Alina Ibragimova director & violin
The Times has written that Alina Ibragimova performs with "a mixture of total abandonment and total control that is in no way contradictory" and that she is "destined to be a force in the classical music firmament for decades to come".
Performing music from the baroque to new commissions on both modern and period instruments, Alina Ibragimova has appeared with, among others, the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Stuttgart Radio Symphony and the Philharmonia, with conductors including Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Mark Elder, Richard Hickox, Carlo Rizzi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Gianandrea Noseda.
In recital and chamber music Alina has appeared at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall (where she and her regular recital partner Cédric Tiberghien have recently performed the complete Beethoven violin sonatas), Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Vienna’s Musikverein, and Brussel’s Palais des Beaux Arts.
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.
Alina records for Hyperion Records. The New York Times said of her recording of JS Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas that "Ms. Ibragimova's combination of intelligence and intuition, vulnerability and steel will surely prove revelatory”; and she has recorded concertos by Hartmann and Roslavets, and sonatas by Szymanowski and Beethoven with Cédric Tiberghien.
Alina has been a member of the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme, a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award, and winner of a Classical BRIT Award. She performs on a 1738 Pietro Guarneri of Venice violin kindly provided by Georg von Opel.
In May 2011 it was announced that Alina has won the Young Artist Award at the RPS Music Awards. Click here for more details.
Watch Alina playing Bach, Biber and Vivaldi with the AAM