Alina Ibragimova

“The immediacy and honesty of Ibragimova’s playing has the curious ability to collapse any sense of distance between performer and listener.” - The Guardian

Performing repertoire from the Baroque to the present day on both modern and period instruments, Alina Ibragimova is one of the most accomplished and intriguing violinists of her generation.

She has been a prominent presence at the BBC Proms since 2015, giving late-night recitals of the complete Bach solo partitas and sonatas and the world premiere of Rolf Wallin’s Violin Concerto with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner.

Alina has performed with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Gürzenich-Orchester and Dresden Philharmonic, working with Robin Ticciati, Edward Gardner, Daniel Harding, Nathalie Stutzmann, Vladimir Jurowski and Maxim Emelyanychev among others.

In recital, Alina regularly performs at London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and at the Royal Albert Hall where she performed Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin at part of the BBC Proms. She frequently collaborates with pianist Cédric Tiberghien, and is a founding member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet – one of the most sought-after period ensembles.

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 Ibragimova studied at the Moscow Gnessin School before moving to the UK in 1995 where she studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music. She was also a member of the Kronberg Academy Professional Studies during which she was tought by Christian Tetzlaff. Further teachers have included Natasha Boyarsky and Gordan Nikolitch.

She has been the recipient of awards including the 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2008 and the Classical BRIT Young Performer of the Year Award in 2009. She was also a member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme from 2005 to 2007. Alina Ibragimova was made an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours List.

She plays an Anselmo Bellosio violin of c. 1775, which is kindly provided by Georg von Opel.

From 2008 to 2011, Alina Ibragimova studied at Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff.