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Kristiana Ignatjeva

Latvian cellist Kristiana Ignatjeva is a scholar studying for her Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, London with professor Melissa Phelps and has received been awarded an Ian Evans Lombe scholarship. Kristiana has obtained degrees with distinction in Master of Performance and Bachelor of Music. In 2010 Kristiana joined the Purcell School of Music where she studied with professor Robert Cohen.

Kristiana has worked with many prominent musicians including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gianandrea Noseda, Vladimir Jurowski, Alan Gilbert, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Pinchas Zukerman, Nicola Benedetti, Sasha Rozhdestvensky, Zuill Bailey. Last season she gave performances of Elgar concerto with Nottingham Symphony Orchestra, Haydn C major concerto with the London Mozart Players and Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations in the UK. In November, she will be performing the Dvorak concerto with Essex Symphony Orchestra.

Kristiana has won many international and national competitions, recently being awarded the Muriel Taylor Scholarship (2016) and the First Prize and Unaccompanied Bach Prize at the Violoncello competition at the Royal College of Music, London (2018, 2017 and 2015). She has participated in many masterclasses with professors such as Jerome Pernoo, Hans- Jorgen Torleif, Christoph Richter, Hans-Jurgen Jensen, Franz Bartolomey, Melissa Kraut, Raphael Wallfisch, Hillel Zori, Natalie Clein and Johannes Goritzki.

Kristiana has given recitals across Europe and North America in major concert halls including the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall. She enjoys playing chamber music and regularly takes part in chamber music festivals across Europe. This season Kristiana is also one of the few musicians to be selected for the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme. She has also taken part in London Symphony Orchestra string experience scheme and English National Opera scheme.

Kristiana plays on an Italian cello by Matteo Goffriller kindly loaned by the Royal College of Music, London.

Alison Rhind is recognised as one of the leading collaborative pianists specialising in the repertoire for piano and strings. Her ability to accompany was recognised and nurtured at an early age whilst still at Chetham’s School of Music and she became increasingly in demand throughout her time at Oxford University where she read Music at Wadham College. Chetham’s invited her back immediately she had finished her degree but she completed her studies with Edith Vogel at the Guildhall School of Music before returning there.

In 1994, she moved to the Yehudi Menuhin School where she worked for twelve years. She toured Israel and Germany with the students and was invited to accompany at the prestigious Kronberg Akademie after her recitals there with the school. During this period, she coached many young instrumentalists with whom she has since forged notable recital partnerships particularly the violinists Alina Ibragimova and Nicola Benedetti with whom she toured the USA and Japan.

Due to increasing amounts of work outside of her job at the school, Alison left to become a freelance accompanist often working with students at the London colleges. The Royal College of Music recognised her work and in 2009 created a post for her as Coach for the String Department which she now combines with freelance recital work.

This concert is supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

Programme - 18 October 2019

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pezzo Capriccioso

Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky

 Sonata for cello and piano op. 71

Sir Edward Elgar    

Concerto for cello and piano op. 85

Lukas Foss 

 Capriccio (1948)

 

 

                  

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