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ArticleLeonidas Kavakos performs Brahms's Violin Concerto in 2017
Leonidas Kavakos performs Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi in celebration of his Léonie Sonning Music Prize win. The recording was made for Danmarks Radio in January 2017. Worth €100,000, the award is Denmark’s highest musical honour and has been ...
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ArticleViolinist Leonidas Kavakos performs Tárrega encore
Leonidas Kavakos performs Ruggiero Ricci's arrangement of Francisco Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra as an encore. The violinist contributes to The Strad's Encores feature, published in the April 2016 issue - download on desktop computer or through The Strad App.
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NewsViolinist Leonidas Kavakos wins Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2017
Founded in 1959, the award is Denmark’s highest musical honour
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Focus‘I’m exhausted by the time I reach the Sibelius third movement,’ says violinist Leonidas Kavakos
25 years after his pioneering recording, the Greek musician speaks about his relationship with the concerto in The Strad’s January 2016 issue
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ArticleLeonidas Kavakos performs Sibelius Violin Concerto
Leonidas Kavakos performs the third movement of Sibelius's Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in February 2015. Kavakos talks about his ever-deepening relationship with the Sibelius Concerto in The Strad's January 2016 issue - out Friday. Read: Leonidas Kavakos on modern violin ...
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NewsViolinist Leonidas Kavakos sues luthier for snapping $80,000 bow
The artist took his bow to a violin shop in California to investigate the cause of a curvature
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ArticleLeonidas Kavakos
Born into a musical family in Athens, Leonidas Kavakos began playing the violin at the age of five, later enrolling in the Hellenic Conservatory where he studied with Stelios Kafantaris. The winner of several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius, Paganini and Indianopolis, he has performed with ...
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