"As an interpreter I am most interested in communicating the meaning and inner workings of the music I play. Curiosity drives me to explore many different musical frontiers and I'm ready to take the risks that this process entails."

- Patricia Kopatchinskaja                           

Patricia Kopatchinskaja's performances during 2010/11 and 2011/12 range through the length and breadth of the violin repertoire, from baroque and classical (often played on gut strings) to a number of new commissions or re-interpretations of modern masterworks such as Peter Eötvös' Seven, Ligeti's Violin Concerto and works by Tigran Mansurian, Mauricio Sotelo, Vanessa Lann and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Patricia also regularly performs concertos by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Berg among many others.

Highlights of last season included a performance with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Sir Roger Norrington at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées and European tours with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and Andrey Boreyko, as well as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo to Helsinki, Frankfurt, Dortmund and Zürich. Last season also saw Patricia perform Peter Eötvös' Seven with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with the composer conducting. Patricia also journeyed to major festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau and Carinthischer Sommer festivals, with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, and the Salzburger Festspiele with Radio Symphonieorchester Wien performing Berg's Violin Concerto.

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.

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 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 2002/3 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. 2012 she receives the Pretorius Award of the Land Niedersachsen, Germany in the category "musical innovation".

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.

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. 

Further information on the website: www.patriciakopatchinskaja.com.

Updated november 2011, please do not use outdated versions.

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