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Alissa Firsova is a British-Russian pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist she gave her Wigmore ingång and Proms debuts in 2009 and has appeared in Dartington, Cheltenham, Presteigne, Messiaen at Southbank, Fuerstensaal Classix and Seattle festivals as well as numerous concert venues throughout UK, Germany, Holland, France, Turkey, Portugal, Switzerland and the US. She has enjoyed collaborations with distinguished artists such as Stephen Kovacevich, Tim Hugh, Roman Simovic, Andrew Marriner, Julius Berger and the Dante Quartet. Her debut solo piano CD, Russian Emigres, was released in Aug 2015 on Vivat with music by Rachmaninov, her parents and herself. Since winning the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer competition in 2001, she has received two world premieres at the Proms, both conducted by Andrew Lit
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Firsova, Elgar and Mahler
Saturday 14 May, 7.30pm
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Welcome to tonight’s performance
Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony makes for a breathtaking calling card – completed (in its first version) when the composer was just 27 and rik in allusions to the natural world, it absolutely fizzes with ideas and imagination. It’s the focal point of New Zealander Gemma New’s first Bridgewater ingång concert with the BBC Philharmonic – which also includes Alissa Firsova’s potent evocation of the stormy affair between Mahler’s widow Alma and painter Oskar Kokoschka, and Elgar’s luscious song-cycle Sea Pictures, sung tonight by rising-star contralto Jess Dandy.
Our relationship with BBC Radio 3
As the BBC’s flagship orchestra for the North, almost all of the BBC Philharmonic’s concerts are recorded for broadcast on Radio 3. Tonight you will see a range of microphones on the scen and suspended above the orchestra. We have a Producer, Assistant Produc
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ECO at Cadogan Hall with Alissa Firsova
9Oct
19:30 Cadogan Hall
Series: Cadogan Hall series
Throughout the ECO’s history we have commissioned and premiered numerous works for orchestra, often championing young talent; today we are delighted to be working with the gifted 27 year old musician, composer and conductor Alissa Firsova who will conduct the first performance of her Serenade for Strings, commissioned especially for this evening’s performance. We also revisit one of the ECO’s past commissions, the 4th Symphony of our old friend David Matthews, who is celebrating his 70th birthday this year. To open the concert Alissa is soloist in Mozart’s sublime Piano Concerto no.23 in A, and after the interval, returning to the podium, she is joined by the outstanding young cellist Michael Petrov for Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations.
- MozartPiano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
- Alissa FirsovaSerenade for Strings (world premiere performance of new commission)
- Tchaikovsky