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BIOGRAPHY

VADIM REPIN

... was born in Siberia in 1971 and won all categories of the Wienawski competition at the age of eleven. His debuts in Moscow and St. Petersburg followed immediately, and at the age of 14 he made his debut in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin and Helsinki and one year later at Carnegie Hall in New York. At 17 he was the youngest ever winner of the Reine Elisabeth Concours. Since then he has performed with the world's most important orchestras and conductors and in all the major music centres. The list of his stage partners includes illustrious conductors such as Ashkenazy, Boulez, Chailly, Chung, Dohnányi, Dutoit, Gergiev, Jansons, Levine, Mehta, Muti, Nagano, Ozawa, Temirkanov and Thielemann, and chamber musician partners such as Argerich, Bartoli, Capuçon, Golan, Kissin, Knyazev, Korobeinikov, Lang Lang, Lugansky and Maisky.

Vadim Repin recorded the great Russian violin concertos by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky for Warner Classics; the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Kreutzer Sonata with Martha Argerich with the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti for Deutsche Grammophon, and the Brahms Violin Concerto and Double Concerto (with Truls Mørk, cello) with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly. DG's trios of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov with Mischa Maisky and Lang Lang won the Echo Prize, and a CD of sonatas by Grieg, Janacek and César Franck with Nikolai Lugansky won the BBC Music Award. In 2010 he was awarded the highest French distinction, the Victoire d'Honneur and the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres for his services to music. In Beijing he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Central Conservatory of Music in 2014, a year later at the Shanghai Conservatory. Music education plays an important role in Vadim Repin’s life – and he has given master classes for young violinists at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, and been on the jury of the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London, Tchaikovsky Competition Moscow and the Brussels Concours Reine Elisabeth.

In April 2014 he became founder and Artistic Director of the annual Transsiberian Arts Festival, which continues to be enthusiastically received in Novosibirsk and many Russian cities as well as in Japan, Israel, Vienna, the USA and France, and has been the venue of world premieres of the violin concerti dedicated to him: "Voices of Violin" by Benjamin Yussupov,"De Profundis" by Lera Auerbach, Alexander Raskatov’s “Ex Oriente Lux”, Ilya Demutsky’s Violin Concerto, "Dialogue: You and I" by Sofia Gubaidulina (recorded for Deutsche Grammophon with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig under Andris Nelsons). Most recently Vadim Repin premiered Arvo Pärt’s revised version of “La Sindone” to which the composer, marking his 85th year, added a solo violin part for Vadim Repin. On a European tour with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, he played the world première and numerous performances of the double concerto "Shadow Walker" by Mark-Anthony Turnage, together with Daniel Hope.

Recent highlights are performances of the programme "Pas de Deux" together with internationally renowned ballerina Svetlana Zakharova in Hong Kong, Muscat, Japan and Korea, and concerts at the Enescu Festival Bucharest, in Verbier and at the Montreal Festival, with the RAI Torino Orchestra, Orquesta de Valencia, the Japan Philharmonic concerts with orchestra in Abu Dhabi, Poland, Italy and France, and recitals in Seoul and Rome.

Vadim Repin plays a violin by Niccolo Amati dated 1664.

March 2023

DISCOGRAPHY

Violin Sonatas

Leoš Janáček Sonata for Violin and Piano

Edvard Grieg Sonata for Violin and Piano No 2 in G major op 13

César Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major

Vadim Repin, violin

Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Recording:  Teldex Studios, Berlin, July 2010

Deutsche Grammophon

00289 477 8794 (2010)

Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov Piano Trios

Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No 1 in g minor

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in a minor

Lang Lang, piano

Vadim Repin, violin

Mischa Maisky, cello

Recording:  Theater Itzehoe, August 2009

Deutsche Grammophon

00289 477 8099 (2009)

Brahms

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op 77

Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, op 102

Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly

Vadim Repin, violin

Truls Mørk, cello

Recording: Gewandhaus Leipzig, August 2008

Deutsche Grammophon

00289 477 7470 (2008)

Bruch

Violin Concerto No 1

Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle

DVD recorded live at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire Moscow 1 May 2008

Medici Arts

GLN 4260051250021

CALENDAR

PRESS

in Berlin

Seine Mitteilung ist die reine Musik. Der Geiger Vadim Repin aus Nowosibirsk gehört zu den Glücksfällen der russischen Oistrach-Nachfolge, und wenn er das Violinkonzert von Beethoven spielt, steht die Kommunikation mit dem Orchester obenan. Die Interpretation ist ganz Klassik, Beethoven als genuiner Instrumentalkomponist, selbst wo Repins Violine singt. Mit subtiler Höhe und feinster Gliederung leuchtet seine Interpretation von innen, weil dieser Musiker den seltenen Typ des glanzvoll dienenden Virtuosen vertritt. Er hat keine dynamischen Manierismen nötig. Auch als der Beifall brandet, will der Ernst aus seinem Gesicht nicht weichen.

in New York

It was not a robotic cadenza, but a work of personal energy, emotion, vying with the large orchestra, exploding with rhythmic sforzandi. We were breathless, Mr. Repin seemed perfectly cool. More than a tour de force, this was a celebration of violin playing itself.

in Luxembourg

La sonorité qu’il donne à son violon est magistrale. C’est clair, chaud et cela touche profondément. Les vibratos sont placés juste là où il faut, ni trop, ni trop peu. C’est varié, brillant, idéal. C’est de la grande musique.

in London

Repin’s and Lugansky’s subtlety of expression is a major factor in making this so outstanding, so ravishing and so spine-tingling. Both musicians give of their utmost and, when the musicians in question are Repin and Lugansky, that makes for something exceptional.

in Munich

Repin brillierte mit dem Ensemble nicht nur bei Mendelssohn, sondern auch im dritten Violinkonzert von Mozart, G-Dur, KV 216. Dort hatte man die Wahl, den himmlischen Klang seiner Guarneri del Gesù von 1736 zu bewundern, seine Sensibilität oder seine Virtuosität bei Mozarts Überraschungen im launischen Rondeau.

in Osaka

Repin spielt mit substanzreichem Ton, brilliert mit der höllisch ausufernden Heifetz-Kadenz und gibt im langsamen Satz den süßstofffreien Erzähler.

VIOLINS

Currently Niccolo Amati 1664

2015-2022

Stradivari 1733 'Rode'

2013-2015

Guarneri del Gesù 'Lafont'

2010-2013

Guarneri del Gesù 1743 “Bonjour”

2002-2009

Guarneri del Gesù 1736 "von Szerdahely"

2005

Guarneri del Gesù 1742 “Il Cannone ex Paganini” on loan from the Municipal Palace of Genoa for a recital in the city

1996-2005

Stradivari 1708 "Ruby" on loan from the Stradivarius Society of Chicago

1996

Guarneri del Gesù 1737 "Isaac Stern ex-Panette", a three month loan from David Fulton for a recording of the Ravel & Medtner violin sonatas

1984-1989

Stradivari 1720 "ex-Wieniawski" on loan from the Russian State collection

1982-1984

a unique Stradivari three-quarter size violin on loan from the Russian State collection

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