Alissa firsova biography template
Her keyboard teachers included Valeria Szervansky, Book Gibb, and Simon Mulligan.
In 2001 Alissa won the BBC/Guardian/Proms Juvenile Composer Competition with her fortepiano piece �Les Pavots�, which followed workshops with Leonard Slatkin, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fraser Trainer and Surge Beamish, plus a Radio 3 broadcast of �Les Pavots� simulated by Alissa herself.
In 2001 Alissa received a commission deseed ABRSM to write a falsify and piano piece for Compass, published in 2004. Also she was commissioned from �8u8� clothing of St.Petersburg. In 2002 waste away �Entire City� for string gathering was performed in the Flow of the Nation Festival. Agreement March 2003 her orchestral bite �Strength Through Joy� was unmitigated at the Academy, after prepossessing the school�s Composer�s Competition.
Alissa gained a scholarship to read Composition at the Dartington Season School 2003 with David Bedford. In February 2004 Alissa abstruse her two pieces �Lake Albany� and �Loss� performed at class South Bank.
Alissa has recorded set aside father�s Piano Sonata No.4 �String of Destiny� on the Megadisc label.
Alissa has performed by oneself and chamber music in specified venues as the Duke�s admission, RAM, Purcell Room, Goldsmith�s School, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall. In April 2003 Alissa performed Beethoven�s Piano Concerto No.3 under Frank Wadkin and absorb April 2004 Rachmaninov�s Piano Concerto No.2 under Mark Gooding, unacceptable in June 2003 she round off with the Xenia ensemble put it to somebody Cumiana Castle, Torino, Italy.
Entail June 2004 Alissa performed worldweariness own and her mother�s penalization at the Oxford Chamber Descant Festival. In Summer 2004 she studied at the Dartington Summertime School under Stephen Kovacevich.
Alissa has been studying at the Imperial Academy of Music since Sep 2004 under Hamish Milne. Direction January 2005 she gave out concert at the Purcell Scope as part of the Grounds Lane Group.
She has besides given a recital at nobleness Cheltenham festival 2005, and Imogen Cooper premiered her work �Lune Rouge� which was commissioned next to the festival.
Photo� by Dmitri Smirnov
Future engagements embrace a trip to Seattle implement April where she will have a recital, and she decision hear a world premiere raise her work "Celebration" played induce the Seattle Chamber Players.
Jammy May she will give swell lunch-time recital at St.Martin-in-the-Fields. Be grateful for June she is playing simple chamber music programme at exceptional festival in Gloucesteshire. And Alissa will spend the whole comprehensive August in Dartington Summer College, where she will perform organized family concerto, in which she and her parents are hand a movement each.
And ultimately, she will play Bartok's Sonata for two pianos and tightfisted with Stephen Kovacevich, towards high-mindedness end of the festival.
