Violinist, Anna Elashvili, hailed as "riveting" by the New York Times has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster around the world. Alex Ross of The New Yorker wrote, "Anna Elashvili all but transformed the early, nondescript [Britten] Suite for Violin and Piano, maintaining ferocious accuracy far into the upper register.”

She has collaborated with renowned artists such as , Maxim Vengerov, Dawn Upshaw, Daniel Hope and Lynn Harrell. Anna is a violinist of Decoda, an Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall and also performs with the East Coast and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras, NOVUS NY, Musicians of Lenox Hill and the Mark Morris Orchestra. She also served as Co-Artistic Director of Decoda from 2017-19. For seven years, she was the first violinist of the Bryant Park Quartet. She has been a guest artist at several universities including Princeton, Vassar, Skidmore, DePauw, Lawrence, Johns Hopkins and Cornell Universities. Her international travels include concerts in England, Mexico, Germany, Canada, Israel, Iceland and Abu Dhabi among others.

Ms. Elashvili is currently violin faculty at Yellow Barn’s Young Artist Program and at the Special Music School in Manhattan. She formerly served as adjunct faculty at Vassar College. Ms. Elashvili received her Bachelors and Masters Degrees from The Juilliard School, and is an alumna from the Ensemble Connect fellowship, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute. She has attended Yellow Barn, Perlman Music Program, Tanglewood and the Verbier Music Festival, where she served as concertmaster for several European tours.

Ms. Elashvili also has written arrangements for Decoda, the Bryant Park Quartet and other ensembles. She has commissioned and premiered, “Sonatas and Disasters” by Brad Balliett and premiered several compositions by composers such as Du Yun, Christopher Theofanidis, Julian Wachner, Nico Muhly, Richard Wilson and many others. She also enjoys collaborating with dance companies and has worked closely with the Lar Lubovitch and Mark Morris Dance Groups, Wendy Whelan and Dance Heginbotham.

Ms. Elashvili performs on a Sam Zygmuntowicz violin on a generous extended loan.