Vadim Repin

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Vadim Repin

Vadim Repin in 2008
Born (1971-08-31) August 31, 1971
Novosibirsk, Russia
Education Studied with Zakhar Bron
Occupation Classical violinist
Years active 1982–present
Spouse(s) Svetlana Zakharova

Vadim Viktorovich Repin (Russian: Вадим Викторович Репин; [vɐˈdʲim ˈvʲiktɐrvʲitɕ ˈrʲepʲin];[1] born 31 August 1971) is a Belgian (naturalized) Russian violinist who lives in Vienna.[2]

After hearing one of Repin's performances, violinist Yehudi Menuhin said: "Vadim Repin is simply the best and most perfect violinist that I have ever had the chance to hear."[2][3][4]

Education

Vadim Repin was born in Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, on 31 August 1971. He began to play the violin at the age of five. He went on to study with Zakhar Bron, the famous violin teacher. At only eleven, he won the gold medal in all age categories in the Wienawski Competition and gave his recital débuts in Moscow and St Petersburg. In 1985 at fourteen he made his débuts in Tokyo, München, Berlin, Helsinki; a year later in Carnegie Hall.

Professional career

At the age of 17, he became the youngest winner of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, the world's premier violin competition [citation needed]. He was a member of the jury in the 2009 violin-session of this competition.[5]

Vadim Repin has played under such leading conductors as Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons, and Yehudi Menuhin. He has also played with Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas (with whom he made his United Kingdom debut at The Lichfield Festival in 1985), James Levine, Kurt Masur, Edo de Waart, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Riccardo Muti.

Repin has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra. He regularly collaborates with Nikolai Lugansky and Itamar Golan in recital; other chamber music partners include Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang and Mischa Maisky.

Vadim Repin has been a frequent guest at festivals such as the BBC Proms, Tanglewood, Gstaad and Verbier.[6] In 2010 he played the premiere of James MacMillan Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Gergiev which was dedicated to him.[7]

Repertoire and recordings

Repin specializes in Russian music and French music, particularly the great Russian violin concertos, as well as 20th century and contemporary music. New music in his répertoire includes works by John Adams and Sofia Gubaidulina.

He has recorded violin concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Nikolai Myaskovsky. Repin has also made two CDs of violin and piano music works with Boris Berezovsky and has recorded chamber music with pianists Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev, violist Yuri Bashmet, and cellist Mischa Maisky. In 2010, Repin recorded an album of violin sonatas with pianist Nikolai Lugansky.

The majority of Repin's recordings through 2005 were on the Erato label. However, in 2005 Repin appeared on Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on a disc of chamber music by Sergei Taneyev alongside Mikhail Pletnev, Ilya Gringolts, Nobuko Imai, and Lynn Harrell; and in April 2006 Repin signed an exclusive recording contract with DG.

Instruments

  • 1984–1989 Stradivari 1720 ex-Wieniawski-Wieniawski, as a loan by the UdSSR State Library
  • 1996 Repin played shortly the Guarneri del Gesù 1737 Isaac Stern ex-Panette-Panette, a loan by David Fulton
  • 1996–2005 Stradivari Ruby 1708,[8] as a loan by the Stradivari Society in Chicago and previously played by Pablo de Sarasate
  • 2005 Guarneri del Gesù 1742 Il Cannone ex Paganini as a loan by the Municipal Administration of Genua for the use in a concert in the city
  • 2002-2009 Guarneri del Gesù Von Szerdahely 1736
  • Since 2010 Vadim Repin plays a Guarneri del Gesù 1743 Bonjour

His preferred bows are by Nicolaus Kittel and Nicolas Maline.

Private life

Vadim Repin married his second wife Caroline Diemunsch in 2001. His son Leonardo was born in 2006.[9]

His current wife is Svetlana Zakharova, the principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet.[10] They have a daughter, born in February 2011.[11]

External links

Interviews

Reviews

Vadim Repin (violin) and Nikolai Lugansky (piano):

  • Crescendo, review by Noël Godts, translated from French into English, about their recital on 20 November 2002 in Brussels
  • Light-filled brilliance, review by Herbert Müller, translated from German into English, from Wienerzeitung, 27 November 2002

Vadim Repin (violin), Nikolai Lugansky (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello):

  • La Palme d'or pour les trois Russes (French), Critique du récital de Vadim Repin, Nikolaï Lugansky et Misha Maïsky au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, 25 May 2005, written by Gérard Mannoni

References

  1. ↑ Vadim Repin pronounced in Russian
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Article (German) by Susanna Dal Monte on www.oe1.orf.at, 21 June 2012
  3. ↑ Announcement of the Beethoven orchestra Bonn in October 2011 (German)
  4. ↑ "Entry for Vadim Repin on the official site of the Queen Elisabeth competition". Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition. Retrieved 14 July 2013. 
  5. ↑ Vadim Repin Biography
  6. ↑ James MacMillan: Violin Concerto premiere with Vadim Repin article published in April 2010 on boosey.com, the website of Boosey & Hawkes
  7. ↑ Interview de Vadim Repin à l'Actualité Musique d'Evene en Novembre 2008
  8. ↑ Profile of Vadim Repin at the Moscow State Philharmonic Society
  9. ↑ Announcement of a joint performance of Svetlana Zakharova and Vadim Repin at the St Prex Classics in Saint-Prex on 20 and 21 August 2013, published on www.stprexclassics.com
  10. ↑ Bolshoi primadonna et violonist Repin have a daughter article of Ismene Brown from 18 February 2011 on www.theartsdesk.com
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