Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Borggreve in 2012
Background information
Born 1977 (1977) (age 39)
Chișinău, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Genres classical music
Instruments violin
Website patriciakopatchinskaja.com

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (born 1977 in Chișinău, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) is a Moldovan-Austrian violinist.

Kopatchinskaja comes from a family of musicians, where her parents were both musicians with the state folk ensemble of Moldova, with her mother Emilia Kopatchinskaja a violinist and her father Viktor Kopatchinsky a cimbalom player. While her parents were on concert tour through the former Eastern bloc, she grew up with her grandparents.[1][2] She started playing the violin at age 6.[3]

In 1989, the family emigrated to Vienna. Kopatchinskaja entered the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna at age 17,[1] where she studied musical composition and violin. At age 21, she won a scholarship to study in Bern,[1] at the Musikhochschule, where her teachers included Igor Ozim.

Kopatchinskaja has played with almost all important European orchestras including Vienna, Berlin and London Philharmonic. She regularly plays in Japan and Australia and recently also extended her activiy to the United States, South America, Russia and China. In February 2014, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra named Kopatchinskaja one of its new Artistic Partners, effective with the 2014-2015 season.[4] And in 2020 she will serve as artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival in the USA.

Kopatchinskaja, her Swiss neurologist husband,[5][6] and their daughter live in Bern, Switzerland.[3] She plays a violin built by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda (Turin) in 1834.

Historically informed performance

Patricia Kopatchinskaja has collaborated with Il Giardino Armonico, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MusicAeterna Perm, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the direction of Giovanni Antonini, René Jacobs and Philippe Herreweghe.

On 23 April 2016 she performed with Anoushka Shankar at a concert in Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany.

First performances

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

Moreover, Richard Carrick, Violeta Dinescu, Michalis Economou, Heinz Holliger, Ludwig Nussbichler, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Ivan Sokolov, Boris Yoffe have written works for her.

Awards

Discography

released pieces collaborators publisher/Nr. type
1998 ein klang 1996–1998

Johanna Doderer

  • Awakening 2 for three Violins
  • Kinga Voss (Violin)
  • Jacqueline Kopacinski (Violin)
Einklang Records 001/002 Double-CD
2001

An Introduction To Dmitri Smirnov

  • Elegy (in Memory of Edison Denisov) for cello solo
  • String of Destiny (Piano Sonata No.4) for piano
  • "Es ist..." (Violin Sonata No.3)
  • Trio for violin, cello and piano
  • Sonata (for cello and piano)
  • Postlude (in Memory of Alfred Schnittke) for violin solo
  • Alexander Iwashkin (cello)
  • Ivan Sokolov (piano)
Megadisc 7818 CD
2001 Nikolai Korndorf
  • In Honour of Alfred Schnittke (trio for violin, viola and cello)
  • Passacaglia for cello solo
  • Are you ready, Brother? (trio for piano, violin and cello)
  • Daniel Raiskin (viola)
  • Alexander Iwashkin (cello)
  • Ivan Sokolov (piano)
Megadisc 7817 CD
2004 Boris Yoffe, 32 poems from the quartet book
  • Daniel Kobyliansky (violin)
  • Boris Yoffe (viola)
  • Dichtiar Druski (cello)
Antes Edition, Bella Musica 319192 CD
2006 Jubilee-CD Classics (50 years DRS 2)
on CD Nr.10. („Young Talents“) by Kopatchinskaja

George Enescu

  • Third Sonata (Dans le charactère populaire roumain)
    • 1. Moderato malinconico
    • 2. Andante sostenuto e misterioso
    • 3. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso
Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano) Swiss Radio DRS2, CDL1710 10 CDs
2006 Johanna Doderer
  • For violin and orchestra (dedicated to Kopatchinskaja)
  • Bolero for two pianos and orchestra
  • Rondane for orchestra
Edition Zeitton des ORF 2009336 CD
2007 Boris Yoffe, Musical Semantics

Boris Yoffe

  • Seven poems from the quartet book
  • Essay
  • Leicht, aber mit Hingabe
  • Daniel Kobylianski (violin)
  • Jacqueline Kopacinski (violin)
  • Roman Spitzer (viola)
  • Druski Dichtiar (cello)
  • Angela Yoffe (piano)
Megadisc MDC 7798 CD
2008 Fazil Say 1001 Nights in the Harem
by Kopatchinskaja

Fazil Say

  • Violin concrto '1001 nights in the harem'
  • Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
  • John Axelrod (conductor)
Naïve, V 5147 CD
2008 Gerd Kühr
  • Movimenti for violin and orchestra (2006)

Gerald Resch

  • "Schlieren" concerto for Violin and orchestra (2005)

Otto Zykan

  • "Da unten im Tale" concerto for violin and orchestra (2004)
  • Radio-Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO)
  • Stefan Asbury (conductor)
  • Johannes Kalitzke (conductor)
  • Bertrand de Billy (conductor)
col legno, WWE 1CD 20279 CD
2009 Beethoven: Complete works for violin and orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Concerto for violin and orchestra D-Major op. 61
  • Romance for violin and orchestra Nr. 2 F-Major op. 50
  • Romanze for violin and orchestra Nr. 1 G-Major op. 40
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra C-Major WoO 5, fragment of the first movement
Naïve, V 5174 CD
2009 Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Violin sonata Nr. 9 („Kreutzer“)

Maurice Ravel

  • Violin sonata in G-Major

Bela Bartok

  • 6 Roumanian folk dances

Fazil Say

  • Violin sonata op. 7
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
  • Fazil Say (piano)
Naïve, V 5146 CD
2010 Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia – Music from my homeland
  • Works by Enescu, Kurtag, Ligeti, Sanchez-Chiong, Ravel, Modovan Folklore
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
  • Emilia Kopatchinskaja (violin & viola)
  • Viktor Kopatchinsky (cembalo)
  • Martin Gjakonovski (double bass)
  • Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)
Naïve, V 5193 CD
2012 Three Hungarian violin concertos
  • Bartók: Violin concerto Nr. 2
  • Eötvös: Violin concerto Nr. 1 ("Seven")
  • Ligeti: Violin concerto
Naïve, V 5285 Double-CD
2013 Two Russian violin concertos
  • Stravinsky: Concerto in re
  • Prokofjev: Violin concerto Nr. 2
Naïve, V 5352 CD
2014 Quasi Parlando ECM New Series 2323 CD
2014 Galina Ustvolskaya
  • Violin sonata, Duet, Clarinet Trio
ECM New Series 2329 CD
2015 Giya Kancheli
  • Chiaroscuro, Twilight
ECM New Series 2442 CD
2015 TAKE-TWO

Duets from 1000 years of musical history

Works by Gesualdo, De Machaut, Gibbons, Giamberti, Biber, Bach, De Falla, Milhaud, Vivier, Martinu, Cage, Holliger, Sotelo, Dick, Sanchez-Chiong and from Winchester Troper

  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin, baroque violin, voice)
  • Reto Bieri (clarinet, violin, ocarina)
  • Laurence Dreyfus (treble viol)
  • Pablo Marquez (guitar)
  • Anthony Romaniuk (harpsichord, toy piano)
  • Jorge Sanchez-Chiong (turntables and electronics)
  • Matthias Würsch (darbuka)
  • Ernesto Estrella (voice)
Alpha Classics CD
2016 Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski
  • Violin concerto
  • Les Noces
SONY classical CD[13]
2016 Robert Schumann

Complete symphonic works Vol.4

  • Violin concerto
  • Piano concerto
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
  • Denes Varjon (piano)
  • WDR-Symphony-Orchestra, Cologne
  • Heinz Holliger, conductor
Audite CD
2016 Faradj Karaev
  • Violin concerto
  • Vingt ans après "Nostalgie..." (Symphony)
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Violin)
  • Azerbaijan Symphony Orchestra Baku
  • Rauf Abullayev, conductor
Paladino Music CD
2016 (march) Robert Schumann

Complete symphonic works Vol.5

  • Concert pieces for piano and orchestra op. 92 und 134
  • Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra op.131
  • Concert piece for four horns and orchestra op. 86
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Violin)
  • Alexander Lonquich (Piano)
  • WDR-Symphony-Orchestra, Cologne
  • Heinz Holliger, conductor
Audite CD

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ivan Hewett (2014-08-14). "Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Wild child of classical violin". Telegraph. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  2. "Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Ich kenne Dich, ich habe Dich spielen gehört". Documentary film, 2012. (Director: Béla Batthyany)
  3. 1 2 Andrew Clark (2013-09-20). "Interview: violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja". Financial Times. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  4. "Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja appointed artistic partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra". The Strad. 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  5. Christiane Peitz (2009-10-08). "Wir spielen keine Noten". Die Zeit. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  6. Christine Lemke-Matwey (2014-01-02). "Mein rollendes R". Die Zeit. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  7. David Gutman. "DODERER The Piano Trios". gramophone.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  8. "Der Ton, der durch die Musik wandelt". derbund.ch. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  9. "Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja withdraws from concerts due to injury". The Strad. 2015-11-11. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  10. "Kopatchinskaja premières Sotelo". Universal Edition blog. 2016-06-15. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
  11. "パトリシア・コパチンスカヤ:avex-CLASSICS". avex.jp. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  12. Violinistin Kopatchinskaja erhält "Förderpreis" auf radiobremen.de (archived in Internet Archive on 17 May 2010), checked on 19 March 2014
  13. "SONY demo video on youtube".
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