THSO Appoints New Concertmaster Elina Rubio

The Terre Haute Symphony is pleased to announce the appointment of Elina Rubio as Concertmaster beginning with the 2021-2022 season!

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Born in Elche, Spain in 1996, Elina Rubio Pentcheva, received early instruction on the violin from her mother Tania Pentcheva Boneva. At a very young age she began playing concerts in Spain, Bulgaria and Germany. During this period she worked with the Russian violinist Mikhail Bezverhny and with Roberto Valdes (Professor at the Piaget Institute in Portugal)

When she was only nine years old, she won the San Andreu de la Barca Competition in Barcelona as well as many other international competitions in the following years. After attending several international master classes, at age of 13 Elina Rubio started her undergraduate studies as Saxony’s youngest student at Dresden’s “Carl Maria von Weber” School of Music. In 2012 she received a two-year scholarship grant from the Kammermusik am Hochrhein, Gailingen to pursue her studies in Dresden as well as record her debut CD for GENUIN classics with the colaboration of the British pianist Graham Jackson, with which she performs regularly.

Among her concerts she has performed with the MDR Leipzig playing Tschaikovsky's Concerto, Concerto Funebre of Hartmann with the Sinfonia Orchestra in Dresden, Ammandsberg Orchestra and numerous concerts with the Schumen Symphony Orchestra in Bulgaria. She is a regular guest at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid with the Chamber Orchestra "Andres Segovia" in Madrid and participates with the Youth Orchestra of the Generalitat Valenciana, with whom she has played Prokofiev, Brahms, Tschaikovsky, Mozart, Bach and Haydn.

Among her musical experiences she developed also on contemporary music; she has worked with contemporary composers and premiered several works in festivals in Valencia and Dresden, including pieces from Wolfgang Rihm and Francisco Garcia Coll.

She took part in recording the music from the documentary "1980" from the Spanish director Iñaki Arteta and the video recorded by the Technical University of Dresden "Incredibly Exciting - TU Dresden" (which received two international awards).

Always willing to expand her vision on artistic and musical life, Elina participates in numerous International courses, including Kronberg (Germany) and Keshet Eilon (Israel).

She pursued her Master’s degree with the prestigious violinist Ilya Kaler at DePaul University in Chicago. She graduated from her Artist Diploma and Performance Diploma under the guidance of Professor Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University.

In 2019 Elina won prizes at the NSAL Competition (Indiana) and MTNA Competition (Washington).

Her latest debut was at the Musical Arts Center in Bloomington, Indiana, performing the Paganini Violin Concerto under the baton of Maestro Sandmeier.

Elina plays a J.B. Vuillaume violin (1862) generously loaned to her by Mrs. and Mr. Uhlmann from Switzerland.

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