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Recommended Artists 2009 |
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Ksenija Sidorova, accordion |
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Click here to view Ksenija's repertoire list.
"I don't recall ever having seen an accordion on the Wigmore Hall platform, but this all too brief appearance certainly made a convincing case for more.
All three pieces were played by Sidorova with enormous charm and aplomb - truly a musician who deserved the accolade of this award concert."
Serena Fenwick, Musical Pointers (Wigmore Award prizewinners' concert, May 2009)
Classical accordionist Ksenija Sidorova was born in Latvia in 1988. She started playing accordion in her home town of Riga under the guidance of Marija Gasele at Riga 1st music school. Since 2005 she has been studying as an undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music in London, with Professor Owen Murray.
Ksenija is a winner of international competitions in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Italy. Recent engagements include a performance with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, a recital in Colston Hall (Bristol), a performance in Spitalfields Festival and DMCE symposium (Dramaturgie Musicale Conteporaine en Europe, Paris, France).
She is a supporter and interpreter of contemporary music. In 2008 she gave the world premiere (dedicated to her) of "Who's the Puppet?" by Artem Vassiliev and the British premiere of "Air" by Hans Abrahamsen, and also played a series of new pieces at workshops of the Institute of Music Research. Ksenija has worked with such composers as Stefano Gervasoni, Nirmali Fenn, Samantha Fernando, Carlos Duque, Elspeth Brooke and Patrick Nunn.
In February 2009 Ksenija won "Friends of the Royal Academy of Music Wigmore Award", which led to Wigmore Hall debut on May 18, 2009. She has also won Worshipful Company of Musicians Maisie Lewis Award, Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Award, and has been selected to appear in Park Lane Group Young Artists New Year Series 2010.
Ksenija collaborates with the Brooks String quartet, with whom they have been finalists in both the 2008 Royal Academy of Music Club Prize and the Royal Overseas League in March 2009, where they have also received Elias Fawcett Award for an outstanding ensemble.
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