The Symphonina Foundation

Milena Babich (2nd Violin, Turkey) has been playing violin since age 6. She graduated from the Tver Mussorgsky College of Music in 2015 and the Petrozavodsk State Conservatory, named after Glazunov, in 2021. She has participated in many master classes including those produced by Alexander Trostyansky, Karen Shakhgaldyan, Maxim Novikov, and Alexander Shustin. She’s also a laureate of many international competitions, including the International Forum “Musical Performance and Pedagogy,” and she finished in second place in the “21 Country Art” competition (Lempäälä, Finland). She has played in more than 500 concerts touring with the Concord Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, traveling in Russia, Germany, Belarus, Finland, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and the United Arab Emirates.