The Italian violinist receives €5,000, awarded to gifted young musicians with a high profile in chamber music
The Italian violinist Giulia Rimonda has been announced as the recipient of the 2026 Villa Musica Star Award. The award is endowed with €5,000 and is given to an outstanding scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Foundation, which operates in Mainz, Germany.
Rimonda will receive the prize during a concert in Berlin on 24 November 2026.
’Giulia Rimonda is a fascinating violinist,’ says Ervis Gega, artistic director of Villa Musica. ’I have been witnessing her extraordinary talent both while playing alongside her and while listening. She always places her meticulous technical mastery at the service of the highest expressiveness.
’Through her elegance and her eloquent playing she conveys an impression of absolute authenticity. She has something deeply personal to say about every piece she performs and leaves a lasting impression of utterly remarkable maturity.’
Born in Turin in 2002, Rimonda began studying the violin at the age of four with her father. At 17, she completed her pre-college studies with distinction while simultaneously studying with Pavel Berman at the Accademia Perosi Foundation in Biella, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and the Accademia Stauffer in Cremona with Salvatore Accardo.
Since 2022, she has studied with Boris Garlitsky in Paris and was a scholarship holder at the Maison de l’Italie from 2022 to 2024. In June 2024, she was admitted to the soloist diploma program in the class of Sergey Khachatryan at the Karlsruhe University of Music.
She has performed with numerous orchestras in venues including Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome ad Teatro dei Rozzi in Siena. She was artist in residence of the Società dei Concerti di Milano and received the Giovanna Maniezzo Prize of the Accademia Chigiana.
As winner of the 2022 Roscini-Padalino Prize of the Perugia Musica Classica Foundation and scholarship holder of the Settimane del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, she was recently selected by the Accademia Chigiana and CIDIM for the project ’Italian Musical Talents in the World’.
She has been a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz Foundation since 2024.
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