‘To tell a story and to move the audience’

This sums up Eva Zavaro’s musical mission. Born into a Franco-Polish family in Paris in 1995, she is one of the most brilliant violinists of her generation. As a passionate player who ‘plays with her heart’ (Ivry Gitlis), she appeared in many countries as soloist or chamber musician, sharing the stage with renowned artists.

After studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (with Roland Daugareil, Suzanne Gessner and Christophe Poiget), she completed her training with Julia Fischer at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Germany.

Eva Zavaro was nominated in the ‘Revelation’ category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2021. In 2018 she won First Prize and the Vadim Repin Prize for best Mozart interpretation at the Johannes Brahms International Competition in Pörtschach, Austria. Among her other distinctions are the Georges Enesco Prize of the SACEM and the ‘Revelation’ Prize of the Fondation Engie (2023).

At the age of fourteen, Eva appeared as soloist at the Salle Pleyel in Paris with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Since then, she has performed with numerous orchestras around the world. She has played Chausson’s Poème and Ravel’s Tzigane at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Alain Altinoglu in the France TV series ‘Fauteuils d’Orchestre’, and has appeared several times with the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn and Fayçal Karoui. In 2019 she made her debut at the Berlin Philharmonie accompanied by the Potsdamer Kammerorchester in concertos by Mozart and Bach. This was followed in March 2021 by her debut at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Orchestre de Paris under Julien Masmondet in a Saint-Saëns programme.

Eva is very committed to the music of her time and has premiered many works, some of which were dedicated to her. She has recorded Pierre Wissmer’s Violin Concerto no.2 with the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alain Pâris.

She is also an enthusiastic interpreter of chamber music and has been a member of the Trio Hélios since 2023.

She has performed at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad (Switzerland), the Festspiele Mecklenbourg-Vorpommern and the Berlin Konzerthaus in Germany, and the Rencontres Musicales d’Évian and Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence in France.

Eva Zavaro plays an Italian violin named ‘Le Bel Inconnu’, a product of the combined artistry of Nicolò Amati and Antonio Stradivari, which is generously loaned to her.