Adelya Shagidullina, Viola

Dr. Adelya Shagidullina is a prize-winning 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 International “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, in May 2019.
From 2009 through 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 Saydashev State Big Concert Hall in Kazan, Tchaikovsky Concert
Hall in Moscow, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic (Russia), as well as 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 the 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 through 2016. She appeared in
various chamber concert series, such as 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 performed with the group through 2019. Dr. Shagidullina is a violist of The
Embassy String Quartet since September of 2021, and a Principal Violist of the Fairfax
Symphony Orchestra since October of 2023. She currently performs with such groups as

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and Harrisbourg Symphony
Orchestra, among others. In February of 2023 Dr. Shagidullina joined the roster of the Serafin
Ensemble for its winter festival, and has been performing with them since then.
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 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 violin and viola. She held masterclasses at Rowan University and Gracias Music
Festival at the School of Mahanaim.
During her years of studying, Adelya Shagidullina has studied with professor Eduard Schmieder,
the violist of the American Quartet, Daniel Avshalomov, and a Grammy-award winning artist,
Professor Lambert Orkis.  Ms. Shagidullina holds a Doctoral degree in Musical Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia
PA.