Beatrice Colombis

Beatrice Colombis, 22, 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, and continued her studies with ACO violinist Ilya Isakovich. 

Beatrice is winner of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition 2026. In 2024, she was a semi-finalist in the Max Rostal International Violin Competition in Germany and a finalist in the Tokyo Classic Violin Competition in Japan. She has been a prize winner in several Australian competitions, including the 2nd prize in the Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship (2025), 1st and audience prizes at the Kendall National Violin Competition (2023), the Roger Woodward AC OBE Award and runner up prize in the 2mbs Young Virtuoso Award (2024), Richard Mills first prize in the Melbourne Bach Competition (2021) the Anne Kantor Award in the Great Romantics Competition (2024). In 2020, Beatrice, with her brother and cousins as the Cousin Quartet, won Musica Viva's Inaugural Strike A Chord national chamber music competition. Beatrice has performed as a soloist in Australia with Concerto Arcana, Caesura Ensemble, and the Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra. 

Beatrice was selected as an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2023 and 2024. She has played casually with the ACO, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Karajan Akademie Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She was selected for the Gustav Mahler Academy in Bolzano in 2025/26.