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Aleem Kandour

Violin

ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE

  • London Symphony Orchestra - 1st and 2nd violin trial (July 2024 - current)
  • London Mozart Players
  • Chineke! Orchestra
  • Amman Chamber Orchestra - Guest Leader
  • Bristol Ensemble - Leader
  • Barnes Festival Orchestra - Principal 2nd
  • Bath Festival Orchestra - Principal 2nd
  • Orpheus Sinfonia - No.2, 1st Violin
  • Kettner Philharmonic
  • Lewes Choir Orchestra
  • Chiswick Choir Orchestra
  • Southrepps String Orchestra - No. 2, 1st Violin
  • St Paul’s Sinfonia


CHAMBER MUSIC

  • Performance with Mitsu Trio as guest violinist @ Brazilian embassy, London (30/11/2022)
  • Black Lives in Music Performance in Hannover, Germany for CLASSICAL: Next - Principal 2nd
  • Hygge Ensemble; String Quartet, Recital at Cheltenham Music Festival
  • Recital at Emmanuel College, Cambridge with the Kandour Quarte
  • Vivaldi concerto for 4 violins at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Bolshoi Zal), Moscow with Maxim Vengerov for 100 year Jubilee Concert of M.M.Ippolitova-Ivanova Institute
  • Covent Garden Soloists - second violinist to Vasko Vassilev in TriOpera project
  • Quartet performance at Cadogan Hall, London
  • Performance at Wigmore Hall with Margarita Balanas (Cello)
  • Bach Double Concerto (2nd violin solo part) with Andrea Griminelli in the Tribute to Pavarotti concert in Petra, Jordan with Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

SOLO

  • Premiere of Mohydeen Quandour’s Circassian Violin Concerto with Black Sea Symphony Orchestra at the Melodies of the Caucasian Riviera Music Festival, Sochi
  • Sibelius Violin Concerto at the Royal College of Music with the Royal College of Music Philharmonic Orchestra for Maxim Vengerov's Orchestral Masterclass
  • Solo performance with Sochi State Symphony Orchestra at the Organ and Chamber music Hall, Sochi
  • Represented the UK in a solo recital for the UN organised peace concert in Hiroshima, Japan to commemorate the bombings at Bunka Gakuen HBG Hall
  • Solo debut performance in St Martin-in-the-Fields


AWARDS

  • M.M.Ippolitova-Ivanova Violin Competition, Moscow - 3rd prize & Audience prize
    • 2020 Boconnoc Chamber Music Award with the Kandour Quartet   2018                            
  • Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Young Musician’s Competition - Second prize 2011

EDUCATION

  • Royal College of Music, Master in Performance with Distinction 2017 - 2019 
  • Scholar of Ms Deborah Bacon and Trustees of the Derek Butler Trust
  • Teachers: Lutsia Ibragimova and Radu Blidar 
  • Royal College of Music, London, Bachelors of Music with II/i as Soirée d’Or Scholar Holder       2013 - 2017
  • Teacher: Natalia Boyarsky


REFEREES
Janice Graham: Leader & Artistic Director of English Sinfonia
Mark Batten: Head of Music at the Prince’s Gardens Preparatory School




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Instruments
Violin