Viktoria Mullova

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Viktoria Yurievna Mullova (English transcription ; Russian Виктория Юрьевна Муллова , German transcription Wiktorija Jurjewna Mullova ; born November 27, 1959 in Zhukovsky , Moscow Oblast ) is one of the most important contemporary violinists .

Life

Viktoria Mullova studied violin as the main instrument at the Moscow Central School of Music and continued her training with Leonid Kogan at the Moscow Conservatory . She gained international attention when she won the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki in 1980 . At the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982 she received the gold medal. Viktoria Mullova fled the Soviet Union in 1983 by on tour in Finland with the help of the Finnish journalist Jyrki Koulumies in a car to Sweden, where she sought political asylum. Just four days later she was in the USA on a visa. Nevertheless, she first moved to Canada and only later to the USA, where she began her international career. In 1994 she founded her own Mullova Ensemble .

Mullova appeared as a soloist with almost all major orchestras . She plays the "Jules Falk" - Stradivarius (1723); For the baroque, classical and early romantic repertoire she plays a Guadagnini covered with gut strings .

family

Mullova lives in London and is married to avant-garde cellist Matthew Barley , with whom she has a daughter (Nadia). Two other children come from other relationships: a daughter (Katia) of the violinist Alan Brind and the double bass player Misha Mullov-Abbado of the conductor Claudio Abbado .

Awards

Discography

Filmography

  • Between perfection and freedom. The violinist Viktoria Mullova. Documentary, Germany, 2004, 52 min., Director: Claudia Willke, production: RBB , SWR , first broadcast: June 18, 2005 on arte , synopsis by arte, film data .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. History of Escape ( Memento of February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Helsingin Sanomat, September 14, 2008 (English)
  2. http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-1288336055304.html
  3. ^ Ian Phillips: Reflections to Mullova. In: Evening Standard . July 7, 2000; Archived from the original on June 5, 2011 ; accessed on February 1, 2014 .
  4. There is no magic here. Beethoven with Alina Ibragimova and Viktoria Mullova. In: FAZ. July 17, 2010, p. 37 , accessed February 1, 2014 .