Alfiya Latypova was born in 1988 in Sochi. She started to play the violin at the age of 5 in the Children’s Music School (Prof. A. Lukiyanenko). At the age of 15, Alfiya moved to Kazan for studying in the Secondary Special Music College (Prof. Vadim Afanasiev). First Prize winner in the 2007 International Music Competition in Bulgaria “Hopes, Talents, Masters,” Alfiya also received top prizes in the Bach Music Competiton 2006 (2nd prize) and the All-Russian Khalida Akhtyamova Competition 2008 (3rd prize).
In 2007 Alfiya became a student of the Kazan State Conservatory where she was a concertmistress of the Kazan Chamber Student Orchestra with its own season series at the Big Concert Hall in Kazan, and toured throughout Russia, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. An active performer in the Republic of Tatarstan and recognized for her talent, Alfiya took part in the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, and beginning in the fall of 2009 she will enter the Boyer College of Music at Temple University in the international class of Professor Eduard Schmieder.
She was selected to participate in the 12th annual iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates in Los Angeles in 2009 and in San Francisco February 2010. In the fall of 2009 she entered the Boyer College of Music at Temple University in the international class of Professor Eduard Schmieder. During this season she has performed numerous outreach performances in Philadelphia.
