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14-536: A number of internationally renowned soloists have played with the orchestra including Alina Ibragimova , Giovanni Guzzo and Martin Owen . The FSO has collaborated with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on a number of projects and performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC London. Notable performances have included: Their 2011 performance of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony at London's St John's Smith Square ,

28-801: A Classical BRIT. She performs on a c.1775 Anselmo Bellosio provided by Georg von Opel . Ibragimova was awarded the 2019 RPS Instrumentalist Award. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to music. In 2015 Ibragimova married Tom Service , a writer and classical music critic, whom she met when he interviewed her for The Guardian . They lived in Greenwich , London. The couple divorced in 2018. Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen ( unofficial English translation : Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic)

42-579: Is a chamber orchestra based in Bremen ( Germany ), with place of residence in the historical building Stadtwaage . A group of music students founded the orchestra in 1980 in Frankfurt , initially as an ensemble which the musicians own solely and without a conductor. The musicians assume responsibility for financial as well as artistic management. About 40% of the organisation's costs come from German governmental authorities. They have worked with researchers at

56-806: The Kronberg Academy Masters programme. After winning several international competitions, in 2002 Ibragimova won the London Symphony Orchestra Music Scholarship (formerly the Shell Prize), an important early boost to her career. The next breakthrough came in 2005 when Ibragimova played and directed Mozart 's second violin concerto with the Kremerata Baltica in Mozartwoche at the Salzburg Mozarteum . Ibragimova

70-771: The University of Saarbrücken to develop a management tool, the "5 Seconds Model". Notable early concerts included a 1983 appearance at the United Nations and performances with Gidon Kremer at the Lockenhaus Festival in 1984 and 1985. The orchestra acquired professional status in 1987, and moved to Bremen in 1992. An offshoot group, the Wind Soloists of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has been an established ensemble since 1990. In Bremen,

84-766: The period-instrument Chiaroscuro Quartet, a string quartet specialising in music from the classical and early romantic periods played on gut strings with historical bows. Over the last seasons Alina has performed concertos with Budapest Festival Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Gürzenich-Orchester and Dresden Philharmonic, working with Robin Ticciati, Edward Gardner, Daniel Harding, Nathalie Stutzmann, Vladimir Jurowski and Maxim Emelyanychev among others. In recital, Alina performs regularly at London´s Wigmore Hall, Berlin´s Pierre Boulez Saal, Hamburg´s Elbphilharmonie, Tokyo´s Metropolitan Theatre and

98-674: The BBC Proms where she performed Bach´s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in the Royal Albert Hall. She frequently collaborates with pianist Cédric Tiberghien, and is a founding member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet. Ibragimova has received a number of awards, including the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award 2010, and Emily Anderson Prize (the youngest-ever winner), Borletti-Buitoni Trust, and

112-647: The following year, Ibragimova began her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School (where her mother was 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

126-908: The orchestra presents two subscription series, special concerts, two chamber music series, and an open-air festival 'Summer in Lesmona'. The orchestra has been the orchestra-in-residence at the Bremen Music Festival since 1998 and at the International Beethovenfest in Bonn since 2005. Beginning in 2017 the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is the orchestra-in-redidence at the Kissinger Sommer festival. Past conductors who have served as either principal guest conductors or artistic directors have included Mario Venzago , Heinrich Schiff , Jiří Bělohlávek , and Thomas Hengelbrock . Daniel Harding

140-524: The orchestra was sponsored by Fulham Borough Council (later the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham ) until the 1980s. Alina Ibragimova 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 Tartar family. Her family was musical, and she began playing

154-636: The slow movement of the same concerto at his funeral in Westminster Abbey . After finishing her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Ibragimova went on to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for a year, and then to the Royal College of Music , studying under Gordan Nikolitch and baroque violin with Adrian Butterfield. She has also studied with Christian Tetzlaff under the auspices of

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168-660: The violin at age four. At 5, she started at the Gnessin School of Music 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

182-695: Was a member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme 2005–7. She has performed concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra , Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Philharmonia Orchestra , City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , BBC Symphony Orchestra , Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt , and the Seattle Symphony , working with conductors including Sir Charles Mackerras , Valery Gergiev , Sir John Eliot Gardiner , Paavo Järvi , Richard Hickox and Osmo Vänskä . In 2005, Ibragimova formed

196-507: Was described by Bachtrack as "a terrific performance by splendid band". The Guardian's classical music critic wrote of being "surprised and impressed" by a performance in 2009. For nearly 30 years the musical director of the orchestra was Joseph Vandernoot . Later musical directors included Andrea Quinn , Peter Stark , Roland Roberts and Levon Parikian. Since 2001 the FSO's conductor has been Marc Dooley. Originally named Fulham Municipal Orchestra,

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