Vadim Repin - A Biographical Timeline
“Repin is one of the best we’ve got in the solo violin world. Like his great Russian predecessors, he can convey intensity and passion without forcing his tone . . .”
Los Angelees Times 5 August 2009 |
Born in 1971 in Novosibirsk, Vadim Repin began playing the violin at the age of five and after only six months made his first public appearance. He studied in his hometown with Zakhar Bron. At the age of seven he gave his first performance with orchestra, at eleven, his St. Petersburg recital debut. His international breakthrough came in 1989, when Repin became the youngest-ever winner of the world’s most prestigious and demanding violin competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Since then Vadim Repin has appeared with the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors and at the leading international festivals. His chamber-music partners have included Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Evgeny Kissin, Nikolai Lugansky, Mischa Maisky and Mikhail Pletnev. The violinist has won numerous prizes including an Echo Award as “Instrumentalist of the Year 1999”, the Diapason d’or, the Prix Caecilia and the Edison Award.
Vadim Repin performs on the 1736 “Von Szerdahely” violin made by Guarneri del Gesù.
2001/02 | This season’s engagements include concerts with James Levine and the Munich Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta and the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Mariss Jansons and the Berliner Philharmoniker, as well as his New Zealand debut; performs with Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra at the private wedding-eve concert for Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands |
2002/03 | Concerts with the Baltimore Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony on tour and at Carnegie Hall, and with the Czech Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall; gala concert at Berlin’s Waldbühne with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Mariss Jansons before an audience of 23,000 and broadcast throughout Europe; recitals throughout the USA |
2004 | Appearances include two New Year’s Eve gala concerts (on the same evening) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing; gala concerts with Rostropovich at the Barbican to celebrate the London Symphony Orchestra’s centenary, at the opening of the Olympic Games in Athens and at Munich’s Odeonsplatz before an audience of 8,000 with Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; plays Paganini’s violin, the “Cannone” at the Paganini Festival (“Paganiniana”) in Genoa |
2005 | Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at London’s Festival Hall with Muti and the Philharmonia to celebrate the orchestra’s 60th anniversary; concerts with Eschenbach and the Philadelphia; world premiere of Daniel Brewbaker’s Violin Concerto “Playing and Being Played” (dedicated to Repin) with Yuri Temirkanov and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Repin’s first Deutsche Grammophon recording is released in July: chamber music by Sergei Taneyev, with pianist Mikhail Pletnev and other distinguished soloists (Gramophone Award 2006 in the category “Best Chamber Music Recording”) |
2006 | Concerts in London and UK tour with Dutoit and the Philharmonia, debut in Vienna with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Gergiev, in Amsterdam with Neeme Järvi and the Royal Concertgebouw and in Dresden with Vladimir Jurowski and the Staatskapelle. North American engagements include a Carnegie Hall appearance with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and a gala performance with Plácido Domingo for Washington Opera’s 50th anniversary. Appearances in Asia with Edo de Waart and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and a Japan tour with Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Festival appearances including Verbier, Cortona and the BBC Proms. In March, Vadim Repin signs an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon |
2007 | Concerts include appearances with the New York Philharmonic under Muti, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France under Chung, the NDR Symphony Orchestra under Dohnányi on tour in Germany and in Budapest, Vienna and New York, and the Israel Philharmonic under Temirkanov in Israel. Engagements with three great London orchestras – the Philharmonic (Jurowski), London Symphony Orchestra (Gergiev) and the Philharmonia (Ashkenazy) – in the UK, with the Concertgebouw and Daniele Gatti in Amsterdam, London and Birmingham, and with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Temirkanov in Paris. Appearances with the Vilnius Festival Orchestra at the Vilnius, Rheingau and Menuhin (Gstaad) Festivals. Recitals with pianist Nikolai Lugansky throughout Europe and with pianist Itamar Golan in Italy and Argentina. For his debut solo recording on the Yellow Label, Repin performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Muti, and the “Kreutzer” Sonata with Martha Argerich |
2008 | Concerts throughout Europe, including with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Yan Pascal Tortelier, the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko, the Orchestre de Paris with Neeme Järvi, the London Symphony Orchestra under Gergiev and the Philharmonia under Salonen; USA appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago and Detroit Symphony orchestras and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Extended recital tours in the USA, Europe and Japan with Lugansky and Golan, including the Salzburg Festival; further festival appearances include Rheingau and Schleswig-Holstein |
2009 | Concerts with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Thielemann; tour of Israel with the Israel Philharmonic under Mehta performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto. Bruch and Tchaikovsky on tour in Australia with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Jurowski. Beethoven Concerto with the Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona. Concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra in New York, Cologne and Paris performing the two Prokofiev Concertos. Festival appearances include Tanglewood, Dubrovnik and Menton, and Verbier with Lang Lang and Mischa Maisky. His recording of Brahms’s Violin and Double Concertos (with cellist Truls Mørk and Riccardo Chailly conducting the Gewandhausorchester) is released at the beginning of the year and supported by an extensive tour of Europe, Japan and the USA during which he performs these works with various orchestras; autumn release of Piano Trios by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov with Lang Lang and Mischa Maisky |
2010 | World premiere of James McMillan’s Violin Concerto in May with Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican (further performances of the new work by Repin scheduled for 2011); other concert appearances include Gubaidulina’s Offertorium with the Berliner Philharmoniker (Eivind Gullberg Jensen); the Beethoven Concerto with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw (Temirkanov), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Nagano), New York Philharmonic (Muti) and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (de Waart); the Brahms Concerto on Japan tour with Thielemann and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, and in Belgium and France; the Sibelius Concerto in London and Dublin with the Philharmonia (Ashkenazy); as well as Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole and the Glazunov, Saint-Saëns Third and Prokofiev Second concertos in numerous concerts in Europe and South Korea; recitals in Tokyo, Athens, Dresden, Geneva and France |
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