Bacem Anas Romdhani

Bacem Anas Romdhani emerged from Tunisia as a child prodigy in the early 20’s. He is a Tunisian-British classical violinist proudly representing the musical elite of the MENA region. 

Highlights of his career include being the first African-Arab classical artist to reach the semi-final of the Windsor Festival International string competition 2021 (UK), winning 3rd prize at the Vienna New Year’s Concert International music competition 2021 and winning 1st prize at the Vatelot-Rampal International violin competition 2007 (Paris) before turning 12. He made his debut performance at the Wigmore Hall (London) in 2014.

Aged nine, Bacem Anas was invited by the Tunisian Symphony Orchestra to make his solo debut. Aged ten, He won the ‘World Philharmonic Orchestra’ competition 2006 in Paris and represented Tunisia, Africa & the Arab world as part of the 'Five children of the world'. His early musical journey is chronicled in the award-winning documentary ‘Once Upon Our Time’ (2010) produced by multi-award winning Tunisian film maker Hichem Ben Ammar.

Bacem Anas’ early success came to the attention of the president of the Tunisian Republic, where he received an Honorary award in 2007. In 2014, he became the first Tunisian classical artist to be appointed by the Tunisian Symphony Orchestra as their ‘Solo Artist in Residence’

He has performed widely in Europe, highlights include the Österreichische Nationalbibiliothek for Tunisia’s ‘National Dialogue Quartet’ Nobel Peace prize ceremony in Vienna, the Menuhin & Tibor Varga Festivals, the Muziekgebouw in Holland and the Tunisian Embassy in London. He performed on all the major concert venues in Tunisia, to name a few Municipal Theatre of Tunis, Carthage Amphitheater, Acropolium of Carthage, Municipal Theatre of Sousse, El Jem Amphitheater. 

Born in Tunis, he began the violin at age five with professors Rachid Koubaa and Sem Slimane, both former concertmasters of the Tunisian symphony orchestra at Zyriab Conservatoire of Music & Dance. At age eleven, he won a full scholarship from the prestigious music school The Yehudi Menuhin School and solely settled in the United Kingdom. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London) with long time famed mentor Simon Fischer and went on to conclude his postgraduate and Artist diploma degrees at the Royal College of Music (London) with Maciej Rakowski & Radu Blidar.

He became Associate Principal 2nd violinist of the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice (2022-2024) and is currently member of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice.

He performs on the very fine “Menuhin” 1998 violin made by Andreas Hellinge in Geneva, made specially for Lord Yehudi Menuhin.