Alina Ibragimova

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Name = Alina Ibragimova


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flagicon|RUS Polevskoy, Russia
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Instrument = Violin
Genre = Baroque, classical
Occupation = Violinist
Years_active = 1998-
Label = Hyperion
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Notable_instruments = Violin: 1738 Pietro Guarneri of Venice

Alina Ibragimova (born 28 September 1985) is a russian violinist, the youngest-ever winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Emily Anderson Prize.

Early life and education

Ibragimova was born in Polevskoy, Russia. Her family was musical, and she began playing the violin at the age of four. As five she started at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow, studying under Valentina Korolkova, and by the age of six had started her career by playing with various orchestras, including the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. In 1996 her father took up the post of principal bass with the London Symphony Orchestra, and the family moved to live in England. In the following year Ibragimova began her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School (where her mother is professor of violin) under Natasha Boyarskaya.

In December 1998 Ibragimova performed with Nicola Benedetti at the opening ceremony of the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at UNESCO in Paris; they played Bach's double violin concerto under the baton of Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin died three months later, and Ibragimova performed the slow movement of the same concerto at his funeral in Westminster Abbey. After finishing her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Ibragimova went on to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for a year, and then to the Royal College of Music, studying under Gordan Nikolitch. Together with other students from the Royal College, she formed the period-instrument string quartet Chiaroscuro, specialising in music from the classical period

Career

After winning several international competitions, in 2002 Ibragimova won the London Symphony Orchestra Music Scholarship (formerly the Shell Prize), which was an important boost to her solo career. The biggest breakthrough for her, however, came in 2005, when she played and directed Mozart's second violin concerto with the Kremerata Baltica at the Salzburg Mozarteum.

Ibragimova is a member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. She has performed concertos with Britten Sinfonia, the Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, working with conductors including Sir Charles Mackerras, Gianandrea Noseda and Osmo Vänskä. She has performed chamber music at the Salzburg and Verbier festivals, and given solo recitals at the Musée du Louvre Paris, for NHK Television Japan and as part of BBC Radio 3's Bach Christmas Festival.

Her first CD for Hyperion Records is the complete violin works of Karl Amadeus Hartmann, which will be released in September 2007.

Ibragimova performs on a 1738 violin by Pietro Guarneri of Venice, which is provided by Georg von Opel.

ources and external links

* [http://www.alinaibragimova.com Ibragimova's Website]
*"Class of 2007" ("BBC Music Magazine" 15:7, March 2007; p.29)