Raisa Mussakhajayeva

Raisa Mussakhajayeva graduated with High Honors from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in 1980, where she studied with Professor Michael Vaiman and Michael Belyakov. Ms. Mussakhajayeva has been teaching violin very successfully for the past 28 years, and specializes in students starting from the age of 5 through graduate level. She gives her students the best of the Russian Violin School tradition, superior technical skills, beautiful violin sound and very interesting score interpretation. Among her students there are winners of National and International Competitions, such as the Michaelangelo Abbado International Competition (Italy), Franz Schubert International Competition (Italy), A. Yampolsky International Competition (Russia), Rovero d’Oro (Italy), etc. Many of her students are members of State Orchestras of Kazakhstan. Some students went on to study further at Universities in the United States and Europe. Ms. Mussakhajayeva is a professor of violin at the Kazakh National University of Arts and serves as the Vice-President at the Kazakh National Academy of Music (KazNAM) in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan. Ms. Mussakhajayeva gives master classes at the International Music Festivals in Italy, Austria, Germany, France, and Russia. She frequently serves as a jury member in the International Competitions.