Alina Ibragimova

Performing music from baroque to new commissions on both modern and period instruments, Alina Ibragimova has established a reputation for versatility and the “immediacy and honesty” (The Guardian) of her performances.

The 2022–2023 season saw Ibragimova perform concertos by Jörg Widmann, Bartók, Prokofiev, and Mendelssohn with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony (all with Robin Ticciati), the London Philharmonic (with Edward Gardner), the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Dresden Philharmonic, and Cologne’s Gürzenich-Orchester. She also begins a two-year Mozart cycle with Kammerorchester Basel and Kristian Bezuidenhout.

Last season’s highlights included returns to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra collaborating with Daniel Harding, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Maxim Emelyanychev, among others. She recently performed with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

In recital, Ibragimova regularly performs at London’s Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre, 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 the BBC Proms. This season she continues her longstanding partnership with pianist Cédric Tiberghien with concerts across Europe and North America. Ibragimova is a founding member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet—one of the one of the most sought-after period ensembles.

Ibragimova’s discography on Hyperion Records ranges from Bach Concertos with Arcangelo to Prokofiev Sonatas with Steven Osborne. Her 2020 album of Shostakovich’s Violin Concertos with Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academy Symphony Orchestra of Russia received a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Diapason d’Or, and was one of The Times’s “Discs of the Year.” Her 2021 recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices topped the classical album charts on its release.

Born in Russia in 1985, Ibragimova studied at the Moscow Gnesin School before moving to the UK where she attended the Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal College of Music. Her teachers have included Natasha Boyarsky, Gordan Nikolitch, and Christian Tetzlaff. Ibragimova’s many awards include the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award 2010, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2008, the Classical BRIT, and the Young Performer of the Year Award 2009. An alumnus of the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme (2005–2007), she was made an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours List. Ibragimova performs on a c.1775 Anselmo Bellosio violin kindly provided by Georg von Opel.