Alexandra Soumm

Introduction

This young violinist of outstanding ability and technique was born in Moscow, and now divides her time between France and Austria, where she studies intensively with Professor Kuschnir. In 2004 Alexandra won the Eurovision Competition for young musicians in Lucerne, and is the recipient of a number of scholarships including the presitgious Herbert von Karajan Scholarship of the Karajan Centrum in Vienna.

Alexandra's steadily growing repertoire list already includes the Beethoven concerto, Paganini no.1, Bruch, Glazunov, Mozart no.4, Sibelius, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Bach. Her repertoire development is paralleled by the rapidly expanding list of orchestras booking her; so far including the Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre national de Lyon, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and the Orcheastre national d'Ile de France.

Alexandra's debut recording released in 2008 on the Claves label was a double concerto CD comprising the Bruch and first Paganini concerto.

Biography

Alexandra Soumm was born in 1989 into a family of musicians. She started to learn the violin with her father at the age of five and gave her first concert two years later in the Ukraine.  In 2000, she entered the Vienna Conservatory and the Graz University of Music in the class of the eminent pedagogue Boris Kuschnir.  Alexandra won the Grand Prize of the Vienna Conservatory Competition in 2002, which led to an invitation to perform at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Alexandra was then selected by the Beracasa Foundation to perform at the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, her hometown.

Alexandra won the First Prize in the 2004 Eurovision Competition for young musicians in Lucerne and was subsequently awarded the Herbert von Karajan Scholarship of the Karajan Centrum in Vienna.

In 2006 she made her debut with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Yoel Levi, performing the first Paganini concerto and immediately secured a re-invitation to perform Mozart Concerto no. 4 in 2007 and again with Rafael Fruhbeck de Borgos in 2008.  Their collaboration is set to continue when Alexandra returns to perform Mozart with the IPO and Herbert Blomstedt in May 2011.

In January 2009 Alexandra made her debut with the Orchestre de Paris and Neeme Järvi performing the Bruch concerto at the Salle Pleyel in Paris.  Alexandra has appeared with many leading orchestras within France, including the Beethoven concerto with the Orchestre National de Lyon and Michel Plasson, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse with Tugan Sokhiev, the Orchestre National de Montpellier with Juraj Valcuha, the Orchestre National d'Ile de France with Enrique Mazzola and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice with Frédéric Lodéon.

Alexandra has performed the Glazunov concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Alexander Lazerev as well as with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and John Storgård, the Lalo Symphonie Espagnol with Frankfurt Radio Symphonieorchester and Lionel Bringuier, the Beethoven concerto with Alexander Shelley and the London Mozart Players and Mozart concerto no. 4 at the Vienna Konzerthaus with the Wiener Kammerorchester.  She recently performed the Mendelssohn concerto with the Grazer Philharmonic Orchestra with Johannes Fritzsch and the Sibelius concerto with Alexander Joel and the Staatsorchester Braunschweig.

Alexandra regularly appears at international festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Schleswig Holstein,  Strasbourg Festival, St Denis, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Martha Argerich festival in Lugano, the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, the Dubrovnik Festival, the Menton Festival, Festival de Musique de Besançon, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier and the Septembre Musical Festival in Montreux.

In the Spring of 2008 Alexandra’s debut recording of the Bruch and Paganini concertos was released on the Claves label, and Le Monde de la Musique described her interpretation as ‘displaying a passionate and lyrical personality’.  Future recording plans with Claves include the three sonatas for violin and piano by Grieg, which she will also perform in recital at the Auditorium du Louvre.

Alexandra’s 2009-10 season includes performances in the opening season concert of the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Beethoven concerto at the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona with the Orquesta Simfonica del Valles, her debut in Finland performing the Tchaikosvky concerto with Esa Heikkilä and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, the Poznan Philharmonic in Poland, the Odense Symphony with Alexander Vedernikov and a return to the Orchestre National d’Ile de France for performances of the Brahms concerto with Yoel Levi and the Bruch concerto with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Walter Weller at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad in February 2010.

Contact

Mark Hildrew

Rupert Chandler

Charlotte Yuen

Worldwide Management: Askonas Holt

Spain: Arcadia Musica  
Email: Aurélie-Jung Moron

Schedule

Opera de Massy, France
30 March 2010 20.00

Atrium Chaville, France
31 March 2010 20.45

Théâtre Sud-Est, Villeneuve Saint-Georges, France
1 April 2010 14.00

Salle Pleyel, Paris
4 April 2010 16.00

Montforthaus, Feldkirch, Austria
4 June 2010 19.30

Montforthaus, Feldkirch, Austria
6 June 2010 19.30

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