Alexandra Soumm

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Alexandra Soumm
Born (1989-05-17) 17 May 1989 (age 34)
Moscow, Russia
Origin Montpellier, France
Genres Classical
Occupation(s)Violinist
Instrument(s)Violin
Labels Claves Records
Website alexandrasoumm.com

Alexandra Soumm (born 17 May 1989 in Moscow, Russia) is a French violinist from Montpellier.

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Early life

Soumm was born in 1989 and comes from a family of musicians. Her Ukrainian father and grandfather were violinists, and her a Russian mother pianist. She grew up in Montepellier, France, and lives in Paris. [1] [2]

She started learning the violin at the age of five, and two years later, at the age of seven, gave her first performance.

From 2000–2008 she was at the University of Graz doing a preparation course. She studied at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna with Boris Kuschnir. [3]

Career

In 2002 she won the Fidelio competition for violins of Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. She won the Eurovision Young Musicians 2004 representing Austria in Lucerne, Switzerland. She was a member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme during its 2010–2012 season. [4] She had solo performances with the London Philharmonic, BBC London, NKK Tokio, Danish National Orchester, Münchner Symphoniker, Baltimore Symphony, Orchestre de Paris. She performed with many conductors including Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Herbert Blomstedt, Osmo Vänskä, Marin Alsop, and Seiji Ozawa. [5] [4] [6] [7] [8] [9] [1] [10] [11] [12]

Soumm participates in events with young musicians, like the Ilumina Festival in Brazil. In 2012 she created the Esperanz'Arts organisation [13] with Maria Mosconi, altiste, and pianist Paloma Kouider. In 2019 it had a hundred members, and partners with hospitals, prisons, schools. [14] [15] [16]

Records

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References

  1. 1 2 Montpellier : Alexandra Soumm, violoniste soliste solidaire, Midi Libre, 2014-02-25.
  2. ↑ Famed violinist set to perform in Columbus, nbc4i, 2018-12-07
  3. ↑ "Alexandra Soumm". medici.tv. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
  4. 1 2 "Alexandra Soumm - Concerts, Biography & News - BBC Music". BBC. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  5. ↑ Alexandra Soumm, Violine, orf.at, 2011-02-11.
  6. ↑ PREISTRÄGERINNEN 2002—2018 Archived 2019-09-07 at the Wayback Machine , Alexandra Soumm, Violin, 2002.
  7. ↑ Alexandra Soumm, Student Page on Biris Koschnirs page.
  8. ↑ Alexandra Soumm Archived 2019-05-01 at the Wayback Machine at London Music Masters
  9. ↑ Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women, Washington Post, 2016-05-16.
  10. ↑ Philharmonia deliver "a wonderful evening of music" at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, Soumm about live, career, music business, Cambridge News, 2017-03-05.
  11. ↑ Alexandra Soumm Archived 2019-05-03 at the Wayback Machine , Ex-Kavakos, accessed 2019-05-03
  12. ↑ Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla brings her magic back to the Bowl, Los Angeles Times, 2015-08-21
  13. ↑ "Alexandra Soumm". www.arabella-arts.com. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
  14. ↑ Alexandra Soumm Projects, e.g. Iluminati
  15. ↑ Boccherini Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid, Illuminati festival , Alexandra Soumm e Tai Murray, violino, Julia Gartemann, viola, Giovanni Gnochhi e Guilherme Moraes, cello, Joseph Conyers, contrabaixo , e o ensemble do festival, 2016-07-22
  16. ↑ Des concerts pour créer du lien social, France Musique, 2019-02-23
  17. ↑ "Alexandra Soumm – Bruch*, Paganini* – Violin Concertos No.1".
  18. ↑ "Grieg - The Violin Sonatas. Alexandra Soumm, David Kadouch".
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