Patricija Avšič

Patricija Avšič was born in Ljubljana in 2008 and received her first violin lessons from her father at five. She has studied with Boris Kuschnir at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since March 2021 and, since the summer semester of 2022, in the preparatory programme at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

Her competition successes include first prize and two special prizes at the Jenő Hubay Violin Competition in 2021, and first prize and the Grand Prix at the Yankelevich Competition in Omsk in 2022. In 2025 she won first prize in the violin and piano category at the Haydn Competition in Vienna.

As a soloist she has performed with the Slovenian Philharmonic, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra.