VIOLIN

Tanja Palu, born in 1982, is a finnish violinist, saxophonist and music educator with French roots. She began learning the violin at the age of six and started performing only a year later.

 

Tanja has been giving concerts for more than 20 years all over Europe and since 2010 also in China.

First she studied at Helsinki Conservatory where she graduated in 2006, then continued her studies at Vienna Conservatory where she got her Solo Violin Diploma with honors in 2010 and her Music Pedagogue Diploma in 2013 (major in Classical Violin, minor in Jazz Saxophone).

Tanja Palu is a soloist, a chamber musician and an orchestra musician (Österreichische Symphoniker, Junge Philharmonie Wien,  Tanja Palu is a soloist, a chamber musician and an orchestra musician (Österreichische Symphoniker, Junge Philharmonie Wien,  Modus 21...) and her wide repertoire goes from classical music to pop, jazz, electronic music and improvisation. In 2014 she founded together with Austrian violinist Ismene Weiss the ensemble Modern Sounds Vienna, a young and dynamic formation which is building bridges between classical music and modern elements such as electronic music, jazz, dance and visual elements.