Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Born in Chișinău in 1977 into a family of musicians, Patricia Kopatchinskaja left Moldova with her parents in the late 1980s to settle in Vienna. She went on to study violin and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and later in Bern, where she now lives. Kopatchinskaja’s career belongs to the field of classical music, blending concerto repertoire, chamber music, contemporary creation and historically informed practice. Her playing fits equally well in programs dedicated to Beethoven, Schumann, Stravinsky or Prokofiev as in works by Ligeti, Peter Eötvös, Francisco Coll, Luca Francesconi or Michael Hersch, several pieces of which were written for or premiered by her. She regularly collaborates with chamber orchestras and ensembles such as Camerata Bern, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Il Giardino Armonico, and she also develops staged formats in which voice, text and spatial staging form part of the interpretation. Her discography includes, among others, Rapsodia (2010), Three Hungarian Violin Concertos (2012), Death and the Maiden (2016), Time and Eternity (2019), What’s Next Vivaldi? (2020) and Le Monde selon George Antheil (2022).