Resume
Rafailia Kapsokavadi, Violin
(704) 808-9203• rafkapsokav@gmail.com
Educational background
Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance (expected graduation, May 2020)
Lykeion of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece, high school diploma, honors (September 2013-May 2016)
August 2016-May 2020 Appalachian State University, the Hayes School of Music, Bachelor of Music Performance
Foreign Languages: Mother-tongue Modern Greek, Proficiency Ancient Greek and Latin,
English, French literacy
Principal Violin Teachers:
Dr. Nancy Bargerstock Professor of Violin, ASU, 2016-Present
Mr. David Russell Professor of Violin, UNC-Charlotte, summer of 2017
Mr. Omiros Yiavroumis Professor of Violin, Greek State Conservatory
2009-2016
Dr. Timos Papatzikis Professor of Violin, Odeion of Kalamaria, Greece 2006-2009
Musical experience:
Rafailia has toured Northern Europe in June and July of 2018 for 2 weeks, playing solo concerts in Stockholm, Finland and Estonia. -July 20-August 1, 2018.
Solo concerts in Eastern Music Festival 2019, Tallinn Philharmonia, Principal second violin 2018
Rafailia has played with the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra under the baton of the acclaimed Gerard Schwartz (July 28, 2019)
Rafailia has performed with other young artists in DiMenna Center and Rose Studio(Juilliard School) at Lincoln Center in NYC, August 2019. She performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto mvt. I in the Final Academy Artists' Concert with London pianist, Joyce Chiao Yu Wu- August 3, 2019
1st violinist: Western Piedmont Symphony (Fall 2017-Fall 2018), Johnson City Symphony Orchestra (Fall 2016-Spring 2018).
Principal second violin: Appalachian Symphony Orchestra (Fall 2017-Spring 2018), Appalachian Opera Orchestra (same dates), North Carolina Symphony side-by-side
Private Violin Instructor: Violin (ages 9-15) (Spring 2017-present)
Masterclass with violinist at the DePaul School of Music in Chicago, Janet Sung, masterclass with internationally acclaimed pedagogue David Russell (2018-2019).
Masterclasses in Europe with violinists Albert Markov, Sergei Stadler, Stanislav Pronin, Anastasia Kozlova, Ivry Gitlis, Alissa Margulis, Jeffrey Multer, Uli Speth, Lucie Robert and masterclasses with the Pacifica Quartet (from June-July 2018).
American String Teachers Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia in March 2018. Masterclasses with Rachel Barton Pine.
Recordings with New York pianist, Alla Milchtein, November 14 2019.
Honors and Activities:
The Hayes School of Music - Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Chancellor's Academic list (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019)
Greek National Diploma-Certificate with honors in violin performance in Thessaloniki at the age of 16 with first prize (May 2016).
The summer of 2019 she has given recitals in New York City in the Opera America Center and Tenri Cultural Center with other acclaimed international artists from New York and Germany. (May 16, 2019)
Mariam Cannon Hayes Young Artist, a four-year scholarship in the Hayes School of Music
American String Teachers Association, 2017-present
Alion Baltic International Music Festival in Estonia the summer of 2018 and studied with scholarship and excellence.
Music Festivals:
Classical Bridge Music Festival in Lincoln Center, New York City with partial scholarship (July -August 2019)
Eastern Music Festival with scholarship in Greensboro (June-July 2019)
The Alion Baltic International Music Festival (summer 2018) with excellence and performances in 3 cities in Northern Europe, Estonia, Finland and Stockholm. (June-July 2018)
The Mountaintop Master Course in New York with Distinguished Violinist David Russell under a scholarship (June-July 2017)
The Port City Music Festival in Wilmington with scholarship (June 2018)
References:
Mr. Uli Speth Professor of Violin in Universitate Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria and Mannes College, New York City
Mannes College of Music, New York spethu@tcnj.edu
Dr. Nancy Bargerstock Professor of Violin, ASU bargrstockne@appstate.edu
Mr. David Russell Anne R. Belk, Distinguished Professor of Violin, UNCC
David.Russell@uncc.edu
Mr. Omiros Yavroumis Professor of Greece State Conservatory, Thessaloniki
oyavis@yahoo.com
Dr. Melisse Brunet Director of Orchestral Activities, Conductor, the Hayes School of Music Conservatoire de Paris- brunetm@appstate.edu
Dr. Christian Baldini Guest Conductor in San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra- christian.baldini@gmail.com