French violinist Sara Bitlloch studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, London, Menuhin Academy, Switzerland, and Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, from which she graduated in May 2000. Winner of the Szigeti Competition, Budapest,and the Renata Molinari Competition,Switzerland, Sara has performed throughout France, England, Spain, Switzerland and the US, as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Lysy, among others, and played alongside such musicians as Yehudi Menuhin, Leon Fleischer, Martin Lovett, Christoph Richter, Charles Neidich, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Michel Strauss, Miriam Fried, Ivry Gitlis. As a founding member of the Mediterraneo Piano Trio, she won second prize in the 1999 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and has performed in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Louvre Concert Series in Paris, the Kennedy Center, Washington. Sara currently plays on a violin by Andrea Guarnerius which is on loan to her from the Fonds Instrumental Français. She is now based inParis and regularly goes back to teach and perform with the Menuhin Academy, Switzerland.