Alina Ibragimova violin

Award Winner 2008

With repertoire encompassing baroque, classical and contemporary works, Alina Ibragimova's recent engagements have included her BBC Proms debut with the London Symphony Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth, Mendelssohn with the Philharmonia and Sir Charles Mackerras, Sibelius with the BBC Scottish Symphony and Osmo Vänskä, Prokofiev with RSO Frankfurt and Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Beethoven with the BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda. Alina Ibragimova made her debut as soloist/director with the Kremerata Baltica during Salzburg Mozartwoche 2005. She has since performed with the Kremerata and Gidon Kremer at Salle Pleyel Paris as well as the Salzburg, Verbier and MDR Musiksommer festivals. She also collaborates regularly as soloist/director with the Britten Sinfonia, and will direct the Australian Chamber Orchestra on tour in autumn 2008. Alina Ibragimova has performed both solo and duo recitals and chamber music at the Musée du Louvre Paris, Wigmore Hall London, for NHK Television in Japan as well as at festivals including 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 Radio 3 and with all the BBC orchestras. Born in Russia in 1985, Alina Ibragimova 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, Gordan Nikolitch, Christian Tetzlaff and Adrian Butterfield for baroque and classical violin. She records for Hyperion Records and her debut CD was released in September 2007. She performs on a 1738 Pietro Guarneri of Venice violin, kindly provided by Georg von Opel.

Photograph taken by Sussie Ahlburg