All Patricia Kopatchinskaja articles
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BlogsViolinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja on the shadow world of Shostakovich
US correspondent Thomas May speaks with Patricia Kopatchinskaja about playing Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 on her current tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner, which culminates in her long-overdue Carnegie Hall debut.
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ReviewFestival round-up: BBC Proms 2024
Peter Quantrill takes in some of the string highlights at the Royal Albert Hall from this year’s BBC Proms
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GalleryPhoto gallery: Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s ‘Everyday Non-sense’ at the Southbank Centre
The violinist and the Aurora Orchestra presented a performance of virtuosity, spontaneity and spectacle at the Purcell Room on 24 April
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ReviewConcert review: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) Reto Bieri (clarinet) Polina Leschenko (piano)
Edward Bhesania hears the performance of Enescu, Poulenc, Bartok, Milhaud, Schoenfeld and Kopatchinskaja herself, at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on 24 September 2023
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Video‘Pas de deux’: a 2014 recital with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta
The violinist and cellist performed together as part of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja, Camerata Bern: Maria Mater Meretrix
A magnificent voyage of discovery from a musical maverick
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NewsViolinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Randall Goosby announced as Southbank Centre’s artists in residence
The Southbank Centre has released details of its new artists and season for 2023/24
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ReviewConcert review: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) Joonas Ahonen (piano)
Peter Quantrill visits London’s Milton Court Concert Hall on 17 February 2023 for a performance of Schoenberg, Webern and Beethoven
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FocusThe Strad Podcast #75: Patricia Kopatchinskaja on Brahms, Bartók and Janáček
The violinist speaks about doing justice to the composers’ wishes, as well as keeping the repertoire fresh and spontaneous
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja: Bartók, Brahms, Janáček
Two musical mavericks breathe fresh life into much-loved sonatas
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ReviewSol Gabetta, Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Sol & Pat
Two old friends are even more than the sum of their parts
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ReviewConcert review: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) Berlin Philharmonic/Kirill Petrenko
Carlos Maria Solare attends the performance at the Berlin Philharmonie on 17 September 2021, kicking off the Moldovan violinist’s tenure as the orchestra’s artist-in-residence
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ReviewReview round-up: Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe
David Kettle samples the best of the Scottish festivals’ strings-based programmes in August 2021, imaginatively refreshed and distilled for post-pandemic times
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VideoPatricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta perform Ravel
Fasten your seatbelts for Ravel’s Sonata for violin and cello, fourth movement
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Camerata Bern/Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Peter Quantrill views the performance at Reitschule Bern, Switzerland, 27 March 2021
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja: Pierrot lunaire
Not just a violinist – PatKop’s singing alter ego is extraordinary
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta: Plaisirs Illuminés
Breathtaking vividness and attention to detail illuminate this collection
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Focus‘Now I am completely mad’ - Patricia Kopatchinskaja on playing Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
For violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja a bout of tendonitis was the perfect opportunity to widen her musical perspective by taking on the title role in Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, as she tells Toby Deller
