Alfia Bakieva is a Tatar violinist who currently lives in Salzburg. She is a multi-instrumentalist, especially for folk music, playing violin, folk violin, kylkobiz, ghizzhak and similar instruments. She is a founding member of the folk music ensemble Ekiyat, which centres on Tatar folk traditions.

She studied violin with E. Baskina at the Novosibirsk Specialized Music School and baroque violin with Enrico Onofri (Conservatory of Palermo) and Hiro Kurosaki (Mozarteum University) focusing on Historically Informed Performance Practice in Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire.

From 2004 to 2008 she was the assistant concertmaster and solo violin of musicAeterna of Teodor Currentzis’ Orchestra Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Alfia has received several scholarships, notably from Roman Abramovich and the Shostakovich family, awarded at the VII international competition of D. Shostakovich quartets.

In 2017 she was a finalist of the Ancient Music Competition Brugge and in 2018 won all three prizes for chamber music groups in Göttingen Händel Competition. In 2023 she was nominated for an ‘Addicted to Bach’ prize donated by the family of Nobel Prize winner Günter Blobel.

She also has a passion for tango, and performs with the Argentine Tango Orchestra Rascasuelos directed by renowned composer and bandoneonist Patricio Bonfiglio. They performed together at the 2018 Rock Festival Roskilde in Copenhagen, whose lineup included Dua Lipa, Massive Attack, Gorillaz…

She currently works as soloist, concertmaster and sectional leader with many groups and orchestras, including Il Pomo d’Oro, Ensemble Hemiolia, Dresden Festpiel Orchester, Cappella Mediterranea, and Ensemble Ludovice.

In September 2021, as one of very few musicians, Alfia Bakieva participated in the Jumpstart Jr Auditions in Amsterdam. She was awarded a Francesco Ruggeri violin for seven years, built in 1680 in Cremona, Italy.