In something of a coup for Hexham and District Music Society, she will stop off mid-way through her current tour to perform at the Queen’s Hall on the evening of Thursday, December 15.
While she will play some of Bach’s most cerebral and disciplined pieces, unaccompanied, during the first half of the programme, during the second half she will play the more passionate and technically demanding music of Isaÿe.
Russian by birth, Alina (31) came to England with her family when her father, renowned double bass player Rinat Ibragimov, took up a professorship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and membership of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Alina herself was taught the violin by her mother from the age of four, first began performing when she was six and subsequently went on to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School, in Surrey, and the Royal College of Music, in London.
Having already put in special appearances with some of the biggest orchestras in Europe and America and played a prominent role in the 2015 BBC Proms, she has another exciting year looming.
Future engagements include debuts with the Boston Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Tokyo Symphony.
First, though, there’s that gig in Hexham. Tickets are available now from the Queen’s Hall box office.
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