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Alda was born into a family of musicians and left Albania at an early age to pursue her career in music. She studied in Romania and received a Bachelor Degree from the University of Bucharest. She did her Masters at the University of Illinois in USA and continued her Advanced Studies in London, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno where she also held the prestigious Leverhulme String Fellowship for two years.
She rose to international fame in 2008 after performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Albanian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra at their UK debut in Canterbury Cathedral. In 2006 she received her first nomination for “The Best Classical Musician of the Year” in her native Albania. In 2008 she was appointed Musician in Residence of The Wapping Arts Trust with HRH Princess Michael of Kent as Patron. Selected by Gramophone Magazine in May 2011 as “One to Watch”, she toured the UK in July of that year to promote her album, In the Footsteps of BACH. In 2013 and 2014, she released three highly acclaimed CDs, one of which was a live recording of her Wigmore Hall debut. Since then, Alda has performed at all the major concert venues in the UK and has been a regular guest on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 programmes.
At Freedom & Transformation, Alda will perform her most intimate album,"The Words of the Candle". Inspired and conceived while she watched over her father at his hospital bedside in one of Tirana’s hospitals, when he was struck by Covid-19, it is an introspective collection of beloved pieces for solo violin and transcriptions for violin and harp, including the famous song written by her father, the famous Albanian composer Limos Dizdari. The album is named after this song, “The Words of the Candle”, and is a second hymn for the Albanian people. In this album, Alda channels the transformative and healing power of music.
