Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s wide repertoire spans Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartók, Enescu, Kurtág and Ligeti: “Eastern-European folk music is in my blood, whilst contemporary music is the air that I breathe. The classical repertoire is the skeleton that holds all this together.”

Highlights during the 2010/11 season include performances of the Peter Eötvös and Esa-Pekka Salonen violin concertos with the composers conducting. She will also tour with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo, perform with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Sir Roger Norrington, and appear at the Salzburg Summer Festival.

Patricia has performed with orchestras such as the Philharmonia, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, NHK Symphony, Staatskapelle Berlin, Wiener Philharmoniker and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; working with conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Louis Langrée, Kirill Petrenko, Mariss Jansons, Giovanni Antonini and Andris Nelsons. She has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Patricia regularly performs chamber music with Sol Gabetta, Fazil Say as well as members of her family.

Her recordings for Naïve Classique include her unique and highly personal reading of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées which won a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2010 and was described by The Strad as the "best authentic version".