Ainur Zabenova
- FromAlmaty
- Violin from age seven, Almaty
- Studied with Oleh Krysa at Eastman
- Carnegie Hall, 2003: Vladigerov’s Rhapsody
- Prize at the Oistrakh Competition, Odesa, 2004
- Rochester Philharmonic, 2003–2015
Ainur Zabenova picked up the violin at seven in Almaty, played with the Almaty Philharmonic at twelve, and led Camerata Kazakhstan as concertmaster from 1997 to 2001. At a 2001 competition Oleh Krysa heard her and brought her to Eastman: a full scholarship, then a doctorate (2009). In 2003, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall with Vladigerov’s Rhapsody, the piece Oistrakh played; in 2004, a prize at the Oistrakh Competition in Odesa. From 2003 to 2015 she played in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. After California, in 2020, she moved to Oregon: her own studio in Lake Oswego, Lewis & Clark College, Metropolitan Youth Symphony.
Violin, certified in the Suzuki method; her own studio in Lake Oswego, Lewis & Clark College, Metropolitan Youth Symphony.
Lake Oswego Violin Studio
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