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Considered one of the up-and-coming violinists of her generation, Lalita Svete is the recipient of the 2018 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund from the North Shore Chamber Music Festival and the 2021 EMF Pirastro Young Artist Prize. The young artist devotes herself with the greatest commitment to a wide-ranging repertoire that encompasses all epochs from baroque to contemporary music.

In 2021, Svete released her debut album Silhouettes in collaboration with Radio Slovenija Program ARS and the label ZKP. Furthermore, recordings of the violinist were broadcast on RTV Slovenia and BBC Radio 3.

Collaborations with orchestras such as the Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kiev Camerata have accompanied her musical path. She has performed in renowned concert halls, including the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, ORF Radiokulturhaus, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Malibran, Slovenian Philharmonic and Cankarjev Dom. Svete has made guest appereances at the Carinthian Summer Festival and the Wien Modern Festival in Austria. In 2024, she has been invited to premiere the violin concerto by her father, Tomaž Svete, at the Festival Ljubljana.

Lalita Svete comes from a family of musicians and was born in Vienna in 1996. She received her first violin lessons at the age of four at the music school in Maribor, Slovenia. She made her debut in 2007 at the Lent Summer Festival. Same year, the young violinist was part of a concert series with the Zagreb Soloists in Croatia, Liechtenstein, Austria and Slovenia, organised by the Stiftung Musik & Jugend.

Svete completed her Master's degree with distinction at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Boris Brovtsyn. She received further lessons with Arkadi Winokurow and Lidia Baich. At master classes with Vadim Gluzman, Rachel Podger and Shunske Sato the violinist gathered numerous impulses. Svete plays on a bench copy of a 1687 Giovanni Battista Rogeri violin made by Philip Ihle in 2023.