{"id":6158,"date":"2025-05-14T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/ksenija-sidorova-accordeon\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:30:27","slug":"ksenija-sidorova-accordion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/ksenija-sidorova-accordion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ksenija Sidorova, accordion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1538679572306{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4259 size-full alignjustify alignjustify alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ksenija-sidorova-dr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Praised as \u201csuperbly subtle and virtuosic\u201d (<em>The Arts Desk<\/em>) and \u201can amazingly accomplished artist\u201d (<em>Classical Source<\/em>), Ksenija Sidorova is the leading ambassador for the accordion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Encouraged to take up the instrument by a grandmother steeped in the folk tradition of accordion playing, Ksenija started to play the instrument aged eight under the guidance of Marija Gasele in her hometown of Riga.\u00a0 Her quest for more exposure to both classical and contemporary repertoire took her to London where she became a prize-winning undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music studying under Owen Murray.\u00a0She subsequently received her Masters Degree with Distinction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2009 Ksenija made her debut at London\u2019s Wigmore Hall and appeared in the Park Lane Group Young Artists Showcase prompting <em>The Times<\/em> to single her out as\u00a0 \u201cone of the real finds of the series\u201d. In May 2012 she became the first International Award winner of the Bryn Terfel Foundation, and this year appears at the Royal Albert Hall as part of his 50th birthday celebrations alongside Sting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A recipient of both the Philharmonia Orchestra\u2019s Martin Musical Scholarship and Friends of the Philharmonia Award, as well as the Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal, Ksenija has just been appointed a Junge Wilde Artist by the Konzerthaus Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ksenija regularly collaborates with Milo\u0161 Karadagli\u0107, Juan Diego Fl\u00f3rez, Nicola Benedetti, Thomas Gould and Joseph Calleja. She works extensively with Avi Avital who, along with Itamar Doari, comprise the trio for the \u201cBetween Worlds\u201d project which this year sees performances at Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe, throughout Germany and on a substantial US tour (including dates in Boston, Washington and New York) in spring 2016. She has also appeared on Arte\u2019s \u201cStars von Morgen\u201d with Rolando Villaz\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Forthcoming highlights include performances of Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr <em>Prophecy<\/em> with the NHK Symphony and Paavo J\u00e4rvi; a tour with Latvian National Symphony Orchestra; and concerts with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, WDR Rundfunkorchester, and at the Cheltenham and Bad Kissingen Festivals.\u00a0She makes her debut at the Vancouver Recital Series in September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1538679572306{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Praised as \u201csuperbly subtle and virtuosic\u201d (The Arts Desk) and \u201can amazingly accomplished artist\u201d (Classical Source), Ksenija Sidorova is the leading ambassador for the accordion. &nbsp; Encouraged to take up the instrument by a grandmother steeped in the folk tradition of accordion playing, Ksenija started to play the instrument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6158\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}