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About

I’m half Croatian, half German, living in Wales (the land of song) and music has always been part of my life. As a toddler I was desperate to reach up to the dizzying height of my father’s violin and was taken to lessons from the age of 3. I grew up playing chamber music, orchestras and the occasional solo concert. I didn’t know how fortunate I was.

I chose not to study at music college, believing the pressure of earning a living from music would take away the joy of playing. In 2013 in a kind of pre-mid-life crisis I resigned from a good job in finance and escaped to South America for 6 months where I realised that music was a gift I’d been squandering. I set up as Xenia Violin on my return and have been performing and recording ever since.

In the last couple of years I have been lucky enough to take lessons from gypsy jazz masters Tim Kliphuis, Christiaan van Hemert and Tcha Limberger.