Rimma Benyumova new concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Berlin
In June, Prof. Ulf Wallin's master's student won the audition for the position of concertmaster at the Staatskapelle Berlin.
Born in Siberia in 1993, Rimma Benyumova grew up in a musical family and began playing the violin at the age of five. She took lessons from her father in her hometown of Krasnoyarsk and continued her studies in Berlin with Ulf Wallin at the Hanns Eisler School of Music.
Rimma Benyumova has won several international violin competitions, including the Victor Tretyakov Competition, Schoenfeld International String Competition, David Oistrakh and Anton Rubinstein competitions. She has performed as a soloist with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the “I Pomeriggi Musicali” orchestra in Milan, the Philharmonic Orchestras in Opole, Poznan, Krakow, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow “Virtuosi”.
She has given concerts at numerous internationally renowned festivals and in concert halls like the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Moscow Performing Arts Center, the Zaryadye Hall, the Teatro del Vermo in Milan, the Piano Salon Christophori, and the Bellevue Palace in Berlin in honor of the German Federal President Joachim Gauck and many more.
Rimma Benyumova gained further orchestral experience as deputy concertmaster at the Philharmonie Dresden, she was an academist of the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and played in the Russian-German Music Academy under the direction of Valery Gergiev.
During her studies she was a scholarship holder of the AD Infinitum Foundation Berlin, the Oskar and Vera Ritter Foundation Hamburg, the Yamaha Foundation of Europe and received the Deutschlandstipendium, the Moscow Rotary Club Prize and the Ottillie-Selbach-Redslob Foundation scholarship. She is a member of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation.
Rimma Benyumova plays a violin made by Camillus Camilli (Mantua, 1741), which is generously made available to her by a private loan.