Aisha Dossumova was born in 1980 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She started studying violin in 1987 at K. Baiseitova under Professor Alma Abatova, and from 1998 to 2002 she continued at the Kazakh National Academy of Music from which she graduated under Professor Aiman Mussakhodjayeva. In the USA, Aisha continues her studies in the class of Professor Eduard Schmieder; in 2006 she received an Artist Diploma from the Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, and currently is in the Master Degree Program at Temple University in Philadelphia. In 2002 Aisha won second prize in the Michelangelo Abbado International Violin Competition in Italy, first prize in the Shabyt International Competition in Kazakhstan, and a diploma in the W. A. Mozart International Competition (Austria). From 1998 until 1999 she was a Concertmaster of the Kazakh National Symphony Orchestra and the Kazakh Chamber Orchestra Academy of Soloists from 2000 to 2002. She soloed with the Kazakh National Symphony Orchestra, and with the Academy of Soloists, conducted by Robert Canetti (Israel). Aisha is an avid chamber musician and has also participated in summer festivals at the Mozarteum Summer Academy Salzburg, the Ost-West Musikfest (Austria), Musica in Laguna (Italy), and the International Laureates Festival in Taos, New Mexico and Los Angeles. A member of iPalpiti since 2004, she has performed in Disney Hall in Los Angeles and Carnegie Hall in New York. As a soloist with orchestras and as a recitalist she has performed in Austria, Italy, France, England, Russia and Kazakhstan.
