Alina Ibragimova

London’s 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 orchestras including the London Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony, the Hallé Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Philharmonia with conductors including Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Mark Elder, Carlo Rizzi, Richard Hickox, Walter Weller, Osmo Vänskä, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Edward Gardner and Gianandrea Noseda.
Future engagements include debuts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Vladimir Jurowski, the Seattle Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Academy of Ancient Music.
As a soloist and first violinist, Alina has performed with the Kremerata Baltica in Paris, Salzburg and Verbier and has toured with the Britten Sinfonia and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
In recitals and chamber music performances Alina has appeared at venues including Wigmore Hall in London (where she and regular recital partner Cédric Tiberghien have recently performed the complete Beethoven violin sonatas), the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Musikverein in Vienna, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Vancouver Recital Series and at festivals including Salzburg, Verbier, MDR Musiksommer, Lockenhaus and Aldeburgh. Born in Russia in 1985, Alina is a former pupil of the Moscow Gnesins’Academy, the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music in London, where her teachers have included Natasha Boyarsky, Gordan Nikolitch and Christian Tetzlaff.
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. She records for Hyperion Records and performs on a 1738 Venetian Pietro Guarneri violin on generous loan from Georg von Opel.