Alina Ibragimova

A prodigy who attained wide success in her teens and early twenties, violinist Alina Ibragimova has been especially visible as a chamber music player. With pianist Cédric Tiberghien, she has recorded well-regarded cycles of Mozart's and Beethoven's violin-and-piano sonatas. Ibragimova was born in Polevskov, Russia, then part of the USSR, on September 28, 1985. She took up the violin at four, and the following year was moved to the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow. A year after that came a performance with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Ibragimova's parents were both m...