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Violinist Anna Elashvili, hailed as "riveting" by the New York Times, has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in major halls around the world.  She has collaborated with renowned artists such as Lynn Harrell, Dawn Upshaw, and Peter Serkin and performed solo with Maxim Vengerov. 

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, a program for which she is now a fellowship mentor and an active alumna.  As a part of the Academy family, she performed at Carnegie Hall regularly and brought classical music to New York City’s public schools.  As an alumna, she has traveled to Mexico, Germany, Canada and around the United States teaching, mentoring (based on The Academy's methods) and performing.  She will also be going to Iceland and Japan later this year.  

Ms. Elashvili is the first violinist of the Bryant Park Quartet, currently in residence at Stony Brook University’s Community Music Program and performs in the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Carnegie's Zankel Band.   She has appeared as concertmaster with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Phoenix Symphony, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC), and the Colorado Music Festival Chamber Orchestra.  Ms. Elashvili is on faculty at the Third Street Music School Settlement in Manhattan and taught at the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont this past summer. 

As the former member of the Fountain Ensemble and current violinist of the Bryant Park Quartet, she is a prizewinner of several international competitions.  She received her Bachelors and Masters Degree by 2001 from The Juilliard School as a student of Masao Kawasaki and Joel Smirnoff.   In her hometown of Baltimore, 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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