Orieta Dado, Violin
Contact- odado75@hotmail.com

Albanian violinist Orieta Dado is an acclaimed artist in her home country. Her solo appearance with the Albanian Radio Orchestra in 2004 was broadcast by national TV stations, and was applauded by the muscial elite of the country.  As a youth she won numerous national competitions, and has been featured in broadcasts of Albanian National

Radio and Television. Her solo appearance with the Tirana Philharmonic at age fourteen received critical acclaim. Beyond her native country, she also performed chamber music concerts in Italy, Germany and France.

Ms. Dado followed her musical studies in the USA, and became a winner of the Naftzger Grand Prize, Jefferson Young Artist the Jefferson Symphony, Aspen Young Artists, Hays Symphony, and the Starling Orchestra; and has been featured on a live broadcast of Radio Kansas and on an NPR program in Athens, Georgia. A founder and member of the Emery Trio, she has performed and presented
The Emory Trio
master classes in various summer festivals in Georgia and Kentucky. Additional chamber music performances include those in Aspen Music Festival, Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, the Cincinnati Bachanalia, and participation in master classes
for the Tokyo String Quartet, Rosamünde String Quartet, Opus X Piano Quartet, James Tocco and Yehuda Hanani. Orieta received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, where she studied with
 Orieta with Itzhak Perlman
Orieta with Kurt Sassmannhaus
Kurt Sassmannshaus, America’s foremost teacher Dorothy Delay, Piotr Milevsky and Chee Yun Kim.  For several years she was a violin and music theory teacher of the Staling Chamber Orchestra program. Ms. Dado moved to the Twin cities four months ago, and has maintained a very busy schedule of solo and chamber music recitals, orchestral performances with the Minnesota Orchestra and St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra, violin teaching at the St. Paul Conservatory of Music, as well as coaching sectionals for the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies. Currently she is a substitute musician for the St.Paul Chamber Orchestra,
 Orieta with Midori
the Minnesota Orchestra, a violin faculty of the St. Paul Conservatory, an Associate musician of the Columbus (OH) Symphony, and is finishing her Doctoral studies at the University of Cincinnati.