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VideoA day in the life of Patricia Kopatchinskaja
This video, made in 2012, follows the Moldovan-Austrian violinist over a 24-hour period, through rehearsals with the Staatskapelle, salon music at the Brandenburg Gate, a meeting with choreographer Sascha Waltz and her husband, phone calls with her sick daughter and a performance at the Berlin Philharmonic. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shares ...
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Beethoven at Gstaad Menuhin Festival
The Moldovan-born violinist gave this recital with pianist Joonas Ahonen at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy on August 15th. The programme included Webern’s 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7; Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’; and John Cage’s ...
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Dominik Wagner and Patricia Kopatchinskaja on writing their own cadenzas
Cadenza writing has enjoyed a renewed surge in popularity over recent years. In this article by Pauline Harding, two soloists - Dominik Wagner and Patricia Kopatchinskaja - talk about their individual approaches to writing cadenzas
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Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie plans to reopen in September 2020
The Hamburg-based Elbphilharmonie is planning to reopen in September, with tickets sold on the basis of ’Book now, pay later’
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Premiere of the month: Márton Illés’s Én-kör III
Patricia Kopatchinskaja to perform new work requiring ‘power, precision and virtuosity’
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‘It is so unviolinistic’
Patricia Kopatchinskaja on the heartbreak and pain of Schumann’s Violin Concerto
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Review
Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Time & Eternity
A passionate, challenging and ultimately fascinating ‘concept’ album
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja wins Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland’s Würth Prize
Patricia Kopatchinskaja receives the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland, endowed with €15,000
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Power of two
In early May, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Sol Gabetta premiered Akin , a new double concerto written for them by Michel van der Aa. Pwyll ap Siôn attended this performance, in Cologne, Germany, and spoke to composer and soloists about bringing the work to the stage
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Review
Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Hersch
A hyper-expressive account of music by this contemporary US composer
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja on playing Pierrot Lunaire
Here Patricia Kopatchinskaja talks about playing Pierrot Lunaire, a project the violinist first conceived while she was unable to practise due to an arm injury. ‘All my life I’ve felt that I was Pierrot. Whenever I played the piece on my violin as a student which I I spoke the ...
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Polina Leschenko: Deux – works by Poulenc, Bartók and Ravel
POULENC Violin Sonata; DELIBES/DOHNÁNYI Waltz from Coppélia; BARTÓK Violin Sonata no.2; RAVEL Tzigane
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta play Ravel duo
Filmed in a concert at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2014, this video features Austrian-Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performing the third movement of Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Jennifer Higdon pick up 2018 Grammys
Higdon’s Viola Concerto earns her two trophies at 60th Grammy Awards with Kopatchinskaja’s the only one for a classical string player
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Classical strings in the 60th Grammy Awards nominations
The Recording Academy unveils nominations for all categories, including nods for Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Augustin Hadelich, Steven Isserlis and Frank Peter Zimmermann
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja awarded $100,000 Swiss music prize
Government-sponsored prize selects violinist for its top music honour, the Grand Prix suisse de musique
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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja wins Swiss Music Prize
The prize for artists based in Switzerland, worth 25,000 Swiss francs, recognises contributions in all musical genres
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'Being Pat' - stream of consciousness by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja
I play the violin by coincidence. Everything is out of my control and that is magic - like falling in love. We need to remember us as we were children - pure and daring!' In this lighthearted, stream of consciousness video violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja - The Strad's May ...
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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs at London's Wigmore Hall, 2017
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja gives a humorous and characterful performance of Giya Kancheli's Rag-Gidon-Time at London's Wigmore Hall on 27 March 2017 with pianist Polina Leschenko. The concert was captured by medici.tv - the full performance of Webern, Schumann, Bartók and Ravel can be viewed here . ...
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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja receives Canton of Bern prize
The Moldovan musician is one of four recipients of the CHF15,000 award
