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Violinist Anna Elashvili has given solo and chamber music performances in the United States, Europe and Israel including concerts in Carnegie's Zankel and Weill Hall, Stadttheater Lindau and Mann Auditorium. She has performed solo with Maxim Vengerov and has collaborated with renowned artists such as Peter Serkin, Lynn Harrell, Donald Weilerstein, The Peabody Trio and Roger Tapping at the Bargemusic, Aspen, Yellow Barn, Prussia Cove, The Walden School and Monadnock Music Festivals. 

In 2006 Ms. Elashvili was nominated to be a fellow at The Academy, A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute.  Through this program she performed in chamber music concerts regularly at Carnegie Hall and taught violin at PS14Q.  She is a core member and rotating concertmaster of the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC) and assistant concertmaster of the Brooklyn Philharmonic.  This past year, she has also performed as concertmaster with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Phoenix Symphony and the Colorado Music Festival Chamber Orchestra under Maestro Michael Christie.  Ms. Elashvili has also ventured outside the classical world, playing in Hector Del Curto's Eternal Tango Orchestra.

As the founder of the Fountain Chamber Music Society and former member of the Fountain Ensemble, she has performed around the country and was a prizewinner of several international competitions.  Ms. Elashvili served as concertmaster under James Levine, Claudio Abbado, and Andre Previn of the UBS Verbier Chamber and Festival Orchestras, and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. 

Since 2002 Ms. Elashvili has been on the violin and chamber music faculty at the Third Street Music School Settlement in Manhattan. During the summers she has taught at the Young Artists Chamber Music Intensive Program at Yellow Barn, the Third Street School and the Ogontz Suzuki Camp.

She received her Bachelors and Masters Degree by 2001 from The Juilliard School as a student of Masao Kawasaki and Joel Smirnoff.   In 1995, she graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts and Peabody Preparatory's Arts for Talented Youth program, where she studied violin and chamber music with Violaine Melançon, Klara Berkovich and the Peabody Trio, as well as, composition and dance.

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