Alina Ibragimova

The PricewaterhouseCoopers Vivacious Tour: Guest Director and Violin

With a repertoire spanning baroque works to contemporary commissions, Alina’s recent engagements have included Mendelssohn with the Philharmonia and Sir Charles Mackerras, Sibelius with the BBC Scottish Symphony and Osmo Vänskä, Beethoven with the BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda, Bruch with the BBC Symphony and Edward Gardner, and Prokofiev with the RSO Frankfurt and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She has also recently performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony, Vienna Chamber Orchestra and at the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart Festival.

With the Kremerata Baltica, Alina has directed Mozart and Bach from the violin and performed the Bach double concerto and Mozart’s Concertone with Gidon Kremer in Salzburg Mozartwoche (where she returns in 2008), at MDR Musiksommer and Salle Pleyel Paris. Alina’s work with the Britten Sinfonia has included the Aldeburgh Proms and, in October 2007, to coincide with the release of her debut CD for Hyperion Records, they will perform Hartmann’s Concerto Funèbre together at Queen Elizabeth Hall London.

Her strong commitment to chamber music has taken Alina to festivals including Verbier, Heimbach, Aldeburgh and Moritzburg, and she appears regularly at the City of London and Lockenhaus festivals. In recital Alina recently made her Wigmore Hall debut and has performed solo programmes at the Musée du Louvre Paris, on NHK Television in Japan, and as part of BBC Radio 3’s Bach Christmas festival. Born in Russia in 1985, Alina is a former pupil of the Moscow Gnesin and Yehudi Menuhin schools and her teachers have included Natasha Boyarsky, Gordan Nikolitch, Christian Tetzlaff and Adrian Butterfield (baroque violin).

Alina is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme and performs on a 1738 Pietro Guarneri of Venice violin kindly provided by Georg von Opel.

Video

A film by Sussie Ahlburg of Alina performing a movement from KA Hartmann's Suite No.2 for solo violin.