“Tanya Karyagina, Ordabek Duissen and Allan Steele are consummate musicians. Together as the ALORTA TRIO, the music they make together is nothing short of breathtaking. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear them in concert!”

- Dotty Hall, President of Fort Worth Symphony League

ALORTA TRIO was founded in January of 2020 by the award-winning pianist Tanya Karyagina. Since then ALORTA TRIO has been in high demand performing to critical acclaim around the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and beyond, partnering with the Symphony League of Fort Worth and Spectrum Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth. Motivated by the desire to inspire the next generation of chamber musicians, ALORTA TRIO holds masterclasses and lecture-recitals in higher-education institutions. The mission of ALORTA TRIO is to present the world-quality performances and to edify, engage and encourage their audiences to appreciate and support collaborative music making.

ORDABEK DUISSEN, VIOLIN

Violinist Ordabek Duissen has won several awards at numerous international competitions, including the First Prize in the Franz Schubert Competition in Italy, Second Prize in the International Violin Competition in Astana, Kazakhstan, the Diploma in the Michelangelo Abbado International Competition in Milan, Italy, Grand Prize in the National Competition in Kazakhstan. He has participated in various international music festivals as a soloist, concertmaster and chamber musician at “Music of Laguna” (Italy), “Ost-West Musicfest” ,“Mozarteum”(Austria), Pacific Music Festival (Japan) , AIMS festival in Graz, Austria and others. He also had solo appearances in Lincoln Hall, UNESCO. As a soloist and chamber musician he has toured and performed in many countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Italy, France, Austria, Great Britain, South Korea, Mexico and throughout the United States. Ordabek Duissen is a member of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (violin I section) and the Concertmaster at the Irving Symphony Orchestra. 

ALLAN STEELE, CELLO

Allan Steele was born in Chicago and began studying the cello at the age of four. He studied at the Music Institute of Chicago for four years, and was a long-time member of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. He previously studied with Tanya Carey, Hans Jensen, Susan Moses, and most recently, Ronald Leonard at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where he graduated with a Bachelor's of Music. Steele maintains an active solo career and has soloed with the Chicago Youth Symphony, the Northwest Symphony, the Colburn Conservatory Orchestra and the American Youth Symphony. He is a founding member of the classical music group MC2. Allan Steele is the Principal Cellist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

TANYA KARYAGINA, PIANO

Pianist Tanya Karyagina is praised for her “brilliant fluency, outstanding tone quality” (La Libre Belgique) and “elegant alternation of tragedy and optimism” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). Born in Kazakhstan, American pianist Tanya Karyagina made her concerto début at the age of nine with the Kazakh Chamber Orchestra under Yuri Dorokhovski and has also appeared as a soloist with the Kazakh National Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, TCU Symphony, USC Symphony, North East Symphony, and Nova Amadeus Chamber Orchestra working with such distinguished conductors as Leon Fleisher, Sergiu Comissiona, Nicola Samale, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Jeremy Swerling, German Gutierrez, and Tolepbergen  Abdrashev. As an avid chamber musician and entrepreneur, Tanya Karyagina is the founder and pianist for the ALORTA TRIO, which has been in high demand performing to high critical acclaim around the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and beyond.