Shiry Rashkovsky

Lauded by The Strad for her ‘thrilling and exuberant’ Royal Festival Hall debut, Shiry pursues an international and diverse career.

In demand as a chamber musician, Shiry is invited to international festivals including Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, where she has performed with Adrian Brendel, Ian Brown, Thomas Gould, Viviane Hagner, and David Waterman, among others. She has broadcast live in ensemble with Shmuel Ashkenasi, Atar Arad, Stephan Barratt-Due, Vadim Gluzman, Rudolf Koelman, Shlomo Mintz; performed with Sacconi Quartet; and has featured in Cadogan Hall’s ‘Rising Stars’ series. She is a founding member of Trio Klein. They were Artists in Residence at University of Surrey in 2023/2024, and will be releasing their debut EP in 2025.

Dedicated to innovation in programming, Shiry is the founder and Artistic Director of Up Close and Musical festival, which in its inaugural year, 2021, featured some of the biggest names in the classical, jazz and electronica scenes.

Shiry has recently commissioned: viola/voice duo composed by and recorded with Héloïse Werner; a words-and-music programme by Jessica Duchen celebrating the cross-cultural friendship between Ralph Vaughan Williams and Jewish violist Lionel Tertis, recently performed at Three Choirs Festival and featured in The Strad and on Scala Radio; and a viola quintet by Errollyn Wallen, premiered with the Solem Quartet.

A dedicated pedagogue, Shiry is delighted to join the String Faculty at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2024/2025. She has taught viola at Royal Holloway, University of London since 2013 and given masterclasses to talented and aspiring young musicians internationally. She read Social and Political Sciences at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and obtained her MMus and ArtDip at RCM, studying with Natasha Boyarska and Ian Jewel.