Aida Shabuová

Biography

“My earliest memory of a melody is my parents playing a Beeethoven violin sonata.”

Aida Shabuová comes from a musical family. “My earliest memory of a melody is my parents playing a Beeethoven violin sonata”, recalls the violinist who began playing at the age of five, first under the guidance of her father, then under the violin teacher Bedřich Čapek. She studied at the Prague Conservatoire in the studio of Professor František Pospíšil. She then studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under the first violinist of the Smetana Quartet Jiří Novák and at Ohio University under Howard Beebe.

“I have listened to and admired the Czech Philharmonia since I was a child. In 1999, when I joined the orchestra, I was the third woman in the string section”, she says, recalling her journey to the orchestra. In the field of chamber music, her collaborators have included members of the philharmonic orchestras of Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. She loves the music of Johannes Brahmse and admires the violinists Henryk Szeryng and Davida Oistrakh. “I also enjoy spending my free time outdoors in northern Bohemia”, she adds.