Alina Pogostkina
Alina Pogostkina (born November 18, 1983 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) is a German violinist .
Life
Alina Pogostkina comes from a family of musicians. The father Alexander is a violin teacher, the mother is a violinist in an orchestra . Alina Pogostkina has been tutored by her father since she was four. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the father received no wages for months. The family then emigrated to Heidelberg in 1992 .
The family struggled for a few months before Alina gave small concerts on birthdays or played in churches. Since finishing elementary school, Alina Pogostkina took part in violin competitions at the insistence of her father, which she previously loathed: “For me it has little to do with music, it's more like sport.” Today she lives in Berlin in Prenzlauer Berg . She studied at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin . There was Christoph Poppen her teacher since 2004, she took lessons with Antje Weithaas. She took part in master classes with Dorothy DeLay , Ruggiero Ricci , Dimitri Sitkovetzky and Tibor Varga . and deepened his studies of the baroque violin with Reinhard Goebel at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Alina Pogostkina plays on a Camillo Camilli from 1752.
Alina Pogostkina was one of the so-called “New Violinists” by Andreas Morell in 3sat, which means: internationally acclaimed soloists who quickly became shooting stars. These included Morell, along with Pogostkina Leila Josefowicz (* 1977, Canada), Janine Jansen (* 1978, Netherlands), Lisa Batiashvili (* 1979, Georgia) and Baiba Skride (* 1981, Latvia).
Appearances
The artist appears at music festivals such as the Schwetzingen Festival , the Mozart Festival in Würzburg , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival and in Aspen (USA), the Weilburg Castle Concerts , the Salzburg Festival together with Gidon Kremer , the Dresden Music Festival and the Chamber Music Festival Lockenhaus on. She also played with Yuri Bashmet and Menaham Pressler together with Chamber Music Connects the World of Kronberg Academy .
In 2010 she was heard in the world premiere of Nicolas Bacris Quasi una fantasia for three solo violins and orchestra op. 118 in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden . She played with Lisa Batiashvili , Baïba Skride and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Constantinos Carydis .
Soloist
As a soloist she has played with the Russian National Orchestra, the Orchester National de Belgique, the China National Symphony Orchestra, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Kremerata Baltica, the Budapest Symphony, the BBC Scottish National Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra .
She worked with conductors such as Michail Pletnjow , Gennadi Roshdestvensky, Sir Roger Norrington , Gilbert Varga, Marek Janowski , Christoph Eschenbach , Hartmut Haenchen and Mikko Franck.
instrument
Alina Pogostkina has been playing a violin made by Antonio Stradivari (“Sasserno” from 1717) since February 2013 , which was loaned to her by the Nippon Music Foundation .
Awards
- 1995 1st prize in the 1st International Louis Spohr Competition in Weimar
- 1997 1st prize at the 7th International Louis Spohr Violin Competition in Freiburg as the youngest participant
- 1998 1st prize at the national youth music competition as the youngest participant
- 1999 “Prix de l'espoir” of the European Economic Community for the Promotion of Culture
- Prize winner at the Concours Tibor Varga in Sion
- 6th prize at the Concours Long - Thibaud in Paris
- 2001 4th place at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels
- 2002 Prize Winner at the International Violin Competition in Indianapolis (USA)
- 2005 1st prize at the 9th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki as the first German
- Award for the best interpretation at the Sibelius Violin Concerto
Discography
| released | Pieces | Contributors | Publisher / No. | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Violin solo
|
Podium, Wolfgang Wendel |
CD |
Web links
- Homepage of Alina Pogostkina
- Works by and about Alina Pogostkina in the catalog of the German National Library
- 10 questions for Alina Pogostkina
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Vesa Sirén: From Busker to Sibelius Violin Competition winner . In: Helsingin Sanomat , December 4, 2005
- ↑ With soft tones to a world career ( Memento of August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 28, 2005
- ↑ a b c d Jonathan Widder: It's all a question of character . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . April 9, 2006, No. 14, p. 29
- ↑ Homepage of the management
- ↑ a b c d e Homepage of Alina Pogostkina
- ↑ Andreas Morell: Strongly Strung - A declaration of love to the new violinists . In: 3sat , broadcast on December 11, 2006, 11.10 p.m.
- ↑ nmf.or.jp: About Nippon Music Foundation - Instruments Owned by Nippon Music Foundation , accessed January 11, 2018
- ^ Homepage of Wolfgang Wendel about Geiger
- ^ Homepage of the Sibelius Competition
- ↑ PODIUM WOW-016-2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pogostkina, Alina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad , Soviet Union |