Patricia Kopatchinskaja Explained

Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Birth Place:Chișinău, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Genre:Classical music
Instrument:Violin

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (born March 1977)[1] is a Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist.

Biography

Early life

Kopatchinskaja was born in Chișinău, in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Moldova). She comes from a family of musicians. Her parents were both with the state folk ensemble of Moldova: her mother, Emilia Kopatchinskaja, was a violinist, and her father, Viktor Kopatchinsky, was a cimbalom player. While her parents were on concert tour through the former Eastern bloc, she grew up with her grandparents.[2] [3] She started playing the violin at age 6.[4]

In 1989, the family fled to Vienna.[5] Kopatchinskaja entered the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna at age 17,[2] where she studied musical composition and violin. From age 21 to 23, she finished her studies in Bern,[2] at the Musikhochschule, where her teachers included Igor Ozim. Kopatchinskaja, her Swiss neurologist husband,[6] [7] and their daughter live in Bern, Switzerland.[4]

Career

In 2016, Kopatchinskaja wrote an editorial for The Guardian outlining her approach to music and her career and her preference for playing music "from the borders" of the repertoire instead of the standard repertoire of "Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and Bruch."[8] She later said, "Standard pieces should be used only as exceptional, rare elements in programmes. There are enough recordings out there already.… The classical music industry is so far behind. If someone does anything that’s even just a tiny bit different, it becomes a huge, heated discussion."[9]

In 2014, the British Royal Philharmonic Society gave Kopatchinskaja one of its annual Music Awards in the instrumentalist category, calling her an "irresistible force of nature: passionate, challenging and totally original in her approach".[10]

Soloist

Kopatchinskaja has played with most of the important European orchestras including Vienna, Berlin and London Philharmonic. She regularly plays in Japan and Australia and recently also extended her activity to the United States, South America, Russia and China. She has ongoing collaborations with conductors including Teodor Currentzis, Péter Eötvös, Iván Fischer, Heinz Holliger, Vladimir Jurowski, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle and François-Xavier Roth.

Leading orchestras and festivals

Kopatchinskaja's experience as a leader of ensembles and chamber orchestras includes a tour with Britten Sinfonia, repeated tours with Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra and being an artistic partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra since 2014.[11] Presently she is an artistic partner of the Camerata Bern. She has organised several staged concert productions, including "Death and the Maiden" with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, "Bye-Bye Beethoven" with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, "Dies Irae" with Lucerne Festival Alumni, and "War and Chips" and "Time and Eternity" with Camerata Bern.

From 2003 to 2005 Kopatchinskaja organised the Rüttihubeliade festival in the Swiss Alps. In June 2018, she was the music director of the Ojai Music Festival in California.[12]

Chamber music partners

Regular chamber music partners include cellist Sol Gabetta, clarinettist Reto Bieri and the pianists Joonas Ahonen, Markus Hinterhäuser, Polina Leschenko and Anthony Romaniuk. In April 2016, Kopatchinskaja performed with Anoushka Shankar at a concert in Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany. The Raga Piloo was composed, performed and recorded by Ravi Shankar as a duet with Yehudi Menuhin on the album West Meets East, Volume 2 in 1968.

Historically informed performance

Kopatchinskaja has collaborated with Il Giardino Armonico, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MusicAeterna Perm, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the direction of Giovanni Antonini, René Jacobs and Philippe Herreweghe. She also has performed with Sir Roger Norrington and Roy Goodman.

New music and works

Kopatchinskaja has been outspoken in her support of new works and living composers, as well as works not considered part of the standard violin repertoire. She has performed and recorded works by Luca Francesconi, Francisco Coll García, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Sanchez-Chiong, Stefano Gervasoni, Simone Movio, Michael Hersch, Esa Pekka Salonen, Péter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, and Michel van der Aa. Her "Time and Eternity" program with Camerata Bern, recorded for Alpha Classics, featured music by John Zorn, Ikonnikow, Tadeusz Sygietynski, Machaut, and Bach, along with Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Concerto Funebre.

Voice

Kopatchinskaja uses the voice in several compositions, including John Cage's Living Room Music, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong's Crin, Michael Hersch's Duo for violin and cello Das Rückgrat berstend, Heinz Holliger's Das kleine Irgendwas, her own cadenza for György Ligeti's Violin Concerto, and Otto Zykan's Das mit der Stimme.

In 2017, Kopatchinskaja performed the voice part (Sprechgesang) in Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire in the USA[13] and since 2018 has performed the piece many times with, among others, members of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Montreal and Göteborg Symphonies, and her own ensemble.

In 2018–19, Kopatchinskaja and some friends made a film based on Kurt Schwitters's Dadaistic nonsense poem "Ursonate" (1932). It has been shown at several festivals.[14]

Violin

Kopatchinskaja plays a violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda (Turin) in 1834,[15] which The Strad's Dennis Rooney called "a very colourful-sounding instrument whose viola-like quality lent her playing exceptional tonal interest". In 2010, she briefly played the 1741 "ex-Carrodus" violin by Guarneri del Gesù, on loan from the Austrian National Bank but had to give it back because of unresolvable problems with Swiss customs authorities. In period-instrument environments, she uses a violin by Ferdinando Gagliano (Naples, ca. 1780, mounted with a lowered bridge and gut strings) and appropriate bows.

First performances

Kopatchinskaja has given first performances of numerous works, e.g.:

Richard Carrick, Violeta Dinescu, Michalis Economou, Heinz Holliger, Ludwig Nussbichler, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Ivan Sokolov, and Boris Yoffe have also written works for her.

Awards

Discography

releasedpiecescollaboratorspublisher/Nr.type
1998ein klang 1996–1998

Johanna Doderer

  • Awakening 2 for three Violins
  • Kinga Voss (Violin)
  • Jacqueline Kopacinski (Violin)
Einklang Records 001/002Double-CD
2001An Introduction To Dmitri Smirnov
  • Elegy (in Memory of Edison Denisov) for cello solo
  • String of Destiny (Piano Sonata No.4) for piano
  • "Es ist..." (Violin Sonata No.3)
  • Trio for violin, cello and piano
  • Sonata (for cello and piano)
  • Postlude (in Memory of Alfred Schnittke) for violin solo
  • Alexander Iwashkin (cello)
  • Ivan Sokolov (piano)
Megadisc 7818CD
2001Nikolai Korndorf
  • In Honour of Alfred Schnittke (trio for violin, viola and cello)
  • Passacaglia for cello solo
  • Are you ready, Brother? (trio for piano, violin and cello)
  • Daniel Raiskin (viola)
  • Alexander Iwashkin (cello)
  • Ivan Sokolov (piano)
Megadisc 7817CD
2004Boris Yoffe, 32 poems from the quartet book
  • Daniel Kobyliansky (violin)
  • Boris Yoffe (viola)
  • Dichtiar Druski (cello)
Antes Edition, Bella Musica 319192CD
2006Jubilee-CD Classics (50 years DRS 2)

on CD Nr.10. („Young Talents“) by Kopatchinskaja

George Enescu

  • Third Sonata (Dans le charactère populaire roumain)
    • 1. Moderato malinconico
    • 2. Andante sostenuto e misterioso
    • 3. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso
Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)Swiss Radio DRS2, CDL171010 CDs
2006Johanna Doderer
  • For violin and orchestra (dedicated to Kopatchinskaja)
  • Bolero for two pianos and orchestra
  • Rondane for orchestra
Edition Zeitton des ORF 2009336CD
2007Boris Yoffe, Musical Semantics

Boris Yoffe

  • Seven poems from the quartet book
  • Essay
  • Leicht, aber mit Hingabe
  • Daniel Kobylianski (violin)
  • Jacqueline Kopacinski (violin)
  • Roman Spitzer (viola)
  • Druski Dichtiar (cello)
  • Angela Yoffe (piano)
Megadisc MDC 7798CD
2008Fazıl Say 1001 Nights in the Harem

Fazıl Say

  • Violin concerto '1001 nights in the harem'
  • Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
  • John Axelrod (conductor)
Naïve, V 5147CD
2008Gerd Kühr
  • Movimenti for violin and orchestra (2006)

Gerald Resch

  • "Schlieren" concerto for Violin and orchestra (2005)

Otto Zykan

  • "Da unten im Tale" concerto for violin and orchestra (2004, dedicated to P.K.)
  • Radio-Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO)
  • Stefan Asbury (conductor)
  • Johannes Kalitzke (conductor)
  • Bertrand de Billy (conductor)
col legno, WWE 1CD 20279CD
2009Beethoven: Complete works for violin and orchestraLudwig van Beethoven
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra D-Major op. 61
  • Romance for violin and orchestra Nr. 2 F-Major op. 50
  • Romanze for violin and orchestra Nr. 1 G-Major op. 40
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra C-Major WoO 5, fragment of the first movement
Naïve, V 5174CD
2009Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Violin sonata Nr. 9 („Kreutzer“)

Maurice Ravel

  • Violin sonata in G-Major

Béla Bartók

  • 6 Roumanian folk dances

Fazıl Say

  • Violin sonata op. 7
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
  • Fazıl Say (piano)
Naïve, V 5146CD
2010Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia – Music from my homeland
  • Works by Enescu, Kurtag, Ligeti, Sánchez-Chiong, Ravel, Moldovan Folklore
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
  • Emilia Kopatchinskaja (violin & viola)
  • Viktor Kopatchinsky (cymbalom)
  • Martin Gjakonovski (double bass)
  • Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)
Naïve, V 5193CD
2012Three Hungarian violin concertos
  • Bartók: Violin concerto Nr. 2
  • Eötvös: Violin concerto Nr. 1 ("Seven")
  • Ligeti: Violin concerto
Naïve, V 5285Double-CD
2013Two Russian violin concertos
  • Stravinsky: Concerto in re
  • Prokofjev: Violin concerto Nr. 2
Naïve, V 5352CD
2014Quasi Parlando ECM New Series 2323CD
2014Galina Ustvolskaya
  • Violin sonata, Duet, Clarinet Trio
ECM New Series 2329CD
2015Giya Kancheli
  • Chiaroscuro, Twilight
ECM New Series 2442CD
2015Take TwoDuets from 1000 years of musical history

Works by Gesualdo, De Machaut, Gibbons, Giamberti, Biber, Bach, De Falla, Milhaud, Vivier, Martinu, Cage, Holliger, Sotelo, Dick, Sanchez-Chiong and from Winchester Troper

  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin, baroque violin, voice)
  • Reto Bieri (clarinet, violin, ocarina)
  • Laurence Dreyfus (treble viol)
  • Pablo Marquez (guitar)
  • Anthony Romaniuk (harpsichord, toy piano)
  • Jorge Sanchez-Chiong (turntables and electronics)
  • Matthias Würsch (darbuka)
  • Ernesto Estrella (voice)
Alpha ClassicsCD
2016Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski
  • Violin concerto
  • Les Noces
Sony classicalCD
2016 Robert SchumannComplete symphonic works Vol.4
  • Violin concerto
  • Piano concerto
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
  • Denes Varjon (piano)
  • WDR-Symphony-Orchestra, Cologne
  • Heinz Holliger, conductor
AuditeCD
2016 Faradj Karaev
  • Violin concerto
  • Vingt ans après "Nostalgie..." (Symphony)
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Violin)
  • Azerbaijan Symphony Orchestra Baku
  • Rauf Abullayev, conductor
Paladino MusicCD
2016 Robert SchumannComplete symphonic works Vol.5
  • Concert pieces for piano and orchestra op. 92 und 134
  • Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra op.131
  • Concert piece for four horns and orchestra op. 86
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Violin)
  • Alexander Lonquich (Piano)
  • WDR-Symphony-Orchestra, Cologne
  • Heinz Holliger, conductor
AuditeCD
2016 Franz SchubertDeath and the Maiden and also other works by Gesualdo, Dowland, Nörmiger, Kurtag etc.
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin, direction)
  • Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Alpha classicsCD
2018 Francis Poulenc
  • Violin sonata

Leo Delibes

  • Waltz from Coppélia for piano solo

Béla Bartók

  • Violin sonata Nr.2

Maurice Ravel

  • Tzigane
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Violin)
  • Polina Leschenko (Piano)
Alpha ClassicsCD
2018 Michael Hersch End Stages, Violin Concerto
  • Violin Concerto (2015)
  • End Stages for Orchestra
  • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (End Stages)
  • ICE – International contemporary Ensemble, New York (violin concerto)
  • Tito Munoz, Dirigent (violin concerto)
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
New Focus Recordingsfcr 208CD
2019 Time and Eternity
  • John Zorn: Kol Nidre
  • Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Concerto funebre
  • Frank Martin: Polyptyque
  • Lubos Fiser: Crux
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Choral transcriptions for strings
  • Camerata Bern
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (concept, direction, solo violin)
Alpha Classicsalpha545CD
2020 "WHATS NEXT VIVALDI?"
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Concertos RV 157, 191, 208, 253, 550
  • Aurelio Cattaneo: Estroso
  • Luca Francesconi: Spiccato Il Volo
  • Simone Movio: Incanto XIX
  • Marco Stroppa: Dilanio Avvinto
  • Giovanni Sollima: Moghul
  • Bela Bartok: The Bagpipe
  • Il Giardino Armonico
  • Giovanni Antonini (cond., recorder)
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (solo violin)
Alpha Classicsalpha624CD
2020 "PLAISIRS ILLUMINÉS" Alpha Classicsalpha580CD
2021"PIERROT LUNAIRE"
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja (voice, violin)
  • Joonas Ahonen, piano
  • Reto Bieri, clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Julia Gallego, flute
  • Meesun Hong Coleman, violin, viola
  • Thomas Kaufmann, violoncello
Alpha Classicsalpha722CD
2021"PORTRAIT FRANCISCO COLL"
  • Francisco Coll: Concerto for violin and orchestra (2019)
  • Francisco Coll: Hidd'n Blue, Op. 6 for orchestra (2009-2011)
  • Francisco Coll: Mural for large orchestra (2013-2015)
  • Francisco Coll: Four Iberian Miniatures for violin and chamber orchestra (2014)
  • Francisco Coll: Aqua Cinerea for large orchestra (2005)
PentatonePTC 5186951CD
2021"SOL & PAT"
  • Jean-Marie Leclair: Tambourin In C Major
  • Jörg Widmann: From the Duos for Violin and Cello
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Presto, Helm 66 VI
  • Francisco Coll: Rizoma
  • Maurice Ravel: Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Cello, M.73
  • Marcin Markowicz: Interlude
  • Julien-Francois Zbinden: La Fête au Village, Op.9
  • Iannis Xenakis: Dhipli Zyia
  • Gyôrgy Ligeti: Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg
  • Zoltan Kodâly: Duo for Violin and Cello in D Minor, Op.7
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude No.15 in G Major, BWV 860
Alpha Classicsalpha 757

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Notes and References

  1. News: Roddy. Michael. 14 March 2014. Moldovan violinist Kopatchinskaja: 'Art should be alive'. en. Reuters. 20 September 2020.
  2. News: Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Wild child of classical violin . . Ivan Hewett . 14 August 2014 . 26 November 2015.
  3. "Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Ich kenne Dich, ich habe Dich spielen gehört". Documentary film, 2012. (Director: Béla Batthyany)
  4. News: Interview: violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja . . Andrew Clark . 20 September 2013 . 26 November 2015.
  5. Web site: Viktor Kopatchinsky Biography . Thespco.org . 20 November 2014 . 27 February 2020.
  6. News: Wir spielen keine Noten . Die Zeit . Christiane Peitz . 8 October 2009 . 26 November 2015.
  7. News: Mein rollendes R . Die Zeit . Christine Lemke-Matwey . 2 January 2014 . 26 November 2015.
  8. News: Kopatchinskaja . Patricia . 5 February 2016 . Patricia Kopatchinskaja: We all need madness in our worlds . en-GB . The Guardian . 20 September 2020 . 0261-3077.
  9. Web site: 12 May 2016 . Upside Down . 20 September 2020 . VAN Magazine . en.
  10. Web site: Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja receives RPS Music Award for Instrumentalist. The Strad. 1 June 2021.
  11. News: Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja appointed artistic partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra . The Strad . 3 February 2014 . 26 November 2015.
  12. Web site: Ojai Music Festival and Music Director Patricia Kopatchinskaja Announce the 72nd Festival: June 7–10, 2018 – Ojai Music Festival. 25 October 2017. 27 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140839/https://www.ojaifestival.org/2018-announcement/. 12 June 2018. dead.
  13. News: Patricia Kopatchinskaja makes Schoenberg fun . Rob Hubbard . Pioneer Press . 27 October 2017 . 22 February 2018.
  14. Web site: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Facebook.com. 27 July 2018.
  15. News: Jason Price . 16 February 2018 . Patricia Kopatchinskaja's Pressenda 1834 . Tarisio.com . 22 February 2018.
  16. Web site: DODERER The Piano Trios. David Gutman. Gramophone.co.uk. 12 November 2015.
  17. Web site: Der Ton, der durch die Musik wandelt . Derbund.ch . 28 October 2015.
  18. Web site: Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja withdraws from concerts due to injury. The Strad. 11 November 2015. 12 November 2015.
  19. Web site: Kopatchinskaja premières Sotelo. Universal Edition blog. 15 June 2016. 19 June 2016.
  20. Web site: Patricia Kopatchinskaja enters Fred Popovici's sound world.
  21. http://classicanova.biz/Prize%20winners%20strings.htm Classica Nova Prize Winners
  22. Web site: パトリシア・コパチンスカヤ:avex-CLASSICS. Avex.jp. 12 November 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112542/http://avex.jp/classics/artist/patricia/profile_e.html. 4 March 2016.
  23. Violinistin Kopatchinskaja erhält "Förderpreis" auf radiobremen.de (archived in Internet Archive on 17 May 2010), checked on 19 March 2014
  24. Web site: Schweizer Musikpreis 2017 – Patricia Kopatchinskaja gewinnt den Grand Prix Musik. Srf.ch. 22 September 2017. 29 January 2018.
  25. Web site: Classical strings in the 60th Grammy Awards nominations. Thestrad.com. 29 January 2018.
  26. Web site: Patricia Kopatchinskaja . Grammy.com . 19 May 2020 . 28 August 2020.
  27. Web site: Ins Innere der Musik. Nmz.de.
  28. Web site: Kopatchinskaja und Gerhaher neue Ehrenmitglieder der Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft. Magazin.klassik.com.
  29. Web site: Home . opusklassik.de.
  30. Web site: BBC Music Magazine award winners announced .