ヴァイオリニスト: パトリシア・コパチンスカヤ

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (born 1977 in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, former Soviet Union) is a Moldovan-Austrian violinist.

Life

Kopatchinskaja comes from a family of musicians, her mother Emilia is also a violinist, her father Viktor plays the cimbalom. While her parents were on concert tour through the former Eastern Block, Patricia grew up with her grandparents in a Moldovan village. She started playing the violin at six years old.

In 1989 the family emigrated to Vienna. Kopatchinskaja studied musical composition and violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. At the age of 21 she changed to Igor Ozim at the Musikhochschule in Berne, Switzerland. In 2000 she got her diploma with highest marks.
Kopatchinskaja lives in Bern, Switzerland, where she is married and has a daughter.

Violinist

In the view of the Jury of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award "Patricia Kopatchinskaja is not only one of the most imaginative violinists around today, she is also a musician capable of galvanising colleagues and mesmerising audiences. Whether she is digging into the dark emotions of 20th-century masterpieces or championing new works she is as irresistible as a force of nature: passionate, challenging and totally original in her approach."

As soloist she appeared with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Musica Aeterna Perm, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokio, Orchestre National de France, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Staatskapelle Berlin, SWR-Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovski Symphony Orchestra Moscow, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony.

Kopatchinskaja worked with the conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Teodor Currentzis, Peter Eotvos, Philippe Herreweghe, Heinz Holliger, Rene Jacobs, Mariss Jansons, Neeme Jarvi, Paavo Jarvi, Philippe Jordan, Vladimir Jurowski, Andris Nelsons, Sir Roger Norrington, Jonathan Nott, Sakari Oramo, Krzysztof Penderecki and Francois-Xavier Roth.

Festivals

She participated in many festivals, e.g. the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, the Lucerne Festival, Lockenhaus-Festival, Menuhin-Festival Gstaad, Mostly Mozart Festival, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, Rheingau Musik Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, The Rest is Noise-Festival, London and Wiener Festwochen.

Directing

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, besides playing solo, also directs chamber orchestras, e.g. the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Camerata Bern, Britten Sinfonia, Staatskapelle Berlin, and in the United States, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Chamber Music

Chamber music partners were the pianists Fazil Say, Markus Hinterhauser, Polina Leschenko, Olli Mustonen, the cellists Sol Gabetta and Pieter Wispelwey, the singer Anu Komsi and the clarinetist Reto Bieri. With Pekka Kuusisto, Lilli Maijala und Pieter Wispelwey she has formed a string quartet "quartet-lab" since 2012.

Repertoire

Kopatchinskaja's repertoire ranges from baroque and classical (sometimes played on historical instruments) to a number of new commissions or re-interpretations of modern masterworks. During her compository studies in Vienna she was especially interested in the Second Viennese School: Arnold Schonberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg. Among her preferred composers are Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Ligeti, Tigran Mansurian and Galina Ustwolskaja. Occasionally she composes herself.

First performances

Patricia Kopatchinskaja gave first performances of numerous works, e.g.:

Violin

Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays a violin built by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda (Turin) in 1834. According to the British music magazine The Strad this is "a colourful sounding instrument whose viola-like quality gives her play an exceptional tonal interest". For period instrument ensembles she uses a violin built by Ferdinando Gagliano (Naples) about 1780.

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