Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (born 1977) is a Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Kopatchinskaja in 2012
Background information
Born1977 (age 42–43)
Chișinău, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
GenresClassical music
InstrumentsViolin
Websitepatriciakopatchinskaja.com

Early life and career

Kopatchinskaja was born in Chișinău, in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Moldova). She comes from a family of musicians. Her parents were both with the state folk ensemble of Moldova: her mother, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, was a violinist, and her father, Viktor Kopatchinsky, was 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 fled to Vienna.[4] Kopatchinskaja entered the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna at age 17,[1] where she studied musical composition and violin. From age 21 to 23 she finished her studies in Bern,[1] at the Musikhochschule, where her teachers included Igor Ozim. Kopatchinskaja, her Swiss neurologist husband,[5][6] and their daughter live in Bern, Switzerland.[3]

Musician

The British Royal Philharmonic Society in 2014 named Kopatchinskaja "instrumentalist of the year" describing her as an “irresistible force of nature: passionate, challenging and totally original in her approach.”

Soloist

Kopatchinskaja has played with most of the important European orchestras including Vienna, Berlin and London Philharmonic. She regularly plays in Japan and Australia and recently also extended her activity to the United States, South America, Russia and China. She has an ongoing collaboration with amongst others the following conductors: Teodor Currentzis, Péter Eötvös, Tito Muñoz, Iván Fischer, Heinz Holliger, Vladimir Jurowski, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle and François-Xavier Roth.

Leading orchestras and festivals

Kopatchinskaja's experience as a leader of ensembles and chamber orchestras includes a tour with Britten Sinfonia, repeated tours with Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra and being an artistic partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra since 2014.[7] Presently she is an artistic partner of the Camerata Bern. She has organised several staged concert productions: "Death and the Maiden" with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, "Bye-Bye Beethoven" with Mahler Chamber Orchestra, "Dies Irae" with Lucerne Festival Alumni, as well as "War and Chips" and "Time and Eternity" with Camerata Bern.

From 2003-2005 Kopatchinskaja organised the Rüttihubeliade festival in the Swiss Alps.

In June 2018, Kopatchinskaja was the music director of the Ojai Music Festival in California.[8]

Chamber music partners

Regular chamber music partners include cellist Sol Gabetta, clarinettist Reto Bieri and the pianists Markus Hinterhäuser, Polina Leschenko and Anthony Romaniuk.

In April 2016, Kopatchinskaja performed with Anoushka Shankar at a concert in Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany. The Raga Piloo was composed, performed and recorded by Ravi Shankar as a duet with Yehudi Menuhin on the album West Meets East, Volume 2 in 1968.

Historically informed performance

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. She also has performed with Sir Roger Norrington and Roy Goodman.

Violins

Kopatchinskaja plays a violin built by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda (Turin) in 1834,[9] according to Dennis Rooney in the British music magazine The STRAD, March 2003 "a very colourful-sounding instrument whose viola-like quality lent her playing exceptional tonal interest". In 2010 for a short time, she played a violin by Guarneri del Gesù „ex-Carrodus“ 1741, on loan from the Austrian National Bank. She had to give it back because of unresolvable problems with Swiss customs authorities. In period instrument environments she uses a violin built by Ferdinando Gagliano (Naples, ca. 1780, mounted with a lowered bridge and gut strings) and appropriate bows.

Voice

Kopatchinskaja uses the voice in several compositions, including John Cage's "Living Room Music", Jorge Sanchez-Chiong's "Crin", Michael Hersch's Duo for violin and cello "Das Rückgrat berstend", Heinz Holliger's "Das kleine Irgendwas", her own cadenza for György Ligeti's violin concerto, and Otto Zykan's "Das mit der Stimme".

In 2017 Kopatchinskaja performed the voice part ("Sprechgesang") in Arnold Schönberg's "Pierrot lunaire" in the USA[10] and in 2018-19 she will give several performances of the same piece in Europe and Canada.

In 2018 Kopatchinskaja videorecorded with some friends the first movement of Kurt Schwitters's Dadaistic nonsense-poem "Ursonate" (1932).[11]

First performances

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

  • 2004/5 seven first performances, among them violin concertos dedicated to her by Johanna Doderer[12] and Otto Zykan
  • 2005/6 first performances of violin concertos dedicated to her by Gerald Resch and Gerd Kühr with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • 2007/8 first performances of violin concertos dedicated to her by Jürg Wyttenbach and the Turkish composer/pianist Fazil Say
  • 2009 first performance of the violin concerto dedicated to her by Faradj Karajew
  • 2011 first performance of violin concertos dedicated to her by Maurizio Sotelo and Helmut Oehring ("Four seasons") as well as the work "Oh whispering suns" for double choir, solo violin and cymbal by Vanessa Lann
  • 2012 first performance of the Romance for violin and strings dedicated to her by Tigran Mansurian with Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
  • 2014 first performance of her own violin concerto "Hortus animae" with Camerata Bern.[13]
  • 2015 (August) first performance of «Dialogue», concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra by Mark-Anthony Turnage (with Sol Gabetta and Gstaad Festival Orchestra).
  • 2015 (November) first performance of the violin concerto written for her by the American composer Michael Hersch with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.[14]
  • 2016 first performance of Mauricio Sotelo's "Red Inner Light Sculpture" for Solo Violin, Strings, percussion and Flamenco Dancer (commissioned by P.K.)[15]
  • 2017 first performance of Michael Hersch's duet for violin and cello "Das Rückgrat berstend", with Jay Campbell.
  • 2019 first performance of Michel van der Aa's Double concerto for violin and violoncello with Sol Gabetta, Concertgebouw Orchestra and Peter Eötvös.
  • 2019 first performance of Francisco Coll's double concerto für violin and violoncello with Sol Gabetta und Camerata Bern, composer directing.
  • 2019 first performance of the duo for violin and cello by Marton Illes with Jay Campbell in Santa Barbara, California.
  • 2020 first performance of the violin concerto by Marton Illes with WDR-Orchestra Cologne, directed by Michael Wendeberg
  • 2020 first performance of the violin concerto by Francisco Coll with Luxembourg Philharmonic directed by Gustavo Gimeno.

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

Awards
  • 2000: 1st prize in the International Henryk Szeryng Competition in Mexico
  • 2002: Credit Suisse Young Artist Award
  • 2004: New Talent – SPP Award of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)[16]
  • 2006: Deutschlandfunk-award of the Bremer Musikfest[17]
  • 2008: Award of the music commission Kanton Bern, Switzerland
  • 2009: ECHO in the category chamber music for the CD recorded with Fazil Say (works by Beethoven, Ravel, Bártok & Say)
  • 2010: BBC-Music-Magazine award (orchestral category) for the CD recorded with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs Elysees: Collected works for violin and orchestra by Beethoven
  • 2011: "Golden Bow"-award of the Meiringen music festival, Switzerland
  • 2012: Praetorius music award of the county Niedersachsen, Germany in the category "musical innovation"
  • 2013: ECHO in the category concert recording of the year (20th/21st century/violin) for the double-CD with violin concertos by Bartók, Ligeti and Eötvös, recorded with the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt respectively Ensemble Modern under Peter Eötvös (Naive)
  • 2013: Gramophone Award "Recording of the year" and Grammy-nomination, both for the double-CD with violin concertos by Bartók, Ligeti and Eötvös, recorded with the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt respectively Ensemble Modern under Peter Eötvös (Naive)
  • 2014: International Classical Music Awards (Category Concerto) for the double CD with violin concertos by Bartók, Ligeti and Eötvös
  • 2014: Prix Caecilia (Belgium) for the CD with violin concertos by Stravinsky and Prokofjev recorded with London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski (Naive)
  • 2014: Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2013 (Category instrumentalist)
  • 2016: Music Award of the Canton of Bern, Switzerland for "remarkable musical achievements"
  • 2017: Grand Prix of the Swiss Music Awards 2017 [18]
  • 2018: Grammy in the ‘Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance’ category for her Death & The Maiden album with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra on Alpha Classics [19]
  • 2019: 29. Würth-Prize of the Jeunesses Musicales Germany[20]
  • 2020: Honorary Membership Konzerthausgesellschaft Vienna [21]

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

Fazil Say

  • Violin concerto '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, dedicated to P.K.)
  • 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

Béla Bartók

  • 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, Sánchez-Chiong, Ravel, Moldovan Folklore
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
  • Emilia Kopatchinskaja (violin & viola)
  • Viktor Kopatchinsky (cymbalom)
  • 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
  • Symphonieorchester des Hessischen Rundfunks, Frankfurt (Bartók, Eötvös)
  • Ensemble Modern Frankfurt (Ligeti)
  • Peter Eötvös (conductor)
 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[22]
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
2016 (October) Franz Schubert

Death and the Maiden and also other works by Gesualdo, Dowland, Nörmiger, Kurtag etc.
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin, direction)
  • Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul, Minnesota
 Alpha classics CD
2018 (February)

Francis Poulenc

  • Violin sonata

Leo Delibes

  • Waltz from Coppélia for piano solo

Béla Bartók

  • Violin sonata Nr.2

Maurice Ravel

  • Tzigane
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Violin)
  • Polina Leschenko (Piano)
 Alpha Classics CD
2018 (July)

Michael Hersch - End Stages, Violin Concerto

  • Violin Concerto (2015)
  • End Stages for Orchestra
  • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (End Stages)
  • ICE - International contemporary Ensemble, New York (violin concerto)
  • Tito Munoz, Dirigent (violin concerto)
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
 New Focus Recordings

fcr 208

 CD
2019 (September)

"TIME AND ETERNITY" -

  • John Zorn: Kol Nidre
  • Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Concerto funebre
  • Frank Martin: Polyptyque
  • Lubos Fiser: Crux
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Choral transcriptions for strings
  • Camerata Bern
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (concept, direction. solo violin)
 Alpha Classics

alpha545

 CD

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