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Patricia Kopatchinskaja was born in Moldova, the wine-growing country between
Roumania and the Ukraine. Both parents are musicians. She studied composition
and violin in Vienna and Bern. 2000 she won the international Szeryng-Competition
in Mexico and in 2002 the prestigious "International Credit Suisse
Group Young Artist Award". During the Season 2002/3 she represented
Austria in the concert series "Rising Stars" with debuts in New
York and many European capitals. 2004 she received the "New Talent
- SPP Award" of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and 2006 the
"Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk".
Patricia Kopatchinskaja was soloist e.g. with Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, RSO-Rundfunksymphonieorchester
Vienna, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin,
SWR-Radiosymphonieorchester Stuttgart, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Orchestre
des Champs-Elysées, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic,
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic, NHK
Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, American Symphony Orchestra New York. Conductors
included Andrey Boreyko, Peter Eötvös, Olari Elts, Vladimir Fedoseyev,
Roy Goodman, H.K.Gruber, Jürg Henneberger, Philippe Herreweghe, Mariss
Jansons, Paavo Järvi, Seikyo Kim, Alexander Liebreich, Andrew Litton,
Andris Nelsons, Sir Roger Norrington, Sakari Oramo, Krysztof Penderecki,
Kirill Petrenko, Josep Pons, Christoph Poppen, Heinrich Schiff, Stanislaw
Skrowaczewski.
In the near future she will debut with the Munich Chamber Orchestra (Alexander
Liebreich), Tschaikowsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow (Fedoseyev), the Mahler
chamber orchestra (Herreweghe), the Camerata Salzburg, the Württemberg
chamber orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
She has appeared in important concert halls, e.g.: Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center New York, Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall London, Berliner Philharmonie, Musikverein Wien, Mozarteum Salzburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Suntory Hall Tokyo.
Invitations to festivals are numerous, to mention but a few: Lucerne Festival,
Menuhin-Festival Gstaad, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Salzburger Festspiele,
Wiener Festwochen, Wien Modern, Lockenhaus Festival, Styriarte, Klangspuren
Schwaz, Bregenzer Festspiele, Heidelberger Frühling, Festival de Radio
France et Montpellier, and the chamber music festivals of Delft, Kuhmo,
Oxford, West Cork and Antalya.
Prominent chamber music partners include the pianists Polina Leschenko, Konstantin Lifschitz, Fazil Say, Henri Sigfridsson, Mihaela Ursuleasa, the violinists Priya Mitchell and Hansheinz Schneeberger, the viola players Vladimir Mendelssohn and Maxim Rysanov, the cellists Thomas Demenga, Sol Gabetta, Heinrich Schiff, Quirine Viersen, Pieter Wispelwey, the singers Angela Gheorghiu und Anna Maria Pammer. The trio Sigfridsson-Kopatchinskaja-Gabetta appears regularly.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja composes occasionally herself and she is not afraid
of contemporary music. During the year 2004 she gave seven first performances,
e.g. new violin concertos written for her by Johanna Doderer and the Viennese
avantgardist Otto Zykan and in 2005/6 followed the new violin concertos
of Gerald Resch and Gerd Kühr with the RSO Radiosymphonieorchester
Vienna. In 2007/8 she will premiere the new violin concertos of Jürg
Wyttenbach and of Fazil Say. Pieces were dedicated to her by Richard Carrick,
Violeta Dinescu, Michalis Economou, Ludwig Nussbichler, Ivan Sokolov, Boris
Yoffe and many others. She also likes to improvise solo or with others
(e.g. Barry Guy, Charlotte Hug or Mahmoud Turkmani). Several CDs document
contemporary works by Johanna Doderer, Nikolai Korndorf, Dmitri Smirnov
and Boris Yoffe.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays a violin by Pressenda from 1834, according to the The STRAD magazine "a colourful-sounding instrument, whose viola-like quality lends her playing exceptional tonal interest".
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