestra, and at the opening concert of the Mozartwoche 2023 with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. In 2024, Clarissa was selected as a laureate of the prestigious Fondation Gautier Capuçon. Winner of several international violin competitions, she was awarded First Prize at the International Mozart Competition Salzburg. Clarissa is the Artistic Director of the DYNAMIKfest, a yearly classical contemporary chamber music festival in the heart of Salzurg, Austria. An avid and enthusiastic learner, Clarissa received her Bachelor of Music at age sixteen, graduating summa cum laude. She completed her Master of Music in Violin Performance at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Pierre Amoyal, and a Master of Violin Solo Performance at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin with Antje Weithaas.