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Marima Chado

Marima Chado

Violin

Macedonia

Years active: 2020

Marima Chado graduated from the prestigious "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky" Conservatory in Moscow, Russia, under the mentorship of the internationally renowned professors Melnikov and Chugaeva. Since then she has performed extensively as a soloist with philharmonic and chamber orchestras in Moscow, Munich, Belgrade, Skopje, throughout Macedonia, and in Slovenia and Serbia, including appearances at the "Skopje Summer" and "Ohrid Summer" festivals.

Her repertoire includes works from Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart through Tchaikovsky and Brahms, de Falla and Dvořák, and up to Prokofiev and Shostakovich. She spent several years performing with the Chamber Orchestra of Macedonian Radio and Television, where she recorded a number of important works, and later with the orchestra of the Opera at the then Macedonian National Theatre. She is the leader of the chamber ensemble "Skopje Ladies' Orchestra".

She has worked as a violin professor and her students have won state prizes. She has participated in numerous regional seminars led by top pedagogues. An especially significant achievement of her pedagogical work is the curriculum for primary music schools in the Republic of Slovenia, authored by her. She serves on international competition juries and is also a member of the European String Teachers Association (ESTA).

In 2010 she joined Violeta Stefanovska-Šuković at "Pianoforte", where she became a co-owner and founded the Strings Department. Within her work there—besides performing and teaching—she mentors many young professionals who begin their careers as teachers at "Pianoforte".