Vadim Repin

Zakhar Bron's Novosibirsk classroom took Vadim Repin at five, and he gave his first recital soon after; at eleven he took the gold medal of the Wieniawski competition, and at seventeen became the youngest winner of the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels. Born in 1971, he has since played with most of the major orchestras of Europe, America and Asia, under Gergiev, Muti, Chailly, Rattle, Temirkanov and Dutoit, and has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Erato and Warner Classics. He founded the Trans-Siberian Art Festival and remains its artistic director, bringing an international season to the city where he was trained. Since 2015 he has played the 1733 "Rode" Stradivari. He was fourteen when he first played in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin and Helsinki and fifteen at his Carnegie Hall debut, and the Tibor Varga competition gave him its first prize the following year. He gave the first performance of James MacMillan's First Violin Concerto, written for him, in 2010, and with Daniel Hope the premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's double concerto Shadow Walker in 2017; Lera Auerbach, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alexander Raskatov have written for him or for his festival. France made him a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2010, and he teaches master classes at the Salzburg Mozarteum and is professor emeritus of the conservatories in Beijing and Shanghai.