Since 2005, when Alina Pogostkina became the first German to win the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki, she has appeared regularly with leading orchestras and at major festivals worldwide. She works with conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Lionel Bringuier, Gustavo Dudamel, Jonathan Nott, Paavo Järvi, Michael Sanderling, Kristiina Poska, Juraj Valčuha, David Afkham, Robin Ticciati, Thomas Hengelbrock and John Storgårds.
She has longstanding working partnerships with orchestras including the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the NHK and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestras in Japan, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France and the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. She recently made debuts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Mikko Franck, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä and the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Marin Alsop.
Highlights of the 2022/23 season have included performances with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the BBC Philharmonic, returns to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and the MDR Symphony Orchestra, and the continuation of her collaboration with the Camerata RCO.
She appears regularly at the Salzburg, Grafenegg, Edinburgh and Istanbul Festivals, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele and the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence.
Her chamber music partners include Pekka Kuusisto, Joshua Bell, Maxim Rysanov, Jörg Widmann, Maximilian Hornung and Dorothee Oberlinger, and the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca string ensemble. She has made a tour of Germany with her string trio partners Danjulo Ishizaka and Nimrod Guez.
Alina Pogostkina was born in St Petersburg, grew up in Germany and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. She also studied Baroque violin at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Reinhard Goebel.
Alina Pogostkina plays a Camillo Camilli violin from 1752.
