©Photo: Marco Borggreve

©Photo: Marco Borggreve

©Photo: Marco Borggreve

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja

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“Constantly characterised (and slightly demeaned) as a “quirky maverick”, Kopatchinskaja proved here that she’s in a class of her own.”
(Richard Morrison, The Times, September 2019)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s focus is to get to the heart of the music, to its meaning for us — now and here. With a combination of depth, brilliance and humour, Kopatchinskaja brings an inimitable sense of theatrics to her music. Described by The New York Times “a player of rare expressive energy and disarming informality, of whimsy and theatrical ambition”, Kopatchinskaja’s distinctive approach always conveys the essence of a work, whether in a fresh interpretation of a violin repertoire classic or through one of her original staged projects that cross musical, theatrical, and interdisciplinary boundaries.

A visionary who thrives on experimentation and collaboration, she describes contemporary music as her lifeblood. Her artistic partnerships with living composers such as Francisco Coll, Luca Francesconi, Michael Hersch, Márton Illés, György Kurtág, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Aureliano Cattaneo have resulted in numerous world premieres. Kopatchinskaja directs staged concerts at venues on both sides of the Atlantic and collaborates with leading orchestras, conductors, and festivals worldwide. A virtuoso, storyteller, and all-around phenomenon, Kopatchinskaja continues to serve as Artistic Partner of the SWR Symphony Orchestra, designing her own programmes in both established and innovative staged concert formats. Among these is the staged concert The Peace Project, which reflects on centuries of existential suffering caused by war through a kaleidoscope of baroque and modern works up to the present day. The project addresses the numerous reports from war zones, the violent disruption of daily life, and the constant fear for one’s life and loved ones.

Kopatchinskaja kicks off the 2025/26 season with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Further ahead, she appears as the London Symphony Orchestra’s Artist Portrait, performing Berg’s Violin Concerto, Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, and Márton Illés’ Violin Concerto, including a tour to Spain. She also channels her creative prowess and versatility into composition and celebrates a personal milestone as composer with the performance of her double concerto for violin and cello, Five Dreams, at the Lucerne Festival Forward. Following her debut with the New York Philharmoniclast season, Kopatchinskaja also debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra. Two of her signature staged projects feature prominently this season. Dies Irae — a part-concert, part-installation presented at Princeton University — merges a fierce musical enactment of the Day of Judgment with a sharp critique of war and the climate crisis as drivers of human self-destruction. Drawing on works by Scelsi, Biber, Crumb, Hendrix, Lotti, Dowland, and Ustvolskaya, the provocative, semi-staged performance evokes a haunting “day of wrath” in response to global collapse, resource wars, and the refugee crisis. At the Salzburg Festival she revives another signature project, Les Adieux, confronting the rapid deterioration of the natural world. Following her tenure as Artist-in-Residence at the Prague Spring Festival 2025, Kopatchinskaja reunites with the Czech Philharmonic and Jakub Hrůša for Fišer’s Violin Concerto. She also champions new music with the world premiere of a violin concerto by Stefano Gervasoni with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as part of the Festival ManiFeste.

“Being Pat” | Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violinist © Chris Shimojima

In recent seasons, Kopatchinskaja has curated major residencies at the Southbank Centre, London, Wiener Konzerthaus (where she is the youngest honorary member of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft), Philharmonie Essen, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Last year’s Golden Decade festival at the Dresden Philharmonic featured her performing six major violin works from the Classical Modern era over three consecutive evenings. Highlights have included Songs and Fragments, a Barrie Kosky production at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence together with soprano Anna Prohaska and a daring musical experiment with Herbert Fritsch — a Neo-Dada opera production Vergeigt at Theater Basel. Last season, Kopatchinskaja honoured Schönberg’s 150^th anniversary by performing his monumental violin concerto with the BBC and Vienna Symphony orchestras, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, to name just a few. As part of the anniversary celebration, Kopatchinskaja’s performance of Pierrot Lunaire at the Palau de la Música in 2025 took place exactly 100 years to the day after Schönberg himself staged his melodrama at this venue. Kopatchinskaja also performs as a vocal artist in Ligeti’s Mystères du macabre or Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire where she takes on the role of Pierrot himself, as well as her project presenting Kurt Schwitters’ poem Ursonate as a film in the style of Dada. She was also an Associated Artist of the SWR Experimentalstudio, one of the world’s leading centres for electronic music research.

Kopatchinskaja’s discography includes over 30 recordings, among them GRAMMY award-winning Death and the Maiden with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, a project which was also re-created as a semi-staged filmed performance with Camerata Bern. Recent CD releases season included Les Plaisirs Illuminés with Sol Gabetta and Camerata Bern, which was saluted with a BBC Music Magazine award and Le monde selon George Antheil with Joonas Ahonen (both on Alpha Classics). A revival of the project Maria Mater Meretrix with Anna Prohaska presenting the image of women throughout the centuries in a musical mosaic was also released on CD last season, as well as a new recording with Fazil Say which marks the comeback of their duo and has been awarded Editor’s Choice by Gramophone. This season has also seen the release of the album Take 3 with clarinettist Reto Bieri and pianist Polina Leschenko — a testament to the enduring partnership of these three artists, celebrating their shared musical journey and musical origins.

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Season Highlights

March 2025

Klara Festival

Repertoire:

BACH - Sarabande only

IGOR STRAVINSKY: Concerto for Violin in D

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Suite No. 5 for Cello Solo in C minor, BWV 1011

OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Les Offrandes oubliees

PATKOP: A Play

March 2025

Klara Festival

Repertoire:

PK Dies Irae 2024

GIACINTO SCELSI: Okanagon

HEINRICH BIBER: Battalia à 10, No. 1 Sonata, No. 2 Die liederliche Gesellschaft von allerley Humor, No. 3 Presto

GEORGE CRUMB: Black Angels, No. 2 Sounds of Bones and Flutes

HEINRICH BIBER: Battalia à 10, No. 4 Der Mars, No. 5 Presto

GEORGE CRUMB: Black Angels, No. 5 Danse Macabre

HEINRICH BIBER: Battalia à 10, No. 6 Aria

GEORGE CRUMB: Black Angels, No. 4 Devil-music

HEINRICH BIBER: Battalia à 10, No. 7 Die Schlacht

GEORGE CRUMB: Black Angels, No. 10 God-music

HEINRICH BIBER: Battalia à 10, No. 8 Adagio. Lamento der Verwundten Musquetirer

GEORGE CRUMB: Black Angels, No. 7 Threnody II: Black Angels!

ANTONIO LOTTI: Cruzifixus

JOHN DOWLAND: Lachrimae antiquae novae

GALINA USTVOLSKAYA: Composition No. 2: “Dies Irae” for eight double basses, percussion and piano

TRADITIONAL: Dies Irae

April 2025

Auditorio Principe Felipe

Repertoire:

JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR: Tambourin in C major

JÖRG WIDMANN: 24 Duos for Violin and Violoncello, Vol. 2: VIII Valse bavaroise, Vol. 2: XI Toccatina all’inglese

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 860

FRANCISCO COLL: Rizoma

MAURICE RAVEL: Sonata for Violin and Cello

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Fifteen Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772-786

PATKOP: Ghiribizzi

GYÖRGY LIGETI: Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg

IANNIS XENAKIS: Dhipli Zyia for Violin and Cello

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: Presto for Keyboard in C Minor, Wq 114/3

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op.7

April 2025

Centro Nacional de Difusion Musical

Repertoire:

JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR: Tambourin in C major

JÖRG WIDMANN: 24 Duos for Violin and Violoncello, Vol. 2: VIII Valse bavaroise, Vol. 2: XI Toccatina all’inglese

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 860

FRANCISCO COLL: Rizoma

MAURICE RAVEL: Sonata for Violin and Cello

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Fifteen Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772-786

PATKOP: Ghiribizzi

GYÖRGY LIGETI: Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg

IANNIS XENAKIS: Dhipli Zyia for Violin and Cello

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: Presto for Keyboard in C Minor, Wq 114/3

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op.7

April 2025

Palau de la Musica

Repertoire:

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op.9

PATKOP: Luna

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Pierrot Lunaire

May 2025

Teatro alla Scala

Repertoire:

STEFANO GERVASONI: Tacet

FRANCESCO FILIDEI: Cantico delle Creature

GYÖRGY KURTÁG: Kafka Fragments

AURELIANO CATTANEO: Not alone we fly

May 2025

Camerata Bern

Repertoire:

JOHN ZORN: Kol Nidrei

KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN: Concerto funèbre

NIKOLAY IKONIKOV: Unsterbliche Opfer

GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT: Messe de Notre Dame, 1. Kyrie

FRANK MARTIN: Polyptyque for violin and two string orchestras, I. Image des Rameaux

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: St John Passion, BWV 245 – Chorale “Ach großer König” (transcription for string orchestra)

FRANK MARTIN: Polyptyque for violin and two string orchestras, II. Image de la Chambre haute

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Chorale “Als Jesus Christus in der Nacht”, BWV 265

FRANK MARTIN: Polyptyque for violin and two string orchestras, III. Image de Juda

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: St John Passion, BWV 245 – Chorale “Durch dein Gefängnis” (transcription for string orchestra)

FRANK MARTIN: Polyptyque for violin and two string orchestras, IV. Image de Géthsémané

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: St John Passion, BWV 245 – Chorale “Wer hat dich so geschlagen” (transcription for string orchestra)

FRANK MARTIN: Polyptyque for violin and two string orchestras, V. Image du Jugement

LUBOS FISER: Crux for violin, kettle drums and bells

FRANK MARTIN: Polyptyque for violin and two string orchestras, VI. Image de la Glorification

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: St John Passion, BWV 245 – Chorale “O große Lieb” (transcription for string orchestra)

May 2025

Rudolfinum / Dvořák Hall

Repertoire:

IGOR STRAVINSKY: Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale)

DARIUS MILHAUD: JEU for Clarinet and Violin

BÉLA BARTÓK: Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin and Piano, Sz.111

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Pierrot Lunaire

LUBOS FISER: Sonata for Solo Violin 'In Memoriam Terezin'

LUBOS FISER: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Ruce)

LUBOS FISER: Sonata for Solo Piano No. 3

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 G major op. 96

May 2025

Auditorium de Radio France

Repertoire:

LILI BOULANGER: D’un Matin de Printemps

ALBAN BERG: Violin Concerto (1935)

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Symphony No. 7 in C major (Le Midi), Hob. I:7

RICHARD STRAUSS: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

July 2025

Aspen Music Festival & School

Repertoire:

JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR: Tambourin in C major

JÖRG WIDMANN: 24 Duos for Violin and Violoncello, Vol. 2: VIII Valse bavaroise, Vol. 2: XI Toccatina all’inglese

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 860

FRANCISCO COLL: Rizoma

MAURICE RAVEL: Sonata for Violin and Cello

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Fifteen Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772-786

PATKOP: Ghiribizzi

GYÖRGY LIGETI: Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg

IANNIS XENAKIS: Dhipli Zyia for Violin and Cello

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: Presto for Keyboard in C Minor, Wq 114/3

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op.7

July 2025

Vail Valley Music Festival

Repertoire:

IGOR STRAVINSKY: Concerto for Violin in D

JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR: Tambourin in C major

JÖRG WIDMANN: 24 Duos for Violin and Violoncello, Vol. 2: VIII Valse bavaroise, Vol. 2: XI Toccatina all’inglese

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 860

FRANCISCO COLL: Rizoma

MAURICE RAVEL: Sonata for Violin and Cello

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Fifteen Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772-786

PATKOP: Ghiribizzi

GYÖRGY LIGETI: Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg

IANNIS XENAKIS: Dhipli Zyia for Violin and Cello

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: Presto for Keyboard in C Minor, Wq 114/3

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op.7

July 2025

Stiftung Mozarteum

Repertoire:

TIGRAN MANSURIAN: Four Serious Songs (Concerto No. 2) for Violin and String Orchestra

GALINA USTVOLSKAYA: Duet for Violin and Piano (1964)

PETERIS VASKS: Musica Dolorosa

August 2025

Camerata Bern

Repertoire:

GIAMBERTI Cu cu only

SCHUBERT Menuett Nr. 3 only

ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK: Arbor Cosmica (12 Evocations for 12 Strings), I. Andante moderato

TRADITIONAL: Cucuşor cu pană sură

ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK: Arbor Cosmica (12 Evocations for 12 Strings), IV. Prestissimo possibile

EUGÈNE YSAŸE: Exil, Op. 25

HEINZ HOLLIGER: Duöli

ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK: Arbor Cosmica (12 Evocations for 12 Strings), VI. Lento-moderato-vivacissimo

PATKOP: Intermezzo

ALFRED SCHNITTKE: Sonata for cello and piano No. 1

ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK: Arbor Cosmica (12 Evocations for 12 Strings), VIII. Molto allegro

GIUSEPPE GIAMBERTI: Duo tessuti con diversi solfeggiamenti, scherzi, perfidie, et oblighi (1657)

FRANZ SCHUBERT: Five minuets with six trios, D89, 3. Minuet and Trio in D minor

ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK: Arbor Cosmica (12 Evocations for 12 Strings), X. Molto vivace

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN: Violin Concerto, TWV 51:A4, "Die Relinge"

ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK: Arbor Cosmica (12 Evocations for 12 Strings), XII. Presto

JEAN-FERY REBEL: Le cahos (Chaos) from Les Élémens

HEINZ HOLLIGER: Duöli

August 2025

Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum

Repertoire:

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Fantasie für Violine und Klavier

ERIK SATIE: Choses vues à droite et à gauche

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 G major, Op. 30/3

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23

GEORGE ANTHEIL: Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano (1923)

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Season Highlights

Klara Festival

Klara Festival

Auditorio Principe Felipe

Centro Nacional de Difusion Musical

Palau de la Musica

Teatro alla Scala

Camerata Bern

Rudolfinum / Dvořák Hall

Auditorium de Radio France

Aspen Music Festival & School

Vail Valley Music Festival

Stiftung Mozarteum

Camerata Bern

Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum

Camerata Bern & Patricia Kopatchinskaja head to Japan

Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Camerata Bern — Edinburgh International Festival

Camerata Bern and Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Grenoble and Bern

Il Giardino Armonico: Vivaldi Furioso

Maxime Pascal and Patricia Kopatchinskaja join l’Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai for a programme of contemporary music

Patricia Kopatchinskaja Leads Centenary Tribute to Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at Palau de la Música Catalana

Patricia Kopatchinskaja makes her New York Philharmonic debut this week – A rare double spotlight in The New York Times

Patricia Kopatchinskaja leads Peace Projects at SWR & Lucerne Festival Forward

Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s dazzling Carnegie Hall debut

Patricia Kopatchinskaja awarded Austrian Art Prize 2024

Patricia Kopatchinskaja appears in Barrie Kosky’s Songs and Fragments in Aix-en-Provence

Patricia Kopatchinskaja offers extraordinary exploration of Classical Modernism as Artist in Residence at Dresdener Philharmonie

Patricia Kopatchinskaja appointed Artistic Partner of SWR Symphony Orchestra

Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Wiener Konzerthaus

Three HarrisonParrott artists announced as finalists in ICMA 2024 Awards

Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins Ensemble Intercontemporain for illuminating Paris Performances

Nominations are in for 2024’s ICMA Awards

Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta tour Germany

Hannu Lintu and Patricia Kopatchinskaja join Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Touring clients & HP artists head to George Enescu Festival 2023

Patricia Kopatchinskaja is Artist in Residence and Ambassador at Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Debuts & returns for HP artists at Salzburg Festival 2023

HARRISONPARROTT & POLYARTS ARTISTS NOMINATED FOR 2023 OPUS KLASSIK AWARDS

Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Randall Goosby Artists-in-Residence at Southbank Centre

Ten HP artists & touring clients perform at EIF 2023

Patricia Kopatchinskaja tours ​‘Maria Mater Meretrix’ with Ensemble Resonanz

JANUARY’S NEW ALBUM RELEASES 2023

Patricia Kopatchinskaja — In search of Ligeti’s lost melody

CAMERATA BERN WITH PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA IN ROTTERDAM

Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s residency in Oslo

HARRISONPARROTT ARTISTS SHORTLISTED FOR GRAMOPHONE CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS 2022

TOURING SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS 2022

HarrisonParrott artists win two BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022

HarrisonParrott and Polyarts artists appear in 2022 BBC Proms

MAXIME PASCAL PERFORMS IN MILAN WITH PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA

Camerata Bern and Patricia Kopatchinskaja embark on a short tour to Grenoble

Patricia Kopatchinskaja showcases Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto in an extensive tour of Europe and the UK

Pierre Bleuse conducts Lemanic Modern Ensemble

Four HarrisonParrott artists win ICMA 2022 awards

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA AND SOL GABETTA TOUR EUROPE

Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins Belgian National Orchestra with Aziz Shokhakimov

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA OPENS HER RESIDENCY WITH THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC

Nicolas Altstaedt & Patricia Kopatchinskaja perform at Enescu Festival with London Philharmonic Orchestra

Eight HarrisonParrott artists win Opus Klassik awards

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA: SUMMER FESTIVALS AND DEBUT AT THE BBC PROMS

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA’S SUMMER RECITALS: GSTAAD AND EDINBURGH

HarrisonParrott at 2021 Salzburg Festival

Eight HarrisonParrott Artists perform at Festival d’Aix en Provence 2021

Seven HarrisonParrott artists perform at Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA GIVES RECITALS IN PASSAU, ROTTERDAM

Maxime Pascal conducts works by Luca Francesconi in Paris and Bari

24 HarrisonParrott & Polyarts’ artists are nominated for Opus Klassik 2021 Awards

Eleven HarrisonParrott artists perform at the Edinburgh International Festival 2021

HarrisonParrott artists appear in 2021 BBC Proms

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA PREMIERES LUCA FRANCESCONI’S VIOLIN CONCERTO

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA RELEASES NEW ALBUM WITH ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE DU LUXEMBOURG

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA PERFORMS PIERROT LUNAIRE IN PARIS

Patricia Kopatchinskaja tours ‘Maria Mater Meretrix’ with Ensemble Resonanz

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA RELEASES NEW ALBUM “PIERROT LUNAIRE”

Patricia Kopatchinskaja releases ‘Time and Eternity’

Patricia Kopatchinskaja premieres ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ in Berlin

Patricia Kopatchinskaja named ‘artiste étoile’ at the Lucerne Summer Festival 2017