Beatrice Colombis
Violin
Beatrice Colombis, 23, is an Italian-Australian violinist who is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Professor Suyeon Kang. In 2024 she completed her Bachelor Degree of Music Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music studying with Professor Goetz Richter. She began her studies at the age of 3 with renowned teacher of the Suzuki Method, Yasuki Nakamura.
Beatrice is the first prize winner of the 2026 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand. She was also awarded the audience prize, the prize for the commissioned work and the Sheila Smith prize three-year loan of a Domenico Montagnana violin from Rare Violins New York. She has been a prize winner in several Australian competitions, including the 2nd prize in the Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship (2025), and the 1st and audience prizes at the Kendall National Violin Competition (2023).
Beatrice enjoys having a varied musical career. She has a particular love of chamber music that stems from her involvement from a young age in a small music workshop run by her family in Pittwater, close to Sydney. Beatrice, her brother and two cousins were the inaugural winners of Musica Viva Australia’s Strike a Chord competition in 2020, performing as the Cousin Quartet. Since then, she has performed and travelled with various string quartets, including as guest violinist in the Alma Moodie Quartet at Adelaide Festival in Ukaria (2026). In 2024 her quartet Elvina gave their debut recital in Melbourne after returning from a residency in Munich with the Schumann Quartet.
Beatrice was an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2023 and 2024. She performs casually with the ACO and Mahler Chamber Orchestra and was selected for the Gustav Mahler Academy in Bolzano in 2025/26.