Important

2025
New Highlight

October 2025
Congratulations from YouTube to Ursula Bagdasarjanz's YouTube and YouTube Premium channels on reaching 3,000 hours of listening and viewing.

June 2025

Ursula Bagdasarjanz - Luciano Sgrizzi play Nardini
This video, which is popular since many years, shows the connection between music and painting in a deeply felt way.

May 2025
Trevendson Duo Pamela Rosenfeld and Sally Pearson will perform their new repertoire at St Elwyn's Diocese in Hayle on Tuesday 22 May.
Their musical selections include works by Georg Friederich Händel, Felix Mendelssohn, Moritz Moszkowski, Ursula Bagdasarjanz, Pietro Nardini, Dmitri Shostakovitch and Scott Joplin.

February 2025
Ursula Bagdasarjanz's publications can also be found in the library of the Basel University of Music.

Highlights 2024

October 2024
SRF Kultur Klassiktelefon on 03.10.2024
Ursula Bagdasarjanz, violin, plays the requested Andante from the Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV 1003: III. Andante by Johann Sebastian Bach on the proposed Day of German Unity.

August 2024
To be seen on YouTube Premium from 13/08/2024:

Highlights 2023

December 2023
Klassiktelefon srf2 Kultur ,1.12.2023. Ursula Bagdasarjanz, violin and Luciano Sgrizzi, piano play the requested Allegro con fuoco from the Violin Sonata in D major by Nardini.

October 2023
Ursula Bagdasarjanz now on YouTube Music and YouTube Premium

August 2023
The compositions 'Berceuse' and 'Gipsy Romance' by Ursula Bagdasarjanz were performed on 10th August 2023 at 12:30 PM at St Elwyn's Church, Hayle by the Trevenson Duo (Violin: Pamela Rosenfeld, Piano: Sally Pearson).

May 2023
The compositions 'Berceuse' and 'Gipsy Romance' by Ursula Bagdasarjanz were performed on 20 May 2023 at 12 noon at King Charles The Martyr Church, Falmouth by the Trevenson Duo (Violin: Pamela Rosenfeld, Piano: Sally Pearson).

April 2023
The Summer Concert Season in Cornwall is now approaching. The Churches have prepared their Programmes, and the Trevenson Duo - Pamela Rosenfeld and Sally Pearson, will be performing a programme for the Lunchtime Concerts in both St. Elwyn's Church, Hayle, and in King Charles the Martyr in Falmouth.
The music to be played will include works by Haydn, Schubert, Kreisler, Tchaikovsky, and will feature "Berceuse" and "Gipsy Romance" by Ursula Bagdasarjanz.
"Gipsy Romance" will also be performed at Morvah Church during the Summer Evensong Series.

Highlights 2022

November 2022
Morvah Church in Cornwall held its Sunday Rememberance Day Service at 9.30 on November 13th 2022, with musicians Pamela Rosenfeld and Sally Pearson. The meditation for the Act of Rememberance was the performance of Elgar’s “Sospiri” written for those who were terribly injured or lost their lives in World War 1, and also “Berceuse” by Ursula Bagdasarjanz-music written for difficult and challenging times. The Service also commemorated the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

July 2022
International recognition:
Ursula Bagdasarjanz named in Bavo's list of the world's best violinists.

Highlights 2021

March 2021
New article from a well-known daily newspaper from Zurich, 2 March 2021.
Violinist from Herrliberg "Music is the breath that phrases my life".
©Zürichsee-Zeitung 2021

Januar 2021
«Ursula Bagdasarjanz in America», article by Ms Katrin Spelinova,
Editor-in-Chief of the Schweizer Musikzeitung

Highlights 2020

December 2020
Ursula Bagdasarjanz now in the UMCK University Libraries:

30. June 2020
Ursula Bagdasarjanz 86th birthday special:
Happy birthday Ursula !!! Beside to enjoy, I may wish for people to be learn from & to be inspired by. Just listen to that legato bow skill !!!
Glazunov: Violin concerto

Please type in your computer: kzsulive.stanford.edu
This on Sundays 7 PM - 9 PM (PDT), which may well be early Monday morning in Switzerland.

16. February 2020
Ursula Bagdasarjanz honored by the "Tribute Music Treasury Show" of Stanford University «please click here».

Highlights 2019

7. September 2019
Ursula Bagdasarjanz, featured in «Who is popular today».

30. June 2019
Ursula Bagdasarjanz 85th birthday special:
With the approval of my friend Ursula we have chosen for the Schoeck concerto as this rendition sets not only the standard for the concerto very high it is unsurpassed till this day and not likely to be surpassed any day soon. Just listen to the warm legato sound.
Schoeck: Violin Concerto Op.21

January 2019

Ursula Bagdasarjanz, presents Caprice,
her 45th video on Youtube

Highlights 2018

October 2018
Classical music
Ursula Bagdasarjanz has been ranked
in the top 50 by www.xiami.com

August 2018
New: Ursula Bagdasarjanz with her five CDs by Disques VDE-GALLO: sunrisemusic.com
in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China

Example – Classical

March 2018
28. March 2018, NACHLESE "Diskothek"

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February 2018
Ursula Bagdasarjanz on Kultur2, broadcast station Radio SRF
Diskothek: Othmar Schoeck: sonata for violin and piano op. 46
Monday 5 February 2018 and Saturday 10 February 2018

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January 2018
Exhibition Farbklänge – Klangfarben



An international artistic cooperation, which also finds its expression in the common You Tube videos of the violinist Ursula Bagdasarjanz, Switzerland, and the artist Ian Barton Stewart, Australia.

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January 2017
Ursula Bagdasarjanz featured in the Herrliberg calendar

The Language of Passion.
Ursula Bagdasarjanz and the Violin.

Please click here
or here for Wikipedia

2013-2017

Radio stations worldwide that have confirmed airplay

Ursula Bagdasarjanz, CD Vol. 1 (Bach, Nardini, Mozart, Bartók)
List of radio stations (PDF)

Ursula Bagdasarjanz, CD Vol. 2 (Othmar Schoeck)
List of radio stations (PDF)

Ursula Bagdasarjanz, CD Vol. 3 (Schoeck, Glasunow)
List of radio stations (PDF)

Ursula Bagdasarjanz, CD Vol. 4 (Sept Poésies)
List of radio stations (PDF)

Ursula Bagdasarjanz, CD Vol. 5 (Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms)
List of radio stations (PDF)

We got your CD's. We loved them all. Ursula's violin sounds beautifully as we already knew ... aired by our producer Paulo Alves Guerra (he is the presenter of the morning show between 7:00AM and 10:00AM at weekdays).
Antena 2 / Lisbon, Portugal

Conservatoire National de Musique Paris
Premier Prix de Violon, July 10th 1956

Ursula Bagdasarjanz around 1958

Ursula Bagdasarjanz 1958 after a concert

Ursula Bagdasarjanz, 1969

THE DEBUT OF A GREAT CAREER
Excerpts from the press 1957-59

Au temple de la Madeleine, Genève: BACH, BUXTEHUDE, HAENDEL Quant à Mlle Ursula Bagdasarjanz, elle fut la révélation de la soirée... Justesse sans défaut, vigueur admirable de l'archet, souplesse de tous les instants, enfin un sens évident de l'architecture et de la composition: volià quelques-uns des atouts qui permirent à Mlle Bagdasarjanz de remporter un succès éclatant. Lang. – La Tribune de Genève, 26. XII. 1957

Eine stets reine, volle Tongebung, eine äusserst geschmeidige Bogenführung, dazu eine wohltuende Sicherheit und Ruhe, ein hohes Mass starker Einfühlungsgabe und echte Musikalität haben nicht nur auf mich, sondern auch auf die grosse Zuhörerschar stärksten Eindruck gemacht. Prof. Dr. W. Tappolet, Professeur à l'Université de Genève, 10. I. 1958

Tonhalle, Zürich: Im Vortrag der SYMPHONIE ESPAGNOLE von LALO zeigte Ursula Bagdasarjanz bemerkenswerte Virtuosität und prächtiges musikalisches Temperament, so dass man die vielversprechende Künstlerin zum besten schweizerischen Nachwuchs wird zählen dürfen... -id- Die Tat, Zürich 19. III. 1957

Stadthaus Winterthur: Violinkonzert von ALEXANDER GLASUNOW, a-Moll: ...mit erstaunlicher Sicherheit im Technischen wie Musikalischen wusste Ursula Bagdasarjanz das Werk zu interpretieren. G.H.S. – Neues Winterthurer Tagblatt, 3. II. 1958

...Kräftiger Bogenstrich, saubere Passagen, reine Intonation auch in den hohen Lagen kamen dem virtuosen Zuschnitt der Randteile ebenso entgegen wie der tragfähige Ton und das expressive Vibrato dem von slawischer Gefühlssattheit geprägten ruhigen Mittelteil... E.N. – Der Landbote, Winterthur, 1. II. 1958

Schoeck-Müller Festival, Uster: ...Eine bemerkenswerte Leistung vollbrachte Bagdasarjanz mit SCHOECKS Violinkonzert in B. Es verlangt vom Solisten eine reiche Palette wohl abgestufter Farbtöne, welche die Violinistin fühlbar besitzt... -niK- Anzeiger von Uster, 18. XI. 1958

...unsäglich zart und schmelzend legte sie die Pianopartien hin, aufwühlend und hart die Forti und Fortissimi... R.W. – Oberländer Spiegel, 17. XI. 1958

Tonhalle St.Gallen: ...Den unstreitbaren Höhepunkt des Abends bildete das vielgehörte Violinkonzert in D-dur (KV 218) von W.A. MOZART. ...Ursula Bagdasarjanz überraschte durch ihr hinreissendes, musikalisches Temperament, den edlen Saitenklang und ihre staunenswerte sichere Virtuosität in hohem Masse... he. – Die Ostschweiz, 8. IX. 1959

...Im straffen Allegro... zeigte die Solistin grosse technische Sicherheit, tragenden Ton, Temperament und Ausdruckskraft... Die Kadenz zeigte wie schon die des ersten Satzes technische Vollendung... H.G. – St.Galler Tagblatt, 8. IX. 1959

NARDINI, BACH, SCHOECK, BARTOK, FAURE, PAGANINI En el Ateneo Cientifico, Literario y Artistico: ...es ya una realidad, pues posee además de una posición irreprochable, un conocimiento vastisimo del dificil instrumento que, merced a la habilidad de sus manos de hada, sabe sacar sonoridades estupendas... -S. – Mahón, 19. XI. 1959

...oyendo a Ursula Bagdasarjanz dominando con absoluta fuerza y emoción interpretativa y nervio, unido de continuo a una gran sensibilidad artistica... Rosa Ten. – Sabadell, 3. XII. 1959

2010

2012

2013

It was in 2008 that the Swiss Label Gallo originally released four volumes of recordings by the violinist Ursula Bagdasarjanz. Last year saw the release of volume 5 which contains works by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Under review here is volume 1 which, I presume, has been re-released. When the first four volumes surfaced five years ago, I acquired volumes 2 and 3 which contain the violin sonatas and concerto of Othmar Schoeck, the sonatas being accompanied by the composer’s daughter Gisela. Some time ago, I heard on the radio a recording of Schoek’s Violin Concerto performed by the Hungarian violinist Stefi Geyer and, as it was a work I was unfamiliar with yet enjoyed immensely, I decided to explore the Bagdasarjanz recording (review); I never looked back.

She was born in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1934, to a mother who was a violinist of some stature, and a father who was born in Romania, hence the name Bagdasarjanz. Giving her first concert at the age of ten, she went on to study with Aida Sticki (who later taught Anne-Sophie Mutter), with Marcel Reynal at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where she won a first prize, and with Sandor Vegh in Basel. She later attended master-classes with Max Rostal, who had been a pupil of the great violin pedagogue Carl Flesch. An international career as a soloist and chamber musician lay ahead of her.

Bagdasarjanz’s playing is both highly polished and refined. Intonation is always pristine. This is especially evident in the Bach unaccompanied sonata, where the violin writing is very exposed. There is clarity of line in the contrapuntal passages of the fugue. Double-stops ring out with vibrancy. At all times the playing is technically secure, with a wonderful sense of phrasing. The Nardini Sonata is the only work in the programme that I am not familiar with. It’s an absolute delight, giving the violinist the opportunity to display her silvery, warm tone especially in the gorgeous Larghetto. The Rondo of the Mozart Sonata has, for some strange reason, been divided into two tracks, quite bizarre! In the Bartók Rhapsody, Bagdasarjanz utilizes an array of violinistic effects to project the music, and successfully captures the Hungarian gypsy folk idiom. Her vibrato, though quite fast, is never one-dimensional. She is able to use it to display a wide range of tonal colour. Her sound is never monochrome.

Biographical information in the booklet notes appears to be the same as that in Wikipedia. From what I can gather from the notes, which seem to be identical, at least in the three volumes I have, these are re-mastered radio and live recordings published by the violinist herself upon her retirement as an international soloist. It appears that she still continues to teach. I have not been able to discover whether or not she made any studio recordings. However, to violin enthusiasts like myself, what little we have of her on CD deserves a place on the shelves alongside other great female violinists like Erica Morini, Johanna Martzy, Michele Auclair, Camilla Wicks, Ginette Neveu, Ida Haendel and Wanda Wilkomirska. The list goes on.

Stephen Greenbank

Ursula Bagdasarjanz, violin, special Tribute Music Treasury Show, DJ: Glemco, Stanford University, CA, Thursday, 22 August 2013 8pm-10pm

Handel: Violin Sonata in F Major (album: Ursula Bagdasarjanz: Sept Poesies, Gallo)
Bartók: First Rhapsody for Violin and Piano (album: Ursula Bagdasarjanz violin, Gallo)
Ursula Bagdasarjanz: 3 Pieces (album: Ursula Bagdasarjanz: Sept Poesies, Gallo)
Bach: Solo Sonata in A Minor, BWV 1003 (album: Ursula Bagdasarjanz violin, Gallo)
Nardini: Violin Sonata in D Major (album: Ursula Bagdasarjanz violin, Gallo)
Mozart:Violin Sonata in G Major, K. 301, excerpt (album: Ursula Bagdasarjanz violin, Gallo)
Schoeck: Violin Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 21 (album: Ursula Bagdasarjanz violin, Gallo)

Ursula Bagdasarjanz - Volume 4
Ursula BAGDASARJANZ (b.1934)

Sept Poesies pour Violon et Piano:
Berceuse in C minor [3:26]2
Dracula in F major [2:51]2
Gipsy-Romance in B minor [5:05]2
Caprice in B minor [4:51]2
Joie de vivre in G major [3:47]2
Reverie in B minor [3:35]2
Introduction et petite Valse des Alpes in G major [3:28]2
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
Sonata in B flat major for violin and piano K.378: Allegro moderato [9:04]1,3
George Frederick HANDEL (1685-1759)
Sonata in F major for violin and piano [11:26]1,4
Pietro NARDINI (1722-1793)
Sonata in D major for violin and piano: Adagio [2:14]1,5
Niccolo PAGANINI (1782-1840)
Sonata No. 12 for violin and piano Op.3 [3:59]1,4
Ursula Bagdasarjanz (violin)1
Melanie Di Christino (violin)2; Raluca Stirbat (piano)2; Fernane Kaeser (piano)3; Bruno F. Saladin (piano)4; Luciano Sgrizzi (piano)5
rec. Soundville Recording Studios, Lucerne, 7 November 2007
rec. 1969 (Mozart ); 1964, live (Handel); 1960 (Nardini); 1964, live (Paganini)
GALLO CD-1251 [54:46]

In 2008 the Swiss Label Gallo released four volumes of recordings by the violinist Ursula Bagdasarjanz. Last year saw the release of volume 5 which contains works by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. The discs are resurfacing, and I was pleased to be given the opportunity to review volume 4 as a few months ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing volume 1

Being familiar with all the other volumes, which have formed a very welcome part of my collection, this one seemed to have slipped my attention first time around.

Born in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1934 to a mother who was a violinist of some stature and a Romanian father, Ursula gave her first concert at the age of ten. She went on to study with Aida Stucki, Marcel Reynal and with Sandor Vegh in Basel. She later attended master-classes with Max Rostal, who had been a pupil of the great violin pedagogue Carl Flesch.

Interspersed throughout the CD are Bagdasarjanz’s own ‘Sept poesies pour violon et piano’, described in the booklet notes as ‘Seven romantic violin encores’, with piano parts composed by Brigitta Meister. They were recorded in 2008 by the violinist Melanie Di Cristino, and accompanied by Raluca Stirbat (piano). The first piece, Berceuse in c minor is a simple melodious work, characterized by expressive lyricism yet with an underlying melancholy. This is followed by Dracula, a piece guaranteed to make the listener sit up and take notice. Jaunty and astringent, the sounds emanating from the violin have a Mephistophelian character, over an ostinato bass. Gipsy Romance is, as it’s title suggests, romantic and rhapsodic, interrupted twice by a Hungarian dance-like section. Caprice, with its recitative section is very much cloaked in Paganiniana. Joie de Vivre is bright, cheerful and exuberant. I detected some echoes of Wieniawski. Reverie is effusive and charming. The final piece Introduction et petite Valse des Alpes in G major has a declamatory opening followed by a melody closely resembling Paganini’s ‘Carnival of Venice’.

It is disappointing that, apart from the Handel Sonata and the very short Paganini Sonata, we are only given one movement from the Mozart and Nardini works. These two isolated movements are to be found in their full versions in Volume One. I would like to have heard more of Bagdasarjanz’s playing than is offered on this CD. Nevertheless, what we have here gives one a general idea of the qualities which distinguish her playing. All the elements are there: faultless intonation, beauty of sound, expressive phrasing and wonderful dynamic control. Her vibrato is varied, and furnishes her sound with a tonal opulence. Most of all, however, her playing has a wonderful sense of line.

Melanie Di Cristino and Raluca Stirbat play the Bagdasarjanz items with great commitment, and the recorded sound is second to none. The tracks featuring Bagdasarjanz, are re-mastered recordings from the 1960s, and are very well reproduced.

Stephen Greenbank

04.03.2013
The Guardian – The Kreutzer Sonata: did the critics play fair?
Ursula Bagdasarjanz plays Beethoven Kreutzer Sonata
©The Guardian / wn.com

23.03.2013
Radio broadcast - Great Interpretations: Aus der Wiege auf die Bühne
Swiss Radio DRS2, March 23th 2013, 16.00-17.00 Uhr
Ursula Bagdasarjanz, violinist; Patricia Moreno, Producer
from Gallo CD 1248, Bartók and Nardini
from Gallo CD 1250, Schoeck Violin concerto

22.08.2013
Ursula Bagdasarjanz, violin, special Tribute Music Treasury Show, DJ: Glemco,
Stanford University,CA, Thursday, 22 August 2013 8pm-10pm

Programme (PDF)

2014

26.01.2014
2014, Radio SRF 2 Kultur, Parlando, 26 Januar 2014, 16h03

18.09.2014
Klassika Radio, Tallinn

Ursula Bagdasarjanz also present on Radio Klassika, Tallinn.
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2015

18.05.2015
New : Available at the Vera Oeri Bibliothek in Basel...

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1.09.2015
New : the three publications are also available at the library of the Zurich University of the Arts

Zurich University of the Arts, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich, miz.zhdk.ch

20.11.2015
New : available in the Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern

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15.12.2015
URSULA BAGDASARJANZ, international presence 2015

According to SUISA, list of works, Zurich, december 2015
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2016

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02.05.2016
Ursula Bagdasarjanz's Violin technic is in the "Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung Trossingen" available.

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05.07.2016
Ursula Bagdasarjanz in the Swiss Musical review

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17.08.2016
Ursula Bagdasarjanz in the Swiss broadcoast station Klassiktelefon SWR2

Othmar Schoeck Sonate in D major op.16 for violin and piano
Ursula Bagdasarjanz, violin
Gisela Schoeck, piano
from CD vol.2-1249, GALLO

2017

Ursula Bagdasarjanz, Klassiktelefon WDR 3: Lieblingsstücke

Bela Bartók 1. Rhapsodie
Ursula Bagdasarjanz, violin
Fernande Kaeser, piano
from CD vol.1-1248, GALLO

Ursula Bagdasarjanz's CD

now available in the webshop Thalia.de
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Ursula Bagdasarjanz's CD

available too in the webshop weltbild.ch
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Ursula Bagdasarjanz featured in the Herrliberg calendar

The Language of Passion.
Ursula Bagdasarjanz and the Violin.

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or here for Wikipedia

Concertzender Niederland
Ursula Bagdasarjanz hear playing on conzertzender.nl

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Ursula Bagdasarjanz at Kunzelmann Editions
Ursula Bagdasarjanz's publications available at Kunzelmann Editions.

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Ursula Bagdasarjanz at Boosey & Hawkes
Ursula Bagdasarjanz's publications available at Boosey & Hawkes.

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Ursula Bagdasarjanz in The Sydney String Center
Ursula Bagdasarjanz's publications available in The Sydney String Center.

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Ursula Bagdasarjanz in iTunes
Ursula Bagdasarjanz's CD in the Apple-Shop iTunes.

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Ursula Bagdasarjanz in Google Play
Ursula Bagdasarjanz CDs in the Google Play store.

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2018

Classical music
Ursula Bagdasarjanz has been ranked
in the top 50 by www.xiami.com

New also at Disques VDE-GALLO: sunrisemusic.com
in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China

Example – Classical

28. March 2018, NACHLESE "Diskothek"

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Ursula Bagdasarjanz on Kultur2, broadcast station Radio SRF
Diskothek: Othmar Schoeck: sonata for violin and piano op. 46
Monday 5 February 2018 and Saturday 10 February 2018

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Exhibition Farbklänge – Klangfarben



An international artistic cooperation, which also finds its expression in the common You Tube videos of the violinist Ursula Bagdasarjanz, Switzerland, and the artist Ian Barton Stewart, Australia.

Please click here

«MY LOVE OF MUSIC...»
How I make music corresponds to who I am.

This means: singing, creating, and breath-phrasing.

I let the music I am interpreting flow in a broad, generous line, along the same lines of the composition.

I want to feel the immortal resonances of pure music, which are transmitted by me into the infinity of the universe through my instrument as my own profoundly felt interpretation of a work and as my very own musical energy. This energy is ultimately detached and independent of me as I go beyond myself while playing and, as if observing from the outside, can look closely at what is happening.