Andrea Gajic began her musical training at St Mary’s Music

School, Edinburgh. Aged 12, she performed Bruch’s Scottish

Fantasy at St James’s Palace in London for Yehudi Menuhin’s

60th birthday celebration. Two years later, she was invited by

Sylvia Rosenberg to study with her at the Peabody Institute,

Baltimore, where she won first prize in the American String

Teachers Association Violin Competition.

Between 1990 and 1995 Andrea studied with Khalida Akhtiamova

in Moscow at the Russian Gnesins Academy of Music, gaining her

Masters Degree and Diploma in Solo Performance. She

subsequently pursued postgraduate study with Felix Andrievsky at

the Royal College of Music in London.

Throughout her studies Andrea received generous financial

assistance from the Scottish International Education Trust, the

Martin Trust and the Caird Trust.

Andrea has performed as soloist in the UK, the United States of

America, Russia, Lithuania, Finland, Germany and France and regularly gives

recitals and masterclasses in Serbia. She has recorded for BBC, STV, Bavarian

Radio, Lithuanian Radio, Baltimore Radio and Serbian Radio and Television.

Recent concerto appearances have included Brahms, Bruch, Prokofiev and

Sibelius and she performed in a concert celebrating the birthdays of Sir Peter

Maxwell Davies and James MacMillan. She has played with the Fibonacci

Sequence in London and has worked with Felix Andrievsky, Khalida Akhtiamova,

Victor Pikaizen, Sylvia Rosenberg and Maya Glazarova.

Andrea taught violin at the Menuhin School, Surrey, and currently teaches violin at

the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Music School of Douglas Academy in

Glasgow and St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh.  Pop culture icon, Madonna, is

one of Andrea’s past violin pupils.

Andrea plays on a violin made by Nicolaus Gagliano in 1766.

..."natural to the last wisp of sound"

The Scotsman

..."reward for a rare talent"

The Herald