28 March 2008 Alina has been short-listed for a Royal Philharmonic Society award in the Young Artists category.
11 January 2008 Alina has just completed recording the two violin concertos by Nikolai Roslavets (1881-1944) with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov. The first concerto (1925) is polytonal, whilst the second (1936), following Roslavets period as a Soviet 'non-person' in Uzbekistan, is in D major. Alina's recording of the second concerto is the world premiere performance and the CD will be released by Hyperion Records in November 2008.
12 December 2007 Alina will perform with Cédric Tiberghien in a special broadcast of BBC Radio 3's In Tune live from the Radio Theatre in BBC Broadcasting House on 19 December.
23 October 2007 A film by Sussie Ahlburg of Alina performing KA Hartmann's Suite No.2 Fließend is now on YouTube - click here
20 October 2007 Listen to Alina in interview with Fiona Talkington in this Britten Sinfonia podcast - click here
15 October 2007 Alina recorded Huw Watkins' Partita for solo violin today for BBC Radio 3. It was commissioned for Alina's Wigmore Hall debut last November and has been shortlisted for the BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award category of the British Composer Awards.
27 September 2007 Alina will take part, with the Britten Sinfonia, in an open rehearsal at City of London School For Girls tonight, as part of the Mayor of London's Open Rehearsal programme. A great chance to see how an orchestra and soloist prepare a concerto for performance.
26 September 2007 Alina & Lethal Bizzle appear on the cover of this week's Time Out.
14 September 2007 Alina is featured in the current download-only issue of The Strad's SFZ magazine www.thestrad.com/sfz
13 September 2007 Alina and british rap star Lethal Bizzle have been exploring each other's music for a cover feature in Time Out (London). Lethal B attended Alina's quartet rehearsals last week and Alina went to his MTV sessions yesterday.
03 September 2007 Alina's Hartmann disc is CD of the Week on BBC Radio 3
01 September 2007 Alina's debut CD, the complete violin music of Karl Amadeus Hartmann, is released today by Hyperion Records. The CD includes the Concerto funebre, recorded with the Britten Sinfonia, co-lead by Alina and Jacqueline Shave. The remainder of the disc consists of Hartmann's often fiercely difficult solo violin works
31 August 2007 Alina appears in the current BBC Music Magazine and on the cover-mount CD, which features specially recorded performances of the two Bach violin concertos
17 August 2007 Alina is on the cover of the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal
14 August 2007 Alina will make a last-minute Proms debut this Saturday, 18 August, performing two Piazolla tangos, in arrangements by John Adams, with the London Symphony Orchestra. Alina replaces the published soloist, Maxim Vengerov
17 July 2007 A review in today's Times by Geoff Brown, of Alina's recent recital with Cédric Tiberghien at the Cheltenham Festival, concludes "Both of these players have the potential to conquer the world". Geoff was one of the first to write about Alina; in his November 2000 review of the Yehudi Menuhin Memorial Concert in London, he wrote that "many players twice her age would be lucky to command her unforced strength and fullness of tone. We were putty in her hands from her very first notes"
01 June 2007 Alina has just recorded the two Bach violin concertos with the BBC Scottish Symphony, directed from the harpsichord by Nicholas Kraemer, for the cover CD of the September issue of the BBC Music Magazine
28 March 2007 Alina's BBC New Generation Artists scheme recording of the César Franck violin sonata, with Cédric Tiberghien, will be part of the cover CD programme for the May issue of the BBC Music Magazine
26 February 2007 Alina will perform at Gidon Kremer's 60th birthday concert in Kronberg
04 January 2007 A last-minute request from Gidon Kremer to join him in a performance of the Bach double concerto at Salle Pleyel, Paris, as part of the Agerich/Kremer Weekend concerts
13 & 14 January 2007 Two very long days recording the second part of her debut CD for Hyperion, the two solo suites and two solo sonatas by KA Hartmann
08 & 09 December 2006 Alina will lead the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra in performances of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, conducted by Bernard Haitink
27 November 2006 Recording sessions all day at Henry Wood Hall London with the Britten Sinfonia, recording the first part of Alina's debut CD for Hyperion, KA Hartmann's Concerto Funèbre
17 November 2006 Alina has been asked to replace the soloist in a performance of the Sibelius violin concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony and Osmo Vänskä at Symphony Hall Birmingham (in the middle of her Britten Sinfonia lunchtime concerts tour)
29 September 2006 Alina has been asked by the Sjaellands Symphony Orchestra to step-in at the last minute to perform KA Hartmann's Concerto Funèbre in four concerts next week! Luckily she performed the piece with the BBC Concert Orchestra on BBC Radio 3 on Monday.
24 August 2006 Alina recorded Bach's Partita No.2 in D minor especially for free download from this site. The recording was made at London's Wigmore Hall.