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Vadim Repin's artistry combines fiery passion with impeccable technique, poetry and sensitivity. “Simply the best, the most perfect violinist I have ever heard” exclaimed Yehudi Menuhin. “The greatest living violinist” proclaimed the Berlin Tagesspiegel last year.
Born in Siberia, where he studied with Zakhar Bron, his international career began at seventeen after winning the most prestigious and demanding violin competition in the world, the Reine Elisabeth Concours. Since then he has appeared with the world's greatest orchestras including the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, La Scala Milan, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. He has performed under the baton of leading conductors such as Boulez, Bychkov, Chailly, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Gergiev, Jansons, Krivine, Levine, Luisi, Marriner, Masur, Mehta, Nagano, Rattle, Rostropovich, Rozhdestvensky, Temirkanov and Zinman.
A strong advocate of new music, Vadim Repin has received accolades for his performances of John Adams' Violin Concerto with the Chicago Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony conducted by the composer. He performed Gubaidulina's Offertorium in his Boston Symphony debut, and shortly thereafter with the City of Birmingham Symphony.
Vadim Repin has been a frequent guest at festivals such as the Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Gstaad, Rheingau, Verbier and the BBC Proms. His ‘Carte Blanche' invitation to the Louvre in Paris resulted in a prize-winning live recording of chamber music performed with young colleagues, including the gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos. Chamber music partners have included Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky and Mikhail Pletnev, and the forthcoming season includes major chamber music projects in London, Paris, Brussels, Vienna and Tokyo.
His prize-winning recordings on the Erato/Warner Classics label include
the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 and Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.
2 with Kent Nagano and the Hallé Orchestra; the Tchaikovsky and
Sibelius concerti with the London Symphony Orchestra under Emmanuel Krivine,
and Prokofiev Violin Sonatas 1 & 2 and Five Melodies, with pianist
Boris Berezovsky, with whom he also recorded the Ravel Sonata and Medtner's
Sonata Epica. His Mozart Violin Concerti numbers 2,3 and 5 with the Vienna
Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yehudi Menuhin won him the 1999 Echo Klassik
Instrumentalist of the Year award, and ‘Tutta Bravura', a collection
of virtuoso pieces, and Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, have received international
acclaim. Most recently released are a recording of works by Richard Strauss,
Stravinsky and Bartók with Berezovsky, and on the Philips label,
the violin concerti of Tchaikovsky and Myaskovsky with the Kirov Orchestra
and Valery Gergiev, marking Repin's 17 year long association with the conductor.
Page TwoHighlights of the 2001/2 season included concerts with James Levine
and the Munich Philharmonic, the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera
and Mehta, Mariss Jansons and the Berlin Philharmonic, and a debut in New
Zealand. Appearances in the 2002/3 season include Baltimore Symphony and
Cincinnati Symphony on tour and at Carnegie Hall, the Czech Philharmonic
at Carnegie Hall and recitals in New York, Baltimore, Seattle, Atlanta,
Charlottesville and San Francisco.
Vadim Repin was invited to perform at the eve-of-wedding concert of Crown Prince Willem Alexander of the Netherlands and his bride, the Argentinian Maxima Zorreguieta. The concert, which was a private event for the wedding guests including royalty and heads of state from around the world, took place in Amsterdam's historic Concertgebouw. Vadim Repin played a tango in honour of the bride, written by the composer John Williams.
Repin performs on the magnificent Stradivarius ‘Ruby’ 1708 by kind permission of the Stradivarius Society of Chicago.
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