Ana Chumachenco is an Italian born violinist of Argentinian, Ukrainian, and German descent.

Biography

Ana Chumachenco was born in Padova, Italy, on 23 June 1945. From the age of four, Chumachenco practiced violin under the guidance of her father, a former student of Hungarian

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. She completed her studies in

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under

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and, until the age of 17, lived in

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. In 1963 at the age of 18, she moved to Europe where she would continue her violin studies and, in the same year, won the

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of the Carl Flesch Competition in London. Chumachenco went on to win a

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for her participation in the

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, at the same time taking lessons with

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, and Sandor Vegh. Currently, Chumachenco plays with Oscar Lysy and Walter Notas and is a violin professor at the

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, the

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and she holds master classes at the Music Academ
Accademia Lorenzo Perosi
in

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. She also works as a juror for the

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and the ''Queen Elisabeth Music Competition'' in Belgium. Her brother Nicolas Chumachenco was also a violinist and professor.

Awards

* 1989 Merit Diploma Konex Award * 1999 Platinum

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as the best Bow Instrument Performer of the decade in Argentina * 2007 Cross of the

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References

Living people Academic staff of the Reina Sofía School of Music Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Munich Italian women classical violinists 1945 births 20th-century Italian musicians 20th-century Italian classical violinists 20th-century Italian women musicians 21st-century Italian musicians 21st-century Italian classical violinists 21st-century Italian women musicians Italian people of Argentine descent Italian people of Ukrainian descent Italian people of German descent Musicians from Padua Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Violinist-stub