Pilar Policano

Pilar Policano was born in Buenos Aires in 2007 and began playing the violin at six in the Orquesta Escuela de Lanús. In Argentina she was taught by Rafael Gintoli. In 2022 she moved with her family to Vienna to continue her training with Boris Kuschnir.

At fourteen she made her debut with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic at the Teatro Colón. Further appearances took her to the KKL Lucerne and Victoria Hall in Geneva. She has performed with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra of the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.

Policano received the Arthur Waser Award in 2025. She also won the Grand Prix at the fifth International Yankelevich Violin Competition and a first prize at Nouvelles Étoiles in Paris in 2022.