Stephanie Pavia Watt

SCHOLAR DESCRIPTION

Stephanie Pavia is a Gozitan violist, Winner of the 2016 Colin Blythe Fund, a TCL Scholar and a Leverhulme Arts Scholar. She was the winner of the 2008 “Palma tad-Deheb” for cultural achievement. Under the guidance of Rivka Golani, in 2016 and in 2018, Stephanie obtained her Masters Degree in Viola Performance and her Postgraduate Artist Diploma in Viola Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. These studies were generously supported by the Janatha Stubbs Foundation, BOV Joseph Calleja Foundation, Albert Cooper Music Charitable Trust,The Henry Wood Accommodation Trust Fund, Malta Arts Fund and Trinity Laban External Courses Fund.

Stephanie was a full-time member with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (2008-2011). She attended and performed in various masterclasses at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and at Trinity Laban, performed in Corsica, in UK and in 2014 at the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum, part of the Old Liszt Academy in Budapest. In 2015 she performed at the International Bartók Seminar in Szombathely, Hungary. In 2019 she also performed with the Phoenix Choir and Orchestra of Crawley, Reigate and Redhill Choral Society, the Philharmonia Brittanica and the London Philhantropic Orchestra in UK.

She also participated in Coaching and Performed with The Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra and String Academy. During the same year she was the Viola Principal of the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra during their tour in China.