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Georgina Isabel Rossi is an American classical violist. Her 2020 album Mobili: Music for Viola and Piano from Chile (New Focus Recordings), with pianist Silvie Cheng, was praised as “expertly played” (—WQXR New York), “a startling new recording” (—CVNC Journal), and “one of my favorite discoveries of the year” (KDFC’s Brian Lauritzen). Her sophomore album with Cheng, Chorinho: Music for Viola and Piano from Brazil (PARMA Recordings), was released in 2023 with support from the NYC Women’s Fund, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. It was declared “captivating” (—BBC Music Magazine), 

A sought-after soloist and chamber musician, she has performed as soloist with the Orquesta de Cámara de Chile and with the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Cuyo. In 2024, she was invited in the role of Guest Artist to give a full recital for the 49th International Viola Congress in Universidad de Campinas, Brasil. 2025 season highlights include a chamber music residency at the Parry Sound Music Festival in Ontario, CA, a recital for the Toronto Summer Music Festival’s Shuffle Hour concerts, and her solo debut with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile alongside concertmaster Alberto Dourthé.

Santiago-born, Rossi is a product of the Chilean national youth orchestra program (F.O.J.I.).  Her first teacher was her mother, violist Penelope Knuth, and she moved to the U.S. at sixteen to attend Interlochen Arts Academy. She holds a Master’s from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Roger Tapping, a Bachelor’s from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Daniel Avshalomov and the American String Quartet, and is a Fellow of the Toronto, Bowdoin, and Kammermusik Akademie Hohenstaufen international festivals. Rossi is a former member of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, where she held the Wes & Chloe Horton chair. She currently serves on the faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as Professor of Viola, and has given master classes at institutions across Latin America and the United States.

Rossi plays an Argentinean viola by Leonardo Anderi from 2014, and her bow is a Christian Wilhelm Knopf. She is passionate about painting and trained by Chilean artist Susana Larraín and at the Art Students League of New York.