News
August 2010
17 August: Alina will give the World Premiere, with the BBC Symphony & Edward Gardner, of a new violin concerto written for her by Huw Watkins. The concert will also be broadcast on BBC4. Huw wrote a solo Partita for Alina in 2006, premiered at the Wigmore Hall, and discussions about a concerto were begun immediately after the concert.
May 2010
25 May: The last concert of Alina & Cédric's Beethoven violin sonata cycle at the Wigmore Hall coincided with the release of the first CD of the cycle, recorded live last October at the first of the Wigmore concerts. Geoff Brown, writing in The Times, described the recording as "Spontaneous, impulsive, young and fresh, Ibragimova and Tiberghien make an electrifying partnership" and in his review of tonight's concert he wrote "These are ferociously gifted young musicians"
April 2010
22 April: The BBC Proms 2010 programme has been announced and Alina will perform a new violin concerto by Huw Watkins at the Royal Albert Hall on 17 August. Huw has previously written a solo violin Partita for Alina which she premiered at the Wigmore Hall in November 2006.
09 April: Alina has been shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Instrumentalist Award www.rpsmusicawards.com
February 2010
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January 2010
Click here to vote for Alina in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2010
December 2009
20 December: Alina's Szymanowski CD with Cédric Tiberghien is one of the the Boston Globe's top 10 albums of 2009
06 December: Alina's Bach CD is one of Hugh Canning's choices in the Sunday Times Top 100 Albums of 2009
October 2009
Five star reviews in The Guardian and Sunday Times (see reviews page) for Alina's new Bach CD, which will also be Editor's Choice in the next issue of Gramophone Magazine.
September 2009
Alina's recording of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin will be released by Hyperion Records on 01 October. The recordings were made in London last winter.
August 2009
Alina will perform at the BBC Proms on 29 August as part of the BBC's New Generation Artists weekend, when all the present and former members of the NGA scheme will perform.
July 2009
Alina's Szymanowski recital CD with Cédric Tiberghien has been awarded a Diapason d'Or by Diapason Magazine.
22 July: Alina will appear in interview and performance on BBC2's Culture Show following her three nights of solo Bach concerts at the Manchester International Festival. The programme will be broadcast at 7pm and will be available via the BBC iPlayer shortly afterwards.
13 July: Alina will appear on BBC Radio 4's Womans Hour both in interview and performing solo Bach.
May 2009
14 May: Alina has won the Young British Performer Classical BRIT 2009
01 May: Alina's third CD for Hyperion Records, the works for violin & piano by Karol Szymanowski, has just been released
April 2009
Alina has been nominated for a 2009 Classical BRIT award in the Young British Performer/Group category
Chiaroscuro Quartet will perform on BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme on Friday 10 April
February 2009
Alina's CD of the two Roslavets violin concertos has just won the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in the 'Bestenliste 1.2009' category.
January 2009
Alina's third CD for Hyperion, the complete violin works of Karol Szymanowski, recorded last year with Cédric Tiberghien, is now at the final editing stage and will be released in May.
Winter 2008/9
Alina performs and records the Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin by JS Bach this winter, in sessions in December, January & February. The CD will be released by Hyperion Records in summer 2009, to coincide with performances at the City Of London and Manchester International festivals.
