Biography

Amira Abouzahra was born in Germany in 2005 and began her musical journey at the age of four with Alexander Gawrilenko at the Music School of Weinheim. Since 2019, she has been studying violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under the guidance of Prof. Dora Schwarzberg.

She is a scholarship recipient of the Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and regularly participates in the intensive weeks and activities organized by the academy.

Amira has won first prizes at “Jugend Musiziert,” the “International Ilona Fehér Violin Competition,” the “Virtuosos Talent Show Hungary,” the “A. Grumiaux International Violin Competition,” the “International Instrumental and Vocal Performance Contest Oradea,” and the “Stars and Awards Competition,” and she was a prizewinner at the Fritz Kreisler Competition in 2022.

She made her orchestral debut at the age of seven with the Mexico State Symphony Orchestra and has since performed in 18 countries. As a soloist, she has played with orchestras such as the Kremerata Baltica, the Hungarian National Orchestra, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Oradea State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, and many others.

In 2017, she performed Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" at the Berlin Philharmonie, and in 2019, she received an invitation from Plácido Domingo for a joint concert at the Concert House Aarhus in Denmark. This was followed by performances at prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center in New York, Cairo Opera House, Covent Garden in London, Concert House Aarhus, Royal Opera House Muscat, Palace of Arts in Budapest, Budapest Music Center, Expo Milan, Old Parliament House in Singapore, Europe Palace in Strasbourg, and Pearl Tower in Shanghai.

Amira has collaborated with renowned musicians including Mikhail Pletnev, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Kristóf Baráti, István Várdai, Maxim Rysanov, Boris Brovtsyn, and Máté Sucs. Upcoming projects for 2024 include concerts with RSB and Vladimir Jurowski, Concerto Budapest and András Keller, Liszt Chamber Orchestra and István Várdai, as well as invitations to festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Kaposfest in Hungary, and Choriner Musiksommer.

In 2022, she and her sister Mariam were awarded the Career Grant Prize by the Charlotte White Foundation in New York, and in 2024, they received the Talent Prize at the György Cziffra Festival in Budapest. Since 2024, she has been a member of the Career Advancement Program of the Günther-Caspar Foundation.