Alina Pogostkina to teach in Basel in future

Alina Pogostkina was born in St. Petersburg, grew up in Germany and received her first violin lessons from her father Alexander Pogostkin. She later studied with Antje Weithaas at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music and furthered her baroque violin studies with Reinhard Goebel at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Alina Pogostkina plays a Camillo Camilli from 1752.

As the winner of the 2005 International Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, she has performed with major orchestras and festivals worldwide. Together with Danjulo Ishizaka and Nimrod Guez, she has founded a string trio with which she has already successfully toured Germany. With a view to the spiritual aspect of music, she developed the "Mindful Music Making" program in 2018, with which she tries to promote mindfulness and the development of individual creativity and musical language in the 21st century.