Alena Baeva

Born in 1985 into a musical family, Alena Baeva took her first violin lessons aged just five. She studied at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, in France at the personal invitation of Mstislav Rostropovich, and in Switzerland at the Seiji Ozawa International Academy. Baeva won the International Henryk Wieniawski Competition in 2001, the Moscow International Niccolò Paganini Competition in 2004, and the Sendai International Violin Competition in 2007. Her growing repertoire includes over 40 violin concertos, and she has also recorded widely. She has long collaborated with conductors Valery Gergiev and Vladimir Jurowski, under whose baton she made her debut as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2018–19 concert season. In the field of chamber music Baeva has worked with such notable figures as Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Steven Isserlis, Nikolai Lugansky and Misha Maisky. Alena Baeva plays a Guarneri del Gesù violin made in 1738.

Alena Baeva

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