Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Patricia Kopatchinskaja was born in Moldova to musician parents and studied composition and violin in Vienna and Bern. In 2000 she won the international Szeryng-Competition in Mexico and in 2002 the prestigious International Credit Suisse Group Young Artist Award. During the 2002/03 season, she represented Austria in the Rising Stars Concert Series with debuts in New York and many European capitals. In 2004 she received the European Broadcasting Union's (EBU) New Talent SPP Award and in 2006 the Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk. In summer 2011 she was awarded the “Golden Bow” by the Musikfestwoche Meiringen in Switzerland in recognition of her significant contribution to string playing.
Chamber music is of immense importance to Patricia Kopatchinskaja's artistic life and her regular chamber partners include Fazil Say, Sol Gabetta, Mihaela Ursuleasa and Polina Leschenko, as well as members of her own family.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja records exclusively for Naïve Classique. Her highly personal reading of Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées won a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2010 and was described by The Strad magazine as the "best authentic version". Her 2008 recital recording with Fazil Say featuring Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata as well as works by Ravel, Bartók and Say was honoured with an ECHO-Klassik award. Her most recent CD - a selection of works entitled "Rapsodia" which explores the roots of George Enescu's music with examples of authentic Moldovan and Romanian folk music - was selected as Editor's Choice by Gramophone magazine in December 2010, highly recommended by The Strad Magazine and was also chosen as an "Outstanding" disc in International Record Review's February 2011 edition. This season sees Patricia record Bartók's second Violin Concerto, Ligeti's Violin Concerto and Peter Eötvös' Seven with the composer conducting in collaboration with hr-Sinfonieorchester and Ensemble Modern.
Future highlights include performances of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra in November 2011 (with the composer conducting), concerts with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and an appearance with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Philharmonie Köln. Patricia will also tour with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and I Solisti del Vento, appear with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Camerata Salzburg, and with the Tonkünstler-Orchester at the Wiener Festwochen.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a goodwill ambassador for the charity Terre des Hommes, through which she supports projects for children in Moldova. In May 2012, with the musicians of Staatskapelle Berlin and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, she will present a programme dedicated to raising both funds and awareness for environmental causes in her country.
