Vadim Repin

“Vadim Repin is simply the best and most perfect violinist I have ever heard.”
Yehudi Menuhin

Vadim Repin was born in 1971 in Novosibirsk. He first picked up a violin at the age of five, and within six months he was on stage. His mentor was Zakhar Bron, under whose guidance Vadim won the gold medal at the International Wieniawski Competition (1982), after which he had concert debuts in Moscow and Leningrad.

At 14, he performed in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, and Helsinki, and a year later he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 1989, Vadim attracted significant international attention when he became the youngest winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Twenty years later, he became the chairman of the jury for this competition.

Vadim Repin has performed concerts and chamber music at leading concert venues around the world. His partners have included Martha Argerich, Cecilia Bartoli, Mikhail Pletnev, Evgeny Kissin, Mischa Maisky, Lang Lang, and Itamar Golan.

He has played with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian State Opera, the Berlin, London, Vienna, Radio France, Munich, Rotterdam, Israel, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Montreal, Cleveland Symphony Orchestras, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, the Orchestre de Paris, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the National Philharmonic of Russia, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, the State Symphony Orchestra “New Russia”, the Novosibirsk Philharmonic, and many others.

In these cases, he has worked with renowned conductors such as V. Ashkenazy, P. Boulez, S. Bychkov, D. Gatti, C. Dutoit, A. Katz, J. Conlon, J. Levine, K. Masur, Z. Mehta, Y. Menuhin, R. Muti, K. Nagano, S. Rattle, E. Salonen, M. Rostropovich, M. Chung, R. Shalyapin, V. and D. Jurowski, M. Jansons, N. and P. Järvi, among others. He has been entrusted with the premieres of works by J. Adams, S. Gubaidulina, J. McMillan, B. Yusupov, and L. Auerbach.

Many of his over 30 compact discs have received awards such as ECHO Klassik, Diapason d’Or, Prix Caecilia, and Edison Award, while the recording of the Carte blanche program with Robi Lakatos at the Louvre was chosen as the best live recording of chamber music.

• In April 2014, Vadim Repin, as artistic director, presented the first Trans-Siberian Arts Festival in his hometown of Novosibirsk. The festival was received with enthusiasm and became annual, with some concert programs in other countries such as Israel, Japan, and others.

Vadim Repin is a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor and a laureate of the prestigious French Victoire de la Musique award.

Official website: vadimrepin.com