Alina Pogostkina
Praised for her “deeply moving” performances (Hamburger Abendblatt), Alina Pogostkina, winner of the 2005 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, performs at many of the world’s most renowned festivals and concert venues. She has collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gustavo Dudamel, David Zinman, Jonathan Nott, Paavo Järvi, Michael Sanderling, David Afkham, Robin Ticciati, Thomas Hengelbrock and John Storgårds. This season, Alina Pogostkina returns to the Philharmonia Orchestra directed by Xian Zhang and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with Clemens Schuldt. She returns to the Stuttgart State Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Chamber music projects connect her with fellow musicians such as Dorothea Oberlinger and the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, Nimrod Guez and Danjulo Ishizaka. Previously have included engagements with L’Orchest ra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Rundfunk sinfonieorchester Berlin, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sakari Oramo, also Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, NHK and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestras, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, SWR Symphonieorchester, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and hr-Sinfonieorchester. Also she had huge success with Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and St. Petersburg Philharmonic orchestras.
Alina Pogostkina performs at festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Bergen, Salzburger Festspiele, Edinburgh International Festival, Grafenegg Festival, Istanbul Music Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival an d Easter Festival Aix-en-Provence. Following studies of the baroque violin with Reinhard Goebel at Mozarteum Salzburg, Alina Pogostkina displays impressive versatility in diverse and wide-ranging repertoire from baroque and classical, often played on gut strings, to the modern masterworks. Collaborations with Reinhard Goebel include performances with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln. An ardent chamber musician, she has worked with musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Menahem Pressler, Christoph Eschenbach, Pekka Kuusisto, Maxim Rysanov, Jörg Widmann and Joshua Bell. Appearing in numerous radio and television recordings and broadcasts, Pogostkina's passion for contemporary music is evident in her highly acclaimed recording of Pēteris Vasks’ complete violin works, released in Spring 2012.
Born in St. Petersburg, Alina Pogostkina grew up in Germany and received violin lessons from her father Alexander Pogostkin in the beginning. She later studied with Antje Weithaas at Berlin’s Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler.