Margarita Pochebut – violin

Margarita began her professional journey at the age of six. After only six months of study, she made her debut as a soloist with a symphony orchestra. In the same year, she took part in her first international violin competition and was awarded the Grand Prix. Today, her artistic portfolio includes more than thirty performances with symphony orchestras around the world. Each concert is distinguished by a new and demanding program, through which she reveals deep and diverse musical horizons.

Over the years of her active concert career, Margarita has performed in the most prestigious concert halls of Ukraine, Italy, Austria, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Germany, and China, earning recognition from both audiences and the professional community. She is a laureate of numerous international competitions, where she has repeatedly won top prizes. Margarita has participated in leading international festivals, including Odessa Classics (Ukraine), LvivMozArt (Ukraine), Bellerive Festival (Switzerland), Gstaad Menuhin Festival (Switzerland), ArtDialog (Switzerland), Dvořák Prague (Czech Republic), Toscana Festival (Italy), Rencontres Musicales d’Évian (France), Festival de Pâques (France), and Kulturvereinigung (Austria).

From 2022 to 2024, Margarita studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland in the classes of Renaud Capuçon and Oleh Kaskiv, where she became the youngest student, while simultaneously completing her studies at the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv State Music Lyceum in the class of Associate Professor N. Annenkova. In the autumn of 2024, she was admitted to the bachelor’s program at Mozarteum University Salzburg at the age of 13, becoming the youngest student in the university’s history. She is currently in her second year, studying in the class of the outstanding Austrian violinist Benjamin Schmid.

Among the distinguished musicians with whom Margarita has collaborated are Janine Jansen, Renaud Capuçon, Gábor Takács-Nagy, and Sergey Khachatryan. Since November 2023, she has been playing a violin by Lorenzo Storioni, crafted in Cremona in 1784, kindly provided by the Stretton Society. Margarita has professional recordings with the Deutsche Grammophon label, as well as recordings for Czech National Radio and the National Radio of Ukraine.