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February 2026
Alissa is overjoyed that her music is travelling to the most musical city in the world for the very first time! Her Stabat Mater will be performed by the Wiener Motettenchor, along with Bach and Reger…
February 2026
Alissa was delighted to team up with star cellist David Cohen last Autumn for concerts in Amsterdam, London, Oxford & Munich. You can now enjoy some of their performances on a Youtube playlist filmed …
September 2025
Following the Proms premiere of Alissa’s Bergen’s Bonfire for the Bergen Philharmonic’s 250th Anniversary in 2015, the orchestral tone-poem, based on Ragnarok, will see its German premiere next season…
September 2025
Alissa is looking forward to returning to the Roman River Festival for a Shosta-vodka! extravaganza celebrating both the 50th Anniversary of Shostakovich’s death as well as his 119th birthday. Each me…
September 2025
Alissa is excited to be embarking on a recording project with the complete works for Violin and Piano by Joseph Haas for ARS with Ludmila Pavlová. A contemporary of Richard Strauss and founder of the …
February 2025
Alissa is very honoured to make her debut in one of UK’s top festivals in July 2025: she will be teaming up with rising stars, double-bassist Will Duerden, the Belinfante String Quartet and singers, D…
February 2025
After her Concertgebouw solo debut in 2018, recorded live onto double LP for Gutman Records - Alissa returns to the Amsterdam Piano Series next season for a Rachmaninoff feast, teaming up with one of …
February 2025
After a most heart-warming welcome and response from the Spanish premiere of Die Windsbraut by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Gemma New in Jan 2024, Alissa is welcomed back in L’Auditori, Barc…
January 2024
Alissa is honoured to be invited back to the Amigos de Musica of the Algarve for the 4th time to play chamber music with Tim Hugh and Andrew Marriner in June. After an inspire-trip leading to her Alga…
January 2024
As president of the Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra, Alissa is looking forward to celebrate their 75th Season as pianist, composer and conductor in March. She will be joining the orchestra for the 4th…
January 2024
Alissa’s orchestral tone-poem, Die Windsbraut is being truly swept up around the world this Season: inspired by the stormy love-story of Kokoschka and Alma Mahler, as well as his painting, bearing the…
January 2023
2023 opened with a special family affair in Chemnitz: ensemble01 dedicated an evening at the Galerie Morgner to the music of Alissa as well as her parents, Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov. Alissa is …
January 2023
Alissa is looking forward to the realisation of a concert in May, (postponed due to the pandemic) in memory of her father, Dmitri Smirnov: Echoes of the Unheard will celebrate music of her parents as …