Cello
Sunnat Ibragimov joined the Seattle Symphony in the 2023/2024 season. He started playing cello at the age of 7, ultimately continuing his studies at the Glière State Music School and then the Uzbek State Conservatory in his native city of Uzbekistan. He studied with Jahongir Ibragimov in Tashkent and subsequently earned his bachelor’s degree from Park University’s International Center for Music as a student of Martin Storey and Daniel Veis. After further study with Andrew Shulman and Ben Hong at the University of Southern California, he recieved a master’s degree from the University of Kansas, then went on to earn his Doctor of Musical Arts from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, where he was a student of Alan Stepansky.
He has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Uzbek National Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony, and with chamber musicians such as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Roberto Diaz and the Borromeo String Quartet. His teaching resume includes Pittsburg State University, Manhattan Arts Center at Kansas State University and Peabody Preparatory, among others. He has taken part in the festivals at Aspen, Tanglewood and Orford in Canada, and he has worked with conductors such as Carl St. Clair, Gerard Schwarz, John Williams and Marin Alsop. Ibragimov has taken part in master classes with Truls Mørk, Daniel Müller-Schott, Lawrence Lesser, Colin Carr, Alicia Weilerstein, Alban Gerhardt and David Geringas, and in 2022, he led the cello section of the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra under the baton of Andris Nelsons.
