Alexandra Soumm, Violin

ALEXANDRA SOUMM, VIOLIN

Born in Moscow, Alexandra Soumm started to learn the violin with her father at the age of five and gave her first concert two years later in the Ukraine. In 2000, she entered the Vienna Conservatory and the Graz University of Music in the class of the eminent pedagogue Boris Kuschnir. She made her debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in 2002 after winning the Grand Prize of the Vienna Conservatory Competition. Following her triumph at the 2004 Eurovision Competition for young musicians in Lucerne, she was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Scholarship of the Karajan Centrum in Vienna.Alexandra has appeared with many leading orchestras in France, including the Orchestre National de Lyon (Michel Plasson), Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (Sokhiev), Orchestre National de Montpellier (Valcuha), Orchestre National d'Ile de France (Mazzola) and Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice with (Lodéon). Alexandras debut with the Orchestre de Paris and Neeme Järvi came in 2009 when she performed the Bruch concerto at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. She subsequently returned to the orchestra in January 2011. Recent highlights in Alexandras diary include engagements with the National Philharmonic of Russia (Spivakov), Trondheim Symphony (Sondergard), Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (Varga and Csaba), Zurich Chamber Orchestra (Tang), NHK Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and Tokyo Symphony. With the Israel Philharmonic, she has played the first Paganini concerto with Yoel Levi and Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Mozart Concerto no.4 and Mozart Concerto no.3 with Herbert Blomstedt.A keen chamber musician, Alexandra has given recitals at the Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Wigmore Hall (London), City of London Festival, Toppan Hall (Tokyo) and Shirakawa Hall (Nagoya). She also regularly appears at international festivals such as Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Strasbourg, St Denis, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Deauville, Dubrovnik, Menton, Montpellier, Besancon, Montreux-Vevey, the Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano and the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad.Since joining BBC Radio 3s

Nordic Artists Management / Denmark VAT number: DK29514143 http://nordicartistsmanagement.com New Generation Artists scheme at the beginning of the 2010-11 season, Alexandra has worked with most of the BBC ensembles. Highlights in her 2012-13 season include the Sibelius Humoresques with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana (Vedernikov), Glazunov concerto with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Helsinki Philharmonic (Vásquez), Beethoven Triple Concerto with the BBC Symphony (Parry) and Mendelssohn concerto with the Bournemouth Symphony (Hughes). She will also return to the Auditorium du Louvre in a chamber programme. In the spring of 2008 Alexandras debut recording of the Bruch and Paganini concertos was released on the Claves label. Le Monde de la Musique described her interpretation as displaying a passionate and lyrical personality. Her second disc with Claves, a recording of the violin sonatas by Grieg, was released in spring 2010.The violin Alexandra plays on is made by Giovanni Baptista Guadagnini in Turin c.1785 and is known as the ex- Kavakos. The loan of the instrument by a benefactor is a part of the London Music Masters Award (2012-15) and has kindly been arranged through Florian Leonhard Fine Violins, London.

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