Alina Ibragimova
| Alina Ibragimova | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
28 September 1985 Polevskoy, Russian SSR, USSR |
| Genres | Baroque, classical |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist |
| Instruments | Violin |
| Years active | 1998- |
| Labels | Hyperion |
| Notable instruments | |
| Violin: 1738 Pietro Guarneri of Venice | |
Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova, MBE (Russian: Али́на Рина́товна Ибраги́мова; born 28 September 1985) is a Russian-British violinist.
Ibragimova was born in Polevskoy, Russian SSR, to a Tatar family. Her family was musical, and she began playing the violin at the age of 4. At 5 she started at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow, studying under Valentina Korolkova, and by the age of 6 had started her career by playing with various orchestras, including the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. She was aged 10 in 1996 when her father, Rinat Ibragimov, took up the post of principal double bass with the London Symphony Orchestra, and the family moved to England. In the following year, Ibragimova began her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School (where her mother is professor of violin) under Natasha Boyarskaya.
In December 1998, Ibragimova performed with Nicola Benedetti at the opening ceremony of the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at UNESCO in Paris; they played Bach's double violin concerto under the baton of Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin died three months later, and Ibragimova performed the slow movement of the same concerto at his funeral in Westminster Abbey.
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