Vadim Repin

Instrumentalists — Violin

Manager: R. Douglas Sheldon, Jean-Jacques Cesbron
Additional Management: Denise A. Pineau
Management Territory: North America

"...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 – and there were some startlingly eloquent passages in the center of the first movement of the Violin Concerto (Brahms) that approached greatness. The inventive, quote-laden cadenza came from one of those Russians, Jascha Heifetz; the second movement sang soulfully yet without schmaltz; and Repin was aware of the value of surprise with some splendid thrusts in the finale..." —Los Angeles Times - August, 2009

". . . his finest playing on disc to date. His tone has always been sumptuous, but, taking his cue from Henrik Wahlgrens serene oboe solo in the adagio, he has never sounded more expressive. This is raptly beautiful playing and the Leipzigers rise to the no less important orchestral parts. In the outer movements, and the Double Concerto, with Truls Mørk´s eloquent cello, Chailly brings symphonic rigour and high drama to Brahms´s scores. It is hard to think of recent recordings of these great works that match the splendour of sound and musical insight here. Superb." —The Sunday Times, London - January, 2009

“The solemnity of Vadim Repin's stance on the platform belies the warmly communicative, profoundly expressive interpretations that have become a trademark of one of today's most compelling musicians." —The Daily Telegraph, London -2007

About

Music is Russian violinist Vadim Repin’s mother tongue. He is a virtuoso of many voices, and his astonishing ability to draw a rich palette of sound from his instrument, together with his dazzling technique, has enthralled audiences around the globe. Fiery passion with impeccable technique, poetry and sensitivity are Repin’s trademarks.

Born in Siberia in 1971, Mr. Repin began playing the violin at the age of five. Six months later he had his first stage performance. At only eleven Vadim won the gold medal in . . . all age categories in the Wienawski Competition and gave his recital debuts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1985, at the age of fourteen, he made his debuts in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, Helsinki; a year later he debuted at Carnegie Hall. In 1987 Mr. Repin became the youngest ever winner of the most prestigious and demanding violin competition in the world, the Reine Elisabeth Concours.

Mr. Repin has performed with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Hamburg, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia, Royal Concertgebouw, San Francisco Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and La Scala, working with leading conductors such as Ashkenazy, Boulez, Bychkov, Chailly, Chung, Conlon, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Fedoseyev, Gatti, Gergiev, Jansons, Neeme and Paavo Järvi, Krivine, Levine, Luisi, Marriner, Masur, Mehta, Muti, Nagano, Rattle, Rozhdestvensky, Temirkanov and Zinman.

Mr. Repin’s 2010-11 season includes engagements with the symphonies of Seattle, Chicago, and Cincinnati. He will give the North American premiere of MacMillan’s Violin Concerto with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Philadelphia and at Carnegie Hall in March 2011.

Mr. Repin has been a frequent guest at festivals such as Tanglewood, Ravinia, Rheingau, Gstaad, Verbier and the BBC Proms. Summer 2009 featured Mr. Repin in his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto conducted by Leonard Slatkin, as well as an appearance at Tanglewood with the Beethoven Violin Concerto under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. The 2009-10 season brought Vadim to orchestral engagements in North America with the National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Montreal Symphony, and Milwaukee Symphony, as well as three tours of Asia and the Pacific: Japan with the Malaysian Philharmonic under Claus Peter Flor; Australia with the London Philharmonic under Vladimir Jurowski; and back to Japan again with the Munich Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann.

Mr. Repin regularly collaborates with Nikolai Lugansky and Itamar Golan in recital, and his 2008-2009 season was marked by some twenty-five recitals, commencing with the Salzburg Festival and continuing in cities such as Vienna, Geneva, London, Brussels, Paris, Luxembourg, Milan, New York, Washington and Tokyo. Other highlights from that season included tours with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev--with visits to Italy, Germany, the United States and Japan; and collaborations with Christian Thielemann, Gustavo Dudamel and Jonathan Nott.

In January 2008, Vadim Repin performed Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in Beijing under Ozawa to mark the opening of the new National Performing Arts Center. In May 2008, he performed the Bruch Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle in Moscow on the occasion of Europe Day – a concert broadcast live throughout Europe. Later that month he performed in Tel Aviv, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel with the Israel Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti.

Vadim Repin’s prize-winning recordings include the great Russian violin concerti by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky on Warner Classics. His first recording on the Deutsche Grammophon label features the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti, coupled with Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata with Martha Argerich, which received critical acclaim. Mr. Repin plays on the 1743 Bonjour violin by Guarneri del Gesù.