Karine Vardanian

Born in Moscow, Russia, in 1996. Form 2016 to 2022 she studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Fundación BBVA Viola Chair with professor Diemut Poppen. In 2019 Her Majesty Queen Sofía handed her the Diploma to the most outstanding student of her chair.

She began her violin studies at the age of seven and changed to viola in 2012, when she entered into the Gnessin State Musical College, Russia, under the guidance of Vernigora Ludmila.

As a student of the School, she has attended masterclasses by Veronika Hagen, Antoine Tamestit, Hariolf Schlichtig, Lawrence Power, Tabea Zimmermann, Ralf Gothóni (groups with piano), and Helena Poggio (string ensembles). She has been a member of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antoni Ros Marbà, Pablo Heras-Casado, Plácido Domingo, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Péter Eötvös and Pablo González; the Freixenet Chamber Orchestra with Sir András Schiff and Andrés Salado, and that of the Sinfonietta with Baldur Brönnimann and Johannes Kalitzke and the Fundación EDP Camerata under the baton of Anne-Sophie Mutter. She has also been part of the Fundación Mahou San Miguel, Banco Activo Universal Esferas, Beethoven and Sibelius ensembles, the Dvorák Trio, the Fundación Mutua Madrileña String Consort, the BBDO Tiempo and Ramales quartets and the Dvořák Quintet.