Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja is an unusually versatile musician, active in both mainstream repertory and the historical performance scene. She has also played contemporary music and has given at least a dozen world premieres.
Kopatchinskaja was born in Chisinau, then in the Moldavian Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, in 1977. Her mother, a violinist, and her father, a percussionist, both played in a regional state folk music ensemble. Kopatchinskaja took up the violin at six, studying with a local teacher who had been a student of David Oistrakh. When she was 17, her family moved to Vienna, Austria, and she enrolled at the University of Music and the Performing Arts, studying both violin and composition. Kopatchinskaja completed her education at the Hochschule für Musik in Bern, Switzerland, where her teacher was Igor Ozim. She continued to live in Bern, where she married and raised a family. In 2002, she made her recording debut on the Megadisc label on an album of chamber works by composer Nikolai Korndorf.
Kopatchinskaja's résumé of concerto appearances with top orchestras is long and includes those with the Vienna, Berlin, and London Philharmonic Orchestras. Kopatchinskaja owns several violins, including a 1780s Neapolitan instrument by Ferdinando Gagliano that she uses in historical performances. She had to give up a loaner Guarneri del Gesù "ex-Carrodus" of 1741, however, because the logistics of importing it into Switzerland proved too arduous. Kopatchinskaja is equally well known in mainstream and historical-performance spheres; in the latter, she has performed with such ensembles as Il Giardino Armonico, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the innovative MusicAeterna in Perm, Russia. Her chamber music partners include cellist Sol Gabetta, clarinetist Reto Bieri, and pianist Markus Hinterhäuser.
Kopatchinskaja's advocacy of contemporary music has been vigorous, and her world premieres include that of her own violin concerto, Hortus animae, with the Camerata Bern in 2014. Increasingly active in the U.S., Kopatchinskaja has served as an artistic partner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra since 2014. An inspiring musical administrator, she became the artistic director of the Camerata Bern in 2018 and assumed the same position at the Ojai Music Festival in California that same year. Kopatchinskaja's recording catalog includes albums on the Naïve, Audite, ECM, and Alpha labels; on Alpha, she released Time & Eternity with Camerata Bern in 2019. Her recordings are roughly evenly divided between traditional repertory and contemporary music. She released several more albums on Alpha in the 2020s, including Sol & Pat, with cellist Sol Gabetta, in 2021. By 2024, when she was heard on the trio recital Take 3, her recording catalog comprised well over 30 releases.
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Take 3
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Reto Bieri, Polina Leschenko
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 26 Jan 2024
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What's Next Vivaldi?
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 4 Sep 2020
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Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Oren Shevlin, Alexander Lonquich, Dénes Varjon
Symphonic Music - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 2 Nov 2018
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Janáček - Brahms - Bartók
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Fazil Say
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 6 Jan 2023
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Maria Mater Meretrix
Anna Prohaska, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Camerata Bern
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 14 Apr 2023
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Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Eötvös: Seven & Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Classical - Released by naïve classique on 22 Oct 2012
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Stravinsky & Prokofiev : Concertos pour violon
Classical - Released by naïve classique on 14 Oct 2013
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Sol & Pat
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 8 Oct 2021
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Beethoven: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour violon et orchestre
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Concertos - Released by naïve classique on 7 Sep 2009
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Schubert: Death and the Maiden
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 14 Oct 2016
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Le monde selon George Antheil
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Joonas Ahonen
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 13 May 2022
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Sonates et danses pour violon et piano
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Fazil Say
Chamber Music - Released by naïve classique on 15 Sep 2008
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Rapsodia
Classical - Released by naïve classique on 20 Sep 2010
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Giya Kancheli: Chiaroscuro
Gidon Kremer, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Kremerata Baltica
Classical - Released by ECM New Series on 2 Oct 2015
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Tigran Mansurian : Quasi Parlando
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Anja Lechner, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
Classical - Released by ECM New Series on 21 Mar 2014
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Take Two
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 16 Oct 2015
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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 9 Apr 2021
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Plaisirs illuminés
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Camerata Bern, Sol Gabetta
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 8 Jan 2021
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Deux (Bartók, Poulenc & Ravel)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Polina Leschenko
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 15 Feb 2018
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Time & Eternity
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Camerata Bern
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 13 Sep 2019
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Francisco Coll: Orchestral Works
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg , Gustavo Gimeno
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on 21 May 2021
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