Izabela Wiktoria Oliwia Torfs (Belgian/Polish) was born in 12.12.2012;
Violinist/Composer;
She started playing the violin with S.Erkmenis in 2019. In 2022 A.Morozova also became her violin tutor.In September 2019, she began playing the piano with H.Keser.
Since April 2023 she started self-studying music theory. Because of that, she started composing; up till now she wrote more than 50 compositions. In September 2023, during a violin audition for the Conservatory of Amsterdam’s Sweelinck Academy she was playing the Mozart concerto in G-Major (for violin and piano) with her own cadenza. J.van Driel became her violin tutor in the conservatory.
In 2024 she started playing the alto saxophone as a hobby, from S. Styles via the MusicSoulHouse music school. In January 2025, she also begun to play on the viola for a request of the conservatory. Very recently, in order to improve her understanding of brass instruments and for sake of her composition journey, Izabela also decided to learn the trombone (just begun).
You can find Izabela’s 2022 20th Century Music Competition piano performance here.
You can find Izabela’s 2022 19th Century Music Competition violin performance here.
Watch Izabela Wiktoria Oliwia Torfs perform Souvenir de Sarasate (Fantasia Spagnole) by W.H. Potstock on the violin for the 2025 Virtuoso Music Competition as part of the Charleston International Music Competition.
Watch Izabela Wiktoria Oliwia Torfs perform Ab Initio Ad Infinitum Maleficus by Izabela Wiktoria Oliwia Torfs on the violin for the 2025 World Music Competition as part of the Charleston International Music Competition.