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Albanian violinist

Tedi Papavrami, (born 13 May 1971) is an Albanianviolinist.^[1]

Biography

Papavrami was born in Tirana in 1971 and started to play the violin at the age of four or five.^[2][3] He studied violin with his father, Robert Papavrami.^[2][1] At age 8, he performed Pablo de Sarasate's Airs Bohémiens with the Tirana Philharmonic Orchestra, and three years later performed Paganini's first violin concerto.^[2][3]

In 1982, on the suggestion of flautist Alain Marion, the French government offered Papvrami a scholarship to study at the Conservatoire de Paris under the direction of Pierre Amoyal.^[2][3] In 1985 he won the International Violin Competition Rodolfo Lipizer Prize in Gorizia and in 1986 he won the First Prize of the Conservatory of Paris.^[2][3] In 1987 he received a degree from the Lausanne Conservatory.^[4][5]

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