Vadim Repin

Vadim Repin (March 2008)

Vadim Repin (Wadim Wiktorowitsch Repin, [ˈvɐ'dim 'viktɐrvitʃ' repin] , Вадим Викторович Репин; born August 31, 1971 in Novosibirsk ) is a Russian violinist and lives in Vienna. Yehudi Menuhin said of Vadim Repin: "He is simply the best and most perfect violinist I have ever heard."

Career

At the age of five he began to play the violin with Dmitri Waks, on whose initiative he studied with Zakhar Bron , the famous violin teacher, two years later .

He attracted international attention when in 1989 he was the youngest ever to win the Reine Elisabeth Concours .

As a soloist he gave concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic , the Vienna Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and played with Simon Rattle , Valeri Gergijew and Mariss Jansons .

Repin has made frequent appearances at Carnegie Hall and the London Proms . In May 2010 he gave the world premiere of James MacMillan's Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Gergiev .

Vadim Repin has been Artistic Director of the Trans-Siberian-Art Festival since 2014.

Vadim Repin married Caroline Diemunsch in 2001. In 2006 their son Leonardo was born. He has meanwhile married Svetlana Sakharova , the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet , with whom he has had a daughter since February 2011.

Instruments

1984–1989 Stradivari 1720 ex-Wieniawski-Wieniawski , on loan from the USSR State Collection
In 1996 he briefly played the Guarneri del Gesù 1737 Isaac Stern ex-Panette-Panette , on loan from David Fulton
1996–2005 Stradivari Rubin (1708), on loan from the Stradivari Society in Chicago
2005 Guarneri del Gesù (1742) Il Cannone ex Paganini on loan from the Genoa local authority for a concert there
2002–2009 Guarneri del Gesù by Szerdahely from 1736
2010–2012 Guarneri del Gesù 1743 Bonjour
Vadim Repin has been playing a Guarneri del Gesù 1736 Lafont since 2013

Prizes and awards

1982: First prizes at the Wieniawski Youth Competition in Lublin
1988: Tibor Varga competition in Sion
1989: First prize at the Reine Elisabeth Concours in Brussels
2010 Prize Victoire d'honneur de l'association "Les Victoires de la Musique"
2010 Appointment as Chevalier dans l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Web links

Sound carrier by Vadim Repin in the catalog of the German National Library
Homepage of Vadim Repin (English)
Vadim Repin Unofficial Fan Website

Interviews

Interview with Vadim Repin with the Swiss classic portal Classicpoint.ch
"Itinéraire d'un enfant doué" Interview de Vadim Repin with Sophie Lespiaux in November 2008
"Music is for me a love story - tender, unspoiled, and profoundly emotional" Repin in an interview with Axel Brüggemann on YouTube, February 9, 2008
"We have a joke. It says: You either start your life in Siberia or end your life in Siberia." Vadim Repin talks to Christian Weidmann in Vienna, video on YouTube, published on October 23, 2013, accessed on February 1, 2014.

Individual evidence

↑ Vadim Repin pronounced by a Russian woman

^ Short portrait of Vadim Repin at the Moscow State Philharmonic Society

↑ ^a ^b Article by Susanna Dal Monte on www.oe1.orf.at from June 21, 2012

↑ "To be taught by the phenomenal Zakhar Bron is like winning the lottery", quoted from: Daniel Hope : When may I clap , 2009, p. 148

↑ Zakhar Bron also taught Maxim Vengerov and Daniel Hope. The latter writes that he therefore regularly flew from London to Lübeck every two weeks, which was only possible through a scholarship.

↑ List of world's best orchestras - Survey of the British magazine Gramophone - "The world's unrivaled authority on classical music since 1923." (self-promotion of Gramophone)

↑ Vadim Repin - Biography ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2
↑ James MacMillan: Violin Concerto premiere with Vadim Repin on Boosey & Hawkes
^ "Itinéraire d'un enfant doué" Interview de Vadim Repin with Sophie Lespiaux in November 2008
↑ "Jamais je ne trahirai la musique pour des raisons financières" ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Une interview de Rémy Franck (Pizzicato 12/09) @1@ 2

↑ Victoires de la musique classique ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , www.ambafrance-cy.org, April 27, 2010 @1@ 2

↑ Sur l'Association "Les Victoires de la Musique"

↑ Vadim Repin appointed Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres Klassik.com, December 8, 2010

personal data
SURNAME	Repin, Vadim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Repin, Wadim Viktorovich; Репин, Вадим Викторович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Novosibirsk

[1] Vadim Repin pronounced by a Russian woman

[Kurzportrait-2] Short portrait of Vadim Repin at the Moscow State Philharmonic Society

[Artikel_von_Susanna_Dal_Monte-3] Article by Susanna Dal Monte on www.oe1.orf.at from June 21, 2012

[4] "To be taught by the phenomenal Zakhar Bron is like winning the lottery", quoted from: Daniel Hope : When may I clap , 2009, p. 148

[5] Zakhar Bron also taught Maxim Vengerov and Daniel Hope. The latter writes that he therefore regularly flew from London to Lübeck every two weeks, which was only possible through a scholarship.

[6] List of world's best orchestras - Survey of the British magazine Gramophone - "The world's unrivaled authority on classical music since 1923." (self-promotion of Gramophone)