Francina Moll Salord

VIOLINIST & EDUCATOR

Violinist Francina Moll Salord graduated at the Royal College of Music in London, where she obtained a Master in Performance with professor Radu Blidar and her Bachelor of Music with professor Natasha Boyarsky. Prior to her studies at the Royal College of Music, Francina was awarded a scholarship to study at The Purcell School of Music in London with Evgeny Grach. She began violin lessons at the age of six at her hometown in Ciutadella de Menorca and at the age of thirteen years old she studied at the Oriol Martorell Music Centre in Barcelona. Francina was kindly supported throughout her studies as well as at the early stages of her career in London by: Abbado European Young Musicians Trust, EMI Music Foundation, Talent Unlimited, Loan Fund for Musical Instruments, Albert Cooper Trust, Kathleen Trust, Help Musicians UK & the Instrument Scheme of the Royal College of Music. In 2015 Francina was given the Kenneth Loveland Gift Award (founded by Sir Simon Rattle) becoming the second violinist to be given this award since 2004.

At the age of thirteen Francina gave her first solo recital at Sa Nostra Centre, in Ciutadella de Menorca. Since then, she has performed at some of Europe's most prestigious venues such as the Cadogan Hall, St. George´s Hannover Square, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St Martin in the Fields and St. John’s Smith Square. An avid lover of chamber music Francina has performed recitals at St James’s Church within the London Trio Society Concert Series, violin and piano recitals at V&A Museum, St. James Piccadilly, St. David’s Hall in Cardiff and at the Wigmore Hall where she played works by composer James McMillan, who presided over the performance.

In the UK, Francina was a member of Southbanank Sinfonia, with which she gave orchestral and chamber music concerts throughout the UK and Italy. She has also played with the EMI Music Foundation Orchestra at the Somerset House in London, the Chipping Campden Festival and in Phantom of the Opera in the London West End. Francina regularly performs at the Gran Teatre del Liceu with the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu and at the Auditori of Barcelona with the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra. She also has collaborated with the Symphony Orchestra of Tenerife, the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands, the Catalan Chamber Orchestra and the GIO Orchestra.

Furthermore, Francina often closely works with composers, premiering and recording their work. Francina premiered a piece, which was dedicated to her, for solo violin- Sketch- by Austrian composer Thomas Wally, at the Soundings Academy of Contemporary Music in London. Francina also enjoys recording for film scores and has recorded at Abbey Road Studios for La Lune Folle film, in which she also played a role as Justine(available on Amazon Prime Video).

In April 2015 Francina was invited to play with the 24/04 Orchestra in Yerevan, Armenia, to remember the victims of the Armenian genocide, collaborating with soloists Sergey Khachatryan and Narek Hakhnazaryan. Francina’s musical and cultural experience in Yerevan brought Armenian music to her attention and since then she enjoys playing Armenian music to different audiences. Francina plays a Frederic Chaudiére violin, made in Montpellier in 1996.