Patricia Kopatchinskaja was born in Moldova, the wine-growing country between Roumania and the Ukraine. Both parents are musicians. She studied composition and violin in Vienna and Bern (e.g. with E.Tschugaeva and Igor Ozim). 2000 she won the international Szeryng-Competition in Mexico and in 2002 the prestigious "International Credit Suisse Group Young Artist Award". During the Season 2002/3 she represented Austria in the concert series "Rising Stars" with debuts in New York and many European capitals. 2004 she received the "New Talent - SPP Award" of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and 2006 the "Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk". Her recital-CD with Fazil Say (Naive) won the ECHO-Klassik award 2009. The new CD with the complete works of Beethoven for violin and orchestra won the BBC Music Magazine award 2010 (orchestral category) and according to The STRAD this is "the best authentic version" of Beethovens violin concerto.
Patricia
Kopatchinskaja has worked with leading
orchestras (e.g. Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg,
Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Staatsphilharmonie Berlin, SWR-Radiosymphonieorchester
Stuttgart, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées,
Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milano, Finnish Radio Symphonic Orchestra,
Bergen Philharmonic, Tschaikowsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow, Russian
State Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and Tokyo
Philharmonic) and conductors (e.g. Andreescu, Arming, Ashkenazy,
Boreyko, de Billy, Casadesus, Eötvös, Fedoseyev, Goodman,
Griffiths, Herreweghe, Jansons, Neeme and Paavo Järvi, Phlippe
Jordan, Kim, Langrée, Liebreich, Litton, Manacorda,
Marin, Nelsons, Norrington, Oramo, Penderecki, Petrenko,
Russell Davies, Schiff, Skrowaczewski, Volkov). She has appeared in
important concert halls, e.g. Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center New
York, Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall London, Sidney Opera
House, Berliner Philharmonie, Musikverein Wien, Mozarteum Salzburg,
Tonhalle Zürich, KKL Lucerne, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Great
Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Suntory Hall Tokyo.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja has played at significant festivals, to mention but a few: Lucerne Festival, Menuhin-Festival Gstaad, Montreux Jazz Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Wien Modern, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier.
Piano partners include Polina Leschenko, Fazil Say, Mihaela Ursuleasa and Henri Sigfridsson. With him and the cellist Sol Gabetta she forms occasionally a piano trio.
Highlights in 2010 include the concert for the 80. anniversary of the Tschaikovsky Symphonic orchestra in Moscow, a tour in Australia as leader and soloist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and participation at the festivals of Gstaad and Salzburg. And Patricia Kopatchinskaja is especially pleased to play the Beethoven concerto again with Sir Roger Norrington and with Sakari Oramo and the Eötvös concerto with the composer conducting.
Her discography includes three CD's released by NAIVE - a recital with Fazil Say, the new violin concerto of Fazil Say and a recording of all the Beethoven works for violin and orchestra with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées and Philippe Herreweghe. Several previous CDs document contemporary works by Matthias Arter, Johanna Doderer, Nikolai Korndorf, Gerd Kühr, Gerald Resch, Dmitri Smirnov, Boris Yoffe and Otto Zykan.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja composes occasionally herself and she is not afraid of contemporary music. She gave the first performances of the violin concertos written for her by Johanna Doderer, Otto Zykan, Gerald Resch, Gerd Kühr, Jürg Wyttenbach and Fazil Say. Pieces were dedicated to her by Richard Carrick, Violeta Dinescu, Michalis Economou, Ludwig Nussbichler, Ivan Sokolov, Boris Yoffe and many others. She also likes to improvise solo or with others (e.g. Barry Guy, Burhan Öçal, Fazil Say or Mahmoud Turkmani). Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays a violin made in 1834 by Giovanni Francisco Pressenda, according to The STRAD magazine "a colourful-sounding instrument, whose viola-like quality lends her playing exceptional tonal interest". Acting as good-will ambassador for the charity Terre des Hommes, Patricia Kopatchinskaja especially supports projects for children in Moldova.
Further information on the website: www.patriciakopatchinskaja.com.