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Aisha Orazbayeva
musical Encounter with Fred Thomas
Programme will include music by J.S.Bach, Pisendel Sonata for Violin Solo, Paganini Caprice no. 6 & Biber Mystery Sonata no. 6
Photo credit to Amy Gibson.
Biography:
Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva is renowned for her fearless interpretations of contemporary music and radical approach to early repertoire. She has released four critically acclaimed solo albums with music ranging from her own compositions to Telemann and Sciarrino, the New Yorker describing her "Music for VIolin Alone" album as "unanimity of head, heart and hands". She has performed internationally in venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, HAU2 Berlin, Corum Montpellier for Radio France and Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe. In 2022 together with harpsichordist Prach Boondiskulchok Aisha performed all of Biber's Mystery Sonatas at the Spitalfields Festival in London.
As a composer she has written music for dance, theatre and film, including OUR SOLO a collaboration with ECCE dance company (touring in 2023 - 2024), Heartbreaking Final written with Tim Etchells and commissioned by Wiener Festwochen 2021, the piece was later performed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Aisha was a violin tutor at the Darmstadt Summer Course and has given a masterclass at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Together with pianist Mark Knoop Aisha received a Diapason d'Or for their recording of Morton Feldman's "For John Cage" in March 2019.
Aisha is a member of ICTUS ensemble in Brussels
To attend this concert in person: click here to reserve your seat.
Aisha Orazbayeva
musical Encounter with Fred Thomas
Programme will include music by J.S.Bach, Pisendel Sonata for Violin Solo, Paganini Caprice no. 6 & Biber Mystery Sonata no. 6
Photo credit to Amy Gibson.
Biography:
Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva is renowned for her fearless interpretations of contemporary music and radical approach to early repertoire. She has released four critically acclaimed solo albums with music ranging from her own compositions to Telemann and Sciarrino, the New Yorker describing her "Music for VIolin Alone" album as "unanimity of head, heart and hands". She has performed internationally in venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, HAU2 Berlin, Corum Montpellier for Radio France and Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe. In 2022 together with harpsichordist Prach Boondiskulchok Aisha performed all of Biber's Mystery Sonatas at the Spitalfields Festival in London.
As a composer she has written music for dance, theatre and film, including OUR SOLO a collaboration with ECCE dance company (touring in 2023 - 2024), Heartbreaking Final written with Tim Etchells and commissioned by Wiener Festwochen 2021, the piece was later performed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Aisha was a violin tutor at the Darmstadt Summer Course and has given a masterclass at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Together with pianist Mark Knoop Aisha received a Diapason d'Or for their recording of Morton Feldman's "For John Cage" in March 2019.
Aisha is a member of ICTUS ensemble in Brussels