Born in Siberia in 1971, Vadim Repin was 11 when he won the gold medal in all age categories in the Wienawski Competition and gave his recital debuts in Moscow and St Petersburg. At 14 he made his debuts in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, Helsinki; a year later in Carnegie Hall. At 17 he was the youngest ever winner of the Reine Elisabeth Concours.
Since then he has performed with all the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors.
Vadim Repin recorded the great Russian violin concerti by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky on Warner Classics.
For Deutsche Grammophon he recorded the Beethoven Violin Concerto, the Brahms Violin Concerto and Double Concerto (Truls Mørk, cello) with the Gewandhaus Orchester, the Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov trios with Mischa Maisky and Lang Lang (which won the Echo Classic) and works by Grieg, Janacek and César Franck with Nikolai Lugansky, which won the 2011 BBC Music Award.
Pianist: Andrei Korobeinikov
Andrei Korobeinikov is a one-of-a-kind pianist, with a unique and singular touch which combines power and technical mastery with an outstanding boldness and sensibility.
Upon winning more than 20 international prizes, Andrei Korobeinikov was awarded the First Prize of the Scriabine International Piano Competition in 2004, and a year later, the Second & Audience Prize at Los Angeles’ Rachmaninoff Competition. A typical artist, he offers personal programmes in which poetry and literature meet music.
Highlights of 2017/2018 include recitals in Munich, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, and chamber music concerts with in particular in Belgium with Johannes Moser & Dmitri Makhtin, in Vienna with Andrej Vesel and a duo recital tour with Vadim Repin in France, Russia, China and Japan.
Program:
Debussy - Sonata for Violin & Piano
Prokofiev - Sonata No. 2
- Intermission -
Prokofiev - Five Mélodies, Op. 35
Grieg - Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 45
Tchaikovsky - Lensky's Aria from Eugene Onegin and Valse Scherzo