Alina Pogostkina
Alina Pogostkina ( born November 18, 1983 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a German violinist.
Biography
Alina Pogostkina comes from a musical family. The father Alexander is a violin teacher, mother is a violinist in an orchestra. Since the age of four Pogostkina Alina is taught by her father and exercises daily for up to four hours. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the father received no wages for months. Then in 1992 the family emigrated from Heidelberg.
A few months struck the family with street music through before Alina on birthdays were small concerts or playing in churches. Since the end of primary school Alina Pogostkina takes on the insistence of her father's violin competitions that she detested earlier: "For me, this has little to do with music that's more sport." She now lives in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and is studying at the Academy of Music " Hanns Eisler" Berlin. There Christoph Poppen was her teacher, since 2004, she studied with Antje Weithaas. She has participated in master classes with Dorothy DeLay, Ruggiero Ricci, Dimitri Sitkovetzky and Tibor Varga.
Alina Pogostkina belongs to the " new violinists " by Andreas Morell on 3sat so-called, should read: Internationally acclaimed soloist, who advanced in a short time to Shooting Stars. These counts Morell next Pogostkina Leila Josefowicz ( born 1977, Canada), Janine Jansen (born 1978, Netherlands), Lisa Batiashvili ( b. 1979, Georgia) and Baiba Skride (* 1981, Latvia).
Appearances
The artist performs at music festivals such as the Schwetzingen Festival, the Mozart Festival in Würzburg, the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg -Vorpommern and in Aspen (USA), the Weilburg Castle concerts, the Salzburg Festival with Gidon Kremer, the Dresden Music Festival and the chamber Music Festival curls house. She also played with Yuri Bashmet and Menaham Pressler together in Chamber Music Connects the World Kronberg Academy.
Soloist
As a soloist she played with the Russian National Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the China National Symphony Orchestra, the Nederlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, Kremerata Baltica, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish National Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
She has worked with conductors such as Mikhail Pletnev, Gennadi Roshdestvensky, Sir Roger Norrington, Gilbert Varga, Marek Janowski Christoph Eschenbach, Hartmut Haenchen and Mikko Franck.
Instrument
Alina Pogostkina plays since February 2013 a violin by Antonio Stradivari ( Sasserno 1717), which was provided to her by the " Nippon Music Foundation " is available.
Awards
- 2001 4th place at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels
- 2002 prize winner at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis ( U.S. )
- 2005 1st prize at the 9th International Sibelius Competition in Helsinki as the first German
Discography
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
- Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Solo Violin, Op 31, No. 2
- Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for solo violin, Op 115
- Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata, Op 27, No. 3
- Nathan Milstein: Paganiniana
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