Biography
Considered one of the up-and-coming violinists of her generation, Lalita Svete is a laureate of several international competitions and was awarded the Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund. The young artist devotes herself with the greatest commitment to a wide-ranging repertoire that encompasses all epochs from baroque to contemporary music. A particular attention is on world premieres of works by her father, the Slovenian composer, Tomaž Svete. Her interpretation of his Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra was a great success in Ljubljana in 2016. Furthermore, recordings of the violinist were broadcast on RTV Slovenia and BBC Radio 3.
Collaborations with orchestras such as the Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of En Shao and the Kiev Camerata have accompanied her musical path. She has performed in renowned concert halls, including the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, ORF Radiokulturhaus, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Malibran, Slovenian Philharmonic and Cankarjev Dom. In the summer of 2020, she made a guest appearance at the Carinthian Summer Festival in Austria.
Lalita Svete comes from a family of musicians and was born in Vienna in 1996. She received her first violin lessons at the age of four at the music school in Maribor, Slovenia. She made her debut in 2007 at the Lent Summer Festival. Same year, the young violinist was part of a concert series with the Zagreb Soloists in Croatia, Liechtenstein, Austria and Slovenia, organised by the “Stiftung Musik & Jugend”.
Svete is currently studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Boris Brovtsyn, where she also obtained her bachelor’s degree with distinction. She received further lessons with Arkadi Winokurow and Lidia Baich. At master classes with Vadim Gluzman and Rachel Podger, the violinist gathered numerous impulses. Since 2019, Svete has been playing on a Giovanni Battista Rogeri violin from 1687, provided to her by a private donor.