With
repertoire encompassing baroque to contemporary works, Alina
Ibragimova's recent engagements have included her BBC Proms debut
with the London Symphony Orchestra, the opening concert of the
MDR Musiksommer Festival, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia, HR
Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt and City of Birmingham Symphony, with
conductors including Sir Charles Mackerras, Osmo Vänskä,
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jac van Steen and Gianandrea
Noseda. Alina made her debut as soloist/director with the Kremerata
Baltica during Salzburg Mozartwoche 2005, and has since performed
with the Kremerata and Gidon Kremer at Salle Pleyel Paris,
Mozartwoche 2008, and the Salzburg and Verbier festivals. She has
also toured as soloist/director with the Britten Sinfonia and
Australian Chamber Orchestra. Future engagements include the
complete Beethoven violin sonatas at the Wigmore Hall with her
regular recital partner Cédric Tiberghien, and the Ligeti
violin concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner at
the Barbican. Alina has performed solo recitals, duo recitals, and
chamber music, at the Musée du Louvre Paris, Wigmore Hall
London, for NHK Television in Japan and at festivals including
Salzburg, Verbier, City of London, Lockenhaus, Heimbach, Aldeburgh
and Moritzburg. She was a member of the BBC New Generation Artists
Scheme 2005-7, appearing frequently on BBC Radio 3 and with all the
BBC orchestras. Born in Russia in 1985, Alina is a former pupil of
the Moscow Gnesin and Yehudi Menuhin schools, and the Royal College
of Music London. Her teachers have included Natasha Boyarsky, Adrian
Butterfield for baroque and classical violin, and Gordan Nikolitch.
In 2008/9 Alina will continue her studies with Christian Tetzlaff as
part of the Kronberg Academy Masters. Alina records for Hyperion
Records and performs on a 1738 Pietro Guarneri of Venice violin,
kindly provided by Georg von Opel. She was a recipient of a 2008
Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.
Photograph taken by Sussie Ahlburg