Patricia Kopatchinskaja
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| Cyrillic ( Russian ) | |
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| Патриция Копачинская | |
| Transl. : | Patricija Kopačinskaja |
| Transcr. : | Patrizija Kopachinskaya |
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (* 1977 in Chișinău , Moldavian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Moldovan- Austrian- Swiss violinist .
Life
Patricia Kopatchinskaja comes from a Moldovan family of musicians, her mother Emilia is also a violinist, her father Viktor plays the cymbal . Because her parents went on extensive concert tours through the Soviet Union, Patricia grew up mostly with her grandparents in the country. From the age of six she took violin lessons from a student of David Oistrach .
In 1989 the family emigrated to Vienna and took on Austrian citizenship. Patricia Kopatchinskaja studied composition and violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . At the age of 21, she switched to what was then the University of Music and Theater in Bern as a scholarship holder . There she graduated with distinction in 2000.
Numerous composers have dedicated works to her. Occasionally she composes herself.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja lives in Bern, she is married and has a daughter.
musician
According to the jury of the music prizes of the Royal Philharmonic Society, Patricia Kopatchinskaja is not only one of the most imaginative violinists there is today, but she is also capable of electrifying colleagues and hypnotizing the audience. If she deals with the dark emotions of the masterpieces of the 20th century or if she represents new works, then she is as irresistible as a force of nature: passionate, challenging and completely independent in her point of view. She usually appears barefoot in order to have “direct contact with the earth”.
Soloist
Patricia Kopatchinskaja has performed with most of the leading symphony orchestras in Europe, Japan and Russia, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic . Recently she has also expanded her concert activities to North and South America and China. She has repeatedly collaborated with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (Minnesota, USA) and with the following conductors: Teodor Currentzis , Péter Eötvös , Iván Fischer , Gustavo Gimeno , Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla , Heinz Holliger , Wladimir Jurowski , Andrés Orozco-Estrada , Kirill Petrenko , Sir Simon Rattle and François-Xavier Roth .
Regular chamber music partners are the pianists Joonas Ahonen , Markus Hinterhäuser , Polina Leschenko and Anthony Romaniuk , the cellist Sol Gabetta and the clarinetist Reto Bieri .
The repertoire of Kopatchinskaja ranges from the Renaissance through the classical to contemporary music . During her composition studies in Vienna, she dealt intensively with the Second Vienna School : Arnold Schönberg , Anton Webern and Alban Berg . Her favorite composers also include György Kurtág , György Ligeti , the Shostakovich student Galina Ustwolskaja and Michael Hersch .
Historical performance practice
Patricia Kopatchinskaja works with original sound ensembles, e.g. B. with Il Giardino Armonico , Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , Orchester des Champs-Elysées and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin as well as the conductors Giovanni Antonini , Philippe Herreweghe and René Jacobs .
Direction of orchestras
Patricia Kopatchinskaja often leads the orchestra in her solo appearances. B. the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Camerata Bern, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (USA), the Britten Sinfonia or the Staatskapelle Berlin . She is currently the "artistic partner" of the Camerata Bern .
She has conceived and directed several multimedia concert productions: "Death and the Maiden" with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, "Bye-Bye Beethoven" with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra , "Dies Irae" with the Lucerne Festival Alumni and "War and Chips" as well as “Time and Eternity” with the Camerata Bern . In summer 2018 she was the music director of the Ojai Music Festival in California.
violin
Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays a violin made by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda (Turin) in 1834, according to the English music magazine The STRAD "a colorful sounding instrument whose viola-like quality gives her playing an extraordinary tonal interest". In ensembles with historical instruments she uses a violin made by Ferdinando Gagliano (Naples) around 1780. In 2010 she played for a short time the violin "ex-Carrodus" made by Guarneri del Gesù in 1741 , on loan from the Austrian National Bank . She had to forego their further use due to unsolvable problems with customs clearance in Switzerland.
voice
Patricia Kopatchinskaja uses her voice in various compositions: In John Cage's “Living Room Music”, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong's “Crin”, Michael Hersch's duo for violin and cello “Das Rückberstend”, Heinz Holliger's “Das kleine Irgendwas”, in hers Cadenza to György Ligeti's violin concerto, in Kurt Schwitters ' “ Ursonate ”, in Ligeti 's “Mysteries of the Macabre” or in Schönberg's “Pierrot lunaire”.
World premieres
Patricia Kopatchinskaja brought u. a. the following works for the premiere:
- 2004/5 Seven world premieres, including newly written violin concertos by Johanna Doderer and Otto Matthäus Zykan
- 2005/6 world premiere of violin concertos written for them by Gerald Resch and Gerd Kühr with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
- 2007/8 world premiere of violin concertos written for her by Jürg Wyttenbach and Fazıl Say
- 2009 World premiere of Faradj Karajew's violin concerto, which was written for her
- 2011 world premiere of the violin concertos written for her by Maurizio Sotelo and Helmut Oehring (“Four Seasons”) and of “Oh whispering suns” for double choir, solo violin and cymbal by Vanessa Lann
- 2012 premiere of Romance for violin and string orchestra written for her by Tigran Mansurian with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
- 2014 premiere of her own violin concerto "Hortus animae" with Camerata Bern. [8]
- 2015 World premiere of “Dialogue”, concert for violin, violoncello and orchestra by Mark-Anthony Turnage with Sol Gabetta and the Gstaad Festival Orchestra.
- 2015 premiere of the violin concerto written for her by Michael Hersch with the St-Paul Chamber Orchestra (USA).
- 2016 World premiere of Mauricio Sotelo's “Red Inner Light Sculpture” for solo violin, strings, percussion and flamenco dancer (commissioned PK) [9]
- 2017 world premiere of Michael Hersch's duo for violin and cello "Das Rückgrat berstend" with Jay Campbell.
- 2019 world premiere of Michel van der Aa's double concerto for violin and violoncello with Sol Gabetta, Concertgebouw Orchestra and Peter Eötvös.
- 2019 world premiere under the direction of the composer of Francisco Coll's Double Concerto for Violin and Violoncello with Sol Gabetta and Camerata Bern.
- 2019 world premiere of the duo for violin and cello by Marton Illes with Jay Campbell in Santa Barbara, California.
- 2020 World premiere of Marton Illes' Violin Concerto with the WDR Orchestra Cologne under Michael Wendeberg
- 2020 World premiere of Francisco Coll's Violin Concerto with the Philharmonie de Luxembourg under Gustavo Gimeno.
Awards
- 1997: 2nd prize in the age group from 18 to 23 years in the "Strings" category at the " Classica Nova " international competition In Memoriam Dmitri Schostakowitsch ( Hanover )
- 2000: Tschumi Prize of the Bern Conservatory for the best end of the year (concert diploma).
- 2000: 1st prize at the International Henryk Szeryng Competition in Mexico
- 2002: Credit Suisse Young Artist Award
- 2004: New Talent - SPP Award of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
- 2006: Deutschlandfunk sponsorship award for the Bremen Music Festival Prize
- 2008: Recognition award from the Music Commission of the Canton of Bern, Switzerland
- 2009: ECHO Klassik in the field of chamber music for CD recording with Fazıl Say: Works for violin and piano by Beethoven, Ravel, Bartók & Say
- 2010: BBC Music Magazine award (orchestral category) for CD recording with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchester des Champs Elysees: Beethoven's complete works for violin and orchestra
- 2011: "Golden Arch" of the Meiringen Music Festival, Switzerland
- 2012: Praetorius Music Prize of the State of Lower Saxony in the category "Musical Innovation"
- 2013: ECHO Klassik in the field of concert recording of the year (20th / 21st century) / violin, Gramophone Award "Recording of the year" and Grammy nomination, each for the double CD with violin concertos by Bartók, Ligeti and Eötvös with HR Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Modern under Peter Eötvös (Naive)
- 2013: Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award 2013 (Category instrumentalist)
- 2014: International Classical Music Award (Category Concerto) for the double CD with violin concertos by Bartók, Ligeti and Eötvös with HR Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt and Ensemble Modern under Peter Eötvös (Naive)
- 2014: Prix Caecilia (Belgium) for the CD with violin concertos by Stravinsky and Prokofjev with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Wladimir Jurowski (Naive)
- 2016: Music Prize of the Canton of Bern (Switzerland)
- 2017: Grand Prix of the Swiss Music Prize 2017
- 2018: Grammy Category Chamber Music / Small Ensemble for CD “Schubert: Death and the Maiden” with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Alpha Classics.
- 2019: 29th Würth Prize from Jeunesses Musicales Germany
- 2020: Honorary membership of the Konzerthausgesellschaft Vienna
Discography
| released | Pieces | Contributors | Publisher / No. | Type |
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| 1998 | a sound from 1996–1998
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Line records 001/002 | Double CD |
| 2001 |
An Introduction To Dmitri Smirnov
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Megadisc 7818 | CD |
| 2001 |
Nikolai Korndorf
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Megadisc 7817 | CD |
| 2004 | Boris Yoffe, 32 poems from the quartet book |
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Antes Edition, Bella Musica 319192 | CD |
| 2006 | Anniversary CD Classic (50 years DRS 2)
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Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano) | Swiss Radio DRS2, CDL1710 | 10 CDs |
| 2006 |
Johanna Doderer
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Edition Zeitton of ORF 2009336 | CD |
| 2007 | Boris Yoffe, Musical Semantics
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Megadisc MDC 7798 | CD |
| 2008 |
Fazıl Say 1001 Nights in the Harem
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Naïve, V 5147 | CD |
| 2008 |
Gerd Kühr
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col legno, WWE 1CD 20279 | CD |
| 2009 | Beethoven: Complete works for violin and orchestra
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Naïve, V 5174 | CD |
| 2009 |
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Naïve, V 5146 | CD |
| 2010 | Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia - Music from my homeland
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Naïve, V 5193 | CD |
| 2012 | Three Hungarian violin concertos
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Naïve, V 5285 | Double CD |
| 2013 | Two Russian violin concertos
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Naïve, V 5352 | CD |
| 2014 | Quasi parlando
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ECM New Series 2323 | CD |
| 2014 |
Galina Ustvolskaya
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ECM New Series 2329 | CD |
| 2015 (October) |
Giya Kancheli
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ECM New Series 2442 | CD |
| 2015 (October) | TAKE-TWO: Duets from 1000 years of music history
Works by Gesualdo, De Machaut, Gibbons, Giamberti, Biber, Bach, De Falla, Milhaud, Vivier, Martinů, Cage, Holliger, Sotelo, Dick, Sanchez-Chiong and from the Winchester Troper |
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Alpha Classics | CD |
| 2016 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin concerto Les Noces |
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SONY classical | CD |
| 2016 |
Robert Schumann
Complete symphonic works Vol.4
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Audits | CD |
| 2016 | Faradj Karaev
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Paladino Music | CD |
| 2016 (March) |
Robert Schumann
Complete symphonic works Vol.5
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Audits | CD |
| 2016 (October) |
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Alpha Classics | CD |
| 2018 (February) |
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Alpha Classics | CD |
| 2018 (July) |
Michael Hersch - End Stages, Violin Concerto
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New Focus Recordings
fcr 208 |
CD |
| 2019 (September) |
"TIME AND ETERNITY" -
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Alpha Classics
alpha545 |
CD |
Web links
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the artist
- Official Facebook page of the artist
- Documentation about Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- Interview on the Swiss classic portal Classicpoint.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Top violinist becomes director of Camerata Bern. In: The Bund . May 5, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Detailed biography of the parents ( memento from May 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Patricia Kopatchinskaja's old homepage www.patkop.ch, accessed on March 19, 2014.
- ↑ "Patricia Kopatchinskaja: I know you, I heard you play". Documentary, 2012 (Director: Béla Batthyany)
- ↑ Michaela Schlögl: Music, risky like life. Patricia Kopatchinskaja. (No longer available online.) In: Magazine of the Society of Music Friends in Vienna. Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna , March 2003, archived from the original on May 22, 2015 ; Retrieved March 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b 2013: Instrumentalist. In: Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. Retrieved March 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture on the award of the Praetorius Music Prize 2012 with the jury's reasons ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ For background information on her repertoire, see Internet source: http://www.patriciakopatchinskaja.com/texts-patkop.html
- ^ Marianne Mühlemann: The mysticism of an embrace. In: Der BUND, Bern. September 10, 2018, accessed September 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Patricia Kopatchinskaja's Pressenda 1834. In: Jason Price, Tarisio. February 16, 2018, accessed February 22, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/patriciakopatchinskaja/videos/vl.952252441554121/10156813640959672/?type=1
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlj6bkA1t0M
- ^ Ron Hubbard: Kopatchinskaja makes Schoenberg fun. In: Twin Cities. Pioneer Press, October 27, 2017, accessed February 22, 2018 .
- ^ Classica Nova, Prize winners (strings)
- ↑ Credit Suisse Young Artist Award - factsheet. (pdf) Previous winners. (No longer available online.) In: https://www.credit-suisse.com/ . Credit Suisse Foundation, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; Retrieved March 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Violinist Kopatchinskaja receives "Förderpreis" ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on radiobremen.de , accessed on March 19, 2014.
- ^ Canton of Bern awards four music prizes. In: bernerzeitung.ch. Retrieved October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.srf.ch/kultur/musik/schweizer-musikpreis-2017-patricia-kopatchinskaja-gewinnt-den-grand-prix-musik
- ↑ https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/patricia-kopatchinskaja
- ↑ https://www.nmz.de/artikel/ins-innere-der-musik
- ↑ https://magazin.klassik.com/news/teaser.cfm?ID=15660
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kopatchinskaja, Patricia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moldovan-Austrian violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chișinău , Moldovan SSR , Soviet Union |