Maker Aisha Orazbayeva

Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva (1985) effortlessly navigates between old and new repertoire. This is amply evidenced by her four solo albums, which feature her own work alongside music from Telemann to Sciarrino. In those recordings, The New Yorker magazine hears an extraordinary ‘unanimity of head, heart, and hands’. Aisha is clearly constantly seeking new horizons, but she does so without ever losing sight of the familiar. During the chamber music festival Têtes-à-têtes, she presents her latest album Darkness. With her on violin and her husband Peiman Khosravi on electronics, it is a mash-up of old and new classical music, imbued with electro, pop and ambient.