Biography

Jiska Lambrecht (°1997) is a Belgian violinist. She is active as a soloist and as a passionate chamber musician.

In 2025, she was selected as one of the ten most promising young musicians by Klara, the Belgian radio.

Since 2018 Jiska forms a musical duo with the Italian pianist Marco Sanna. In 2024 their first cd Abendrot was released with music by Robert & Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms and the Flemish composer Lodewijk Mortelmans.

Jiska is the first violinist of the Turicum Quartet. 2023 the quartet got second prize at the Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition in Poland. Highly acclaimed, their performance was worldwide livestreamed by Medici TV. Highlights since then include their debut in Tonhalle Zurich, performing at NOSPR and concerts with the prestigious Gringolts Quartet. In 2025 they have been selected as ECMA ensemble (European Chamber Music Academy). They are a fellowship holder of Villa Musica in Germany and have been in 2024 Ensemble in Residence at the Ticino Musica Festival.

Together with the Dutch cellist Iedje van Wees Jiska founded Duo Misia. As a member of CHAARTS Chamber Artists she realised the cd Suite italienne with Jonian Ilias Kadesha. Her performance of the string quintet of Eugène Ysaÿe on the cd Legends received four stars in BBC Music Magazine.

Recently she performed as a soloist under the baton of Holly Hyun Choe. She worked a.o. with the conductors Edo de Waart, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Howard Griffiths, Kevin Griffiths and with the composers Jörg Widmann, Michael Jarrell and Lukas Stamm.

Jiska performed in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Austria, Liechtenstein, Norway, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Malta and Russia in concert halls such as Tonhalle Zurich, Grand Hall and Solti Hall Budapest, NOSPR, Bozar, De Singel, Concertgebouw Brugge, Yehudi Menuhin Forum Bern and the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

She was invited a.o. to Davos Festival, Pau Casals International Music Festival, Mizmorim Festival, GAIA Music Festival, Festival Academy Budapest, Kaposfest, CLASSIX Kempten, Aurora Old Ox Music Festival, Ghent Festival of Flanders and Boswiler Sommer. She is a regular guest at the Arte Amanti International Chamber Music Festival as Rising Star.

Jiska performed together with a.o. Antje Weithaas, Jonathan Brown, István Várdai, Máté Szücs, José Gallardo, Lorenza Borrani, Natalia Lomeiko, Maxim Rysanov, Razvan Popovici and the legendary Shlomo Mintz.

Jiska started playing the violin at the age of six. From 2013 she studied with Jolente De Maeyer and Natasha Boyarsky in London. After her master’s degree in Cologne with Barnabás Kelemen, Jiska completed her studies at the Zurich University of the Arts with Ilya Gringolts, obtaining the soloist diploma. She also broadened her spectrum by studying baroque violin with Monika Baer.

2024-2026 she is admitted with the Turicum Quartet for a graduate course in the classes of Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) and Silvia Simionescu (Gringolts Quartet) in Basel. The Turicum Quartet is also very grateful for the support and guidance of Axel Schacher (ex-Belcea Quartet).

Jiska had masterclasses with a.o. Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Svetlana Makarova, Kristóf Baráti, Erik Schumann, Lutsia Ibragimova, Eszter Perényi and Hariolf Schlichtig.

In 2025, Jiska received a scholarship for emerging talent from the Flemish Government. She is a Laureate of the Marguerite Meister Foundation, Laureate 2024 of SWUK Flanders Foundation and won a Kiwanis Music Prize with the Turicum Quartet.​