Marina Chado- Founder, violin professor, manager of the String Instrument Department and executive director of the school
Marina Chado graduated at the prestigious conservatorium of music “Petar Ilich Tchaikovsky” in Moscow, Russia, under the mentorship of the world renowned professors Meljnikov and Chugaeva.
Since then she has had a string of performances as a soloist together with philharmonic and chamber orchestras in Moscow, Munich, Belgrade, Skopje, throughout Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia, as well as at the festivals “Skopje Summer Festival” and “Ohrid Summer Festival”.
Her repertoire consists of pieces by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, as well as Tchaikovsky and Brahms, de Falla and Dvorzak, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
For several years she has played in the Chamber Orchestra at the Macedonian Radio and Television, where she recorded many important compositions. Marina also was a part of the orchestra of the Opera of the former Macedonian National Theatre. She is the leader of the “Skopje Ladies’ Orchestra”.
She has worked as a violin professor and her students have won national awards. She has taken part in several regional seminars, led by highly renowned educators. One of her greatest achievements in her educational work is being the author of the educational programme for the primary music schools in Slovenia.
She is a member of international music competitions commissions, as well as of the European Piano Teachers Association- EPTA.
In 2010 Marina Chado joins Violeta Stefanovska- Shukovikj at “Pianoforte”, where she becomes a co-owner and forms the Sting Instrument Department. During her work she has not only been a violinist and educator, but also a mentor of many young staff members who have begun their educational career in “Pianoforte”.