Wednesday 26th November 2014 10AM-1PM RECITAL HALL Violin Masterclass with Alina Ibragimova RCM String Residencies are supported by the Georg and Emily von Opel Foundation 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 baroque to new commissions on both modern and period instruments, Alina has appeared with orchestras including the London Symphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC Symphony, Deutsches Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Stuttgart Radio Symphony and the Philharmonia, with conductors including Valery Gergiev, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Mark Elder, Vladimir Jurowski, Richard Hickox, Paavo Järvi, Osmo Vänskä, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Edward Gardner and Gianandrea Noseda. As soloist/director Alina has performed with the Kremerata Baltica in Paris, Salzburg and Verbier, and has toured with the Britten Sinfonia and Australian Chamber Orchestra. In recital and chamber music Alina has appeared at venues including the Wigmore Hall (for whom she and her regular recital partner Cédric Tiberghien performed & recorded the complete Beethoven violin sonatas), Concertgebouw, Mozarteum, Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, Palais des Beaux Arts, and at festivals including Salzburg, Verbier, MDR Musiksommer, City of London, Lockenhaus, Manchester, Edinburgh and Aldeburgh. Born in Russia in 1985 Alina is a former pupil of the Moscow Gnesin and Yehudi Menuhin schools and the Royal College of Music London, where her teachers have included Natasha Boyarsky, Gordan Nikolitch and Christian Tetzlaff. Alina records for Hyperion Records for whom she has made a number of CDs including the Bach Sonatas and Partitas, concertos by Hartmann and Roslavets, and Szymanowski and Ravel with Cédric Tiberghien. Alina has been the recipient of the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award, a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award, winner of a Classical BRIT, and a member of the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme. She performs on a 1738 Pietro Guarneri of Venice violin kindly provided by Georg von Opel. Wei-Ting Wu Ysaye Violin Sonata No.4 in e minor Allemanda Sarabande Finale *** Anna Ziman violin Sasha Gracheva piano Barber Violin Concerto op 14 Allegro *** Yume Fujise violin Maria Tarasewicz piano Beethoven Violin Sonata no 3 E flat major op 12 Allegro con spirito *** Olivia Francis violin Susie Summers piano Prokofiev Sonata no 2 in D major Op 94b Moderato Presto Andante Allegro con brio