Izabela Wiktoria Oliwia Torfs

London Young Musician 2024-25 World No.2 Musician Award Winner

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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 (online). 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 Violin Mozart concerto in G-Major 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 in 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). Since the beginning of 2025 Enrico Ferri from MusicTutorOnline became Izabela’s composition teacher.

Izabela was ranked No. 1 in the World Top 50 Musicians in the 2022–2023 competition year and No. 2 in the recently concluded 2024–2025 competition year at the London Young Musician.