Born in Russia in 1985, Ibnragimova is a former pupil of the Moscow Gnesin and Yehudi Menuhin schools and the Royal College of Music London, where her teachers have included Shriver Hall Concert Series favorite Christian Tetzlaff.

Performing music from baroque to new commissions on both modern and period instruments, Ibragimova has appeared with orchestras including the London Symphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC Symphony, Deutsches Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Stuttgart Radio Symphony, and the Philharmonia with conductors Gergiev, Mackerras, Gardiner, Jurowski, Hickox, Paavo Järvi, Vänskä, and Nézet-Séguin. As soloist/director, she has performed with the Kremerata Baltica in Paris, Salzburg, and Verbier and has toured with the Britten Sinfonia and Australian Chamber Orchestra.

In recital and chamber music, Ibragimova has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, where she and her regular recital partner Cédric Tiberghien performed and recorded the complete Beethoven violin sonatas. She has also appeared at the Concertgebouw, Mozarteum, Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, Palais des Beaux Arts and at festivals including Salzburg, Verbier, MDR Musiksommer, City of London, Lockenhaus, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Aldeburgh.

Ibragimova has recorded the Bach Sonatas and Partitas, concertos by Hartmann and Roslavets, and Szymanowski and Ravel with Cédric Tiberghien. She is the recipient of the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award, a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award, winner of a Classical BRIT, and a member of the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme. She performs on a 1738 Pietro Guarneri of Venice violin kindly provided by Georg von Opel.

Tiberghien studied at the Paris Conservatoire and in 1992 at age seventeen was awarded the Premier Prix. He was then a prize-winner at major international piano competitions in Bremen, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Geneva, and Milan, culminating with First Prize at the prestigious 1998 Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris along with five special awards, including the Audience Award and the Orchestra Award. These awards propelled his international career and led to more than 150 engagements worldwide, including seven visits to Japan and showcase appearances throughout Europe.

Tiberghien’s international career takes him across five continents to the world’s most prestigious halls, including the Kennedy Center, the Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall and Barbican in London, the Salle Pleyel and the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris, Berlin’s Bechstein Hall, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, the Sydney Opera, and Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan and Asahi Halls.

He is a dedicated chamber musician with regular partners including violinist Alina Ibragimova, soprano Sophie Karthäuser, and cellist Pieter Wispelwey. His passion for chamber music is reflected in numerous recordings –the complete works for violin and piano by Szymanowski and the complete Beethoven violin sonatas, both with Ibragimova.

His US concerto debut, performing Messaien’s Turangalila with the National Symphony in Washinton under Eschenbach attracted unanimous critical acclaim and led to an immediate invitation from the Boston Symphony for two concerts there and one at Carnegie Hall. With more than sixty concertos in his repertoire, Tiberghien has appeared with the world’s finest orchestras and conductors.