Australian clarinettist Magdalenna Krstevska has performed as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinettist in renowned music halls across the UK, Australia, Europe, and China. Recent engagements include recitals at St. James’ Piccadilly, Buxton Music Festival and Banstead Arts Festival.
 

Magdalenna’s accolades include the Australian National Young Virtuoso of the Year and the 3MBS Young Performer of the Year awards. She was a prize winner in the Australian Youth Classical Music Competition and won the AMF’s Nora Goodridge Developing Artist award and a Tait Memorial Trust Award.

 

After graduating from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music with First Class Honours in 2015, Magdalenna continued her training at the Australian National Academy of Music. In July 2021, she graduated from the Royal College of Music, London with a Master of Performance with Distinction. She was awarded the exceptional score of 96 in her final recital and won the 2021 RCM Clarinet Prize. In 2021/22 she was the RCM Mills Williams Junior Fellow.

 

Magdalenna is a founding member of the Delphine Trio, with whom she has been a semifinalist in the Royal Overseas League Chamber Music Competition and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The Delphine Trio recently released their debut album 'Adrift' with the Dutch label TRPTK.

She has performed with the English National Opera, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony, Tasmanian Symphony, Melbourne Chamber, Opera Australia, and Australian World orchestras. As clarinet fellow with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2018, she performed in over twenty-five mainstage programs and a European tour, including in the role of principal and principal E-flat clarinet.

A strong advocate of diversity in classical music, Magdalenna is the founder of the Corelia Project, an initiative that spotlights the works of women composers. The Corelia Project has created a database of repertoire by women to enable easy access for instrumentalists, and regularly presents inspired and exciting concert programmes across the UK.