Veriko Tchumburidze

Veriko Tchumburidze — Biography

Veriko Tchumburidze is a violinist born in Adana into a Georgian family of musicians. In 2016, at only 20, she made her name internationally by winning the 15th Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, held every four years in Poznań, Poland. Since then she has worked as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist; in November 2025 she played Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra.

She began the violin at three and a half with her mother and became a pupil of Selahattin Yunkuş at the Mersin University State Conservatory, winning the 2004 Gülden Turalı National Violin Competition and the 2006 Georgian National Competition. With a scholarship from the Pekinel Sisters' Young Musicians on World Stages project she studied in Vienna with Dora Schwarzberg and, from 2015, in Munich in Ana Chumachenco's class. In 2012 she won first prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Switzerland and in 2013 Andante magazine's Best Emerging Musician award. In 2015 she became the first musician selected from Turkey for the Tchaikovsky Competition. In 2016 she won the right to play an 1756 Guadagnini violin from the German Stiftung Musikleben and took first prize with Trio Arte at the Pietro Argento Competition.

After the Wieniawski win she appeared with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony, the Cape Town Philharmonic and Sinfonia Varsovia, and worked with conductors such as Sascha Goetzel and Gemma New. In 2017 she was named String Instrument Performer of the Year at the Donizetti Awards. She recorded Antonín Vranický's Violin Concerto in C for Sony Classical and the music from Schindler's List for Klanglogo. She also received the Aydın Gün Encouragement Award.