Alina Ibragimova
Biography
downloadPerforming music from baroque to new commissions on both modern and period instruments, Alina Ibragimova is recognised for the ”immediacy and honesty” (The Guardian) of her performances.
The season will see Alina play concertos by Jörg Widmann, Bartók, Prokofiev and Mendelssohn with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, London Philharharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic and Dresden Philharmonic. She also begins a two-year Mozart cycle with the Kammerorchester Basel.
Highlights of recent seasons include concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; collaborating with Vladimir Jurowski, Sir John Elliot Gardner, Jakob Hrůša, Maxim Emelyanychev, Robin Ticciati, Daniel Harding and Edward Gardner.
In recital, Alina regularly performs at London’s Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and at the Royal Albert Hall where she performed Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin at the BBC Proms. This season she continues her award-winning partnership with pianist Cédric Tiberghien with concerts across Europe and North America. She also performs with the Chiaroscuro Quartet – one of the most sought-after period ensembles of which she is a founding member.
Alina’s discography on Hyperion Records ranges from Bach Concertos with Arcangelo through to Prokofiev Sonatas with Steven Osborne. Her 2020 recording of Shostakovich’s Violin Concertos won a Gramophone Award, while her 2021 recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices topped the classical album charts on its release.
Born in Russia in 1985, Alina attended the Moscow Gnesin School, Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal College of Music, studying with Natasha Boyarsky, Gordan Nikolitch and Christian Tetzlaff. An alumnus of the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme, Alina’s many accolades include two Royal Philharmonic Society awards and an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours List.
Alina performs on a c.1775 Anselmo Bellosio violin kindly provided by Georg von Opel.
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Videos

- Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien plays Mozart's Sonata K. 296, filmed exclusively for A Fly On The Wall during recording sessions with Andrew Keener and Simon Eadon.
- Alina leads the Academy of Ancient Music from in the violin in works by Biber, Bach and Vivaldi in a program that charts developments in the role of the violin as a solo instrument.
- Academy of Ancient Music players share their thoughts on rehearsals with Alina Ibragimova.
- A video of Ms. Ibragimova performing the Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 3 second movement, with Ludovic Morlot and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
- In July 2011, Alina Ibragimova collaborated with American film artists, The Brothers Quay, for an interactive journey through spaces in Manchester, at the Manchester International Festival, and in London, for the Barbican “Blaze” Festival. In the performances, she played solo works by Bach, Biber, Bartok and Berio, in dialogue with evocative film art. In this video, she speaks about the project, and audience members share their reactions.
- Alina Ibragimova Oct.21,2005 Tokyo Japan アリーナ・イブラギモヴァ 2005.10.21 武蔵野市民文化会館
News
- Alina Ibragimova | Cédric Tiberghien: November 2 – 15, 2020
- Alina Ibragimova with the Boston Symphony and Montreal Symphony