”Anna-Liisa Bezrodny is outstanding – technically brilliant and interpretatively virile. She is no mere performer: she is a real and true musician. Bezrodny’s performance was gripping and assured, over-arching and yet keenly responsive to the flickering shades and shadows of moods. Her playing is impassioned and has a surging pulse. Yet she has a clear head and is capable of coolly calculating her effects without losing spontaneity. When appropriate, she plays at white heat, thrillingly, combined with superb technique »

Jessica Duchen

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (10.9.1981) is Finnish/Estonian violinist who was born into a distinguished family of musicians, and grew up in Finland. She is currently in great demand as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and pedagogue around the world, receiving brilliant and praising critiques of her performances. 

Already at the age of two she began her violin studies with her parents, and at the age of nine she began her studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, in the class of her parents, Prof. Igor Bezrodny and Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny. Her later years 2001-) took her to London, resulting in winning the most prestigious award in Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Gold Medal in 2006, previously won by masters such as Bryn Terfel and Jaqueline du Pre.

Over the years Anna-Liisa has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in the most prestigious concert venues of the world, including Gewandhaus Leipzig, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kölner Philharmonie, Cadogan Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Finlandia Hall, Estonia Hall, St. Petersbugh Philharmonic Hall, Moscow Conservatoire Great Hall, and countless others. Anna-Liisa has worked with outstanding maestros such as Leif Segerstam, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi , Kristjan Järvi, Leonid Grin, Nikolay Alekseyev, Eri Klas, Okko Kamu, Olari Elts, Sian Edwards, Sascha Goetzel, Juha Kangas, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Arvo Volmer, and numerous others.

She has recorded a debut CD on ALBA RECORDS with pianist Ivari Ilja, gaining an extremely praising response from all over the world (works including Elgar Sonata, Sibelius Humoresques, Prokofiev Sonata in D, and Rimsky-Korsakov), Tamberg Violin Concerto with Mihkel Kütson and Vanemuine Orchestra, a DVD for ERP Records “Ad Patrem Meum” including Haydn and Mozart Concertos, and most recently the Mendelssohn Octet with Maxim Vengerov for DECCA Records, as well as the early opus of the Enescu Quintet for Bayerische Rundfunks, with the Sonoro Ensemble.

In season 16/17 Anna-Liisa was awarded an honorary Musician of the Year Award from the Estonian Cultural Foundation, for her internationally prosperous and productive concert-activity.

Anna-Liisa’s playing has been heard on several occasions on Finnish and Estonian National TV´s and National Radio, NBC and BBC Radio 3 in the United Kingdom. The past seasons have taken Anna-Liisa Bezrodny to perform with orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, London, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic,Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Leipzig, MDR Symphonieorkester Leipzig, Estonian National Orchestra, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra,  Riga Symphony Orchestra, Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Vilnius Philarmonic, Pecs Philharmonic, and countless others.

Anna-Liisa is a very devoted chamber musician, partaking in countless festivals around the world, and she has collaborated with some of the most outstanding musicians, for. ex. Ivry Gitlis, Maxim Vengerov, Ida Händel, Liana Isakadze, Alexander Rudin, Mackenzie Melemed, Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Peeter Laul, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Lisa Batiashvili, Sayaka Shoji, Vikingur Olafsson, and many others. Her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music, giving world-premieres to several pieces for ex.by Finnish and Estonian composers, such as Aulis Sallinen , Sebastian Fagerlund, Tõnu Kõrvits, Jaan Rääts, Harri Wessmann, Rein Rannap, Olli Mustonen, Ülo Krigul and others.

Additionally to her busy solo career, Anna-Liisa has taught at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as well as Purcell School in London, and is very passionate about music education for our future generations. She has held masterclasses in Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Finland,Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Russia  and the U.K., and is extremely eager to promote the young generation to involve classical music into their everyday lives. In addition Anna-Liisa is fluent in five languages including  English, Russian, Estonian, Swedish, Finnish and German. 

 Anna-Liisa Bezrodny is the new Artistic Director of the Tallinn Chamber Music Festival, as well as the Guest Concertmaster of the Estonian Sinfonietta. She currently plays on Hieronymus II Amati violin from 1678, kindly on loan from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.