Vadim Repin

Born in 1971 in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Vadim Repin began playing the violin at the age of five and after only six months, made his first public appearance. He studied in his hometown with Zakhar Bron, gave his first performance with orchestra at seven, and at eleven, his St. Petersburg recital debut. At 14, he made his debuts in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, and Helsinki and a year later at Carnegie Hall in New York. His international breakthrough came in 1989 when Repin became the youngest-ever winner of the world’s most prestigious and demanding violin competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Since then, Repin has appeared with the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors, including the Munich Philharmonic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouw Orchestra, London, Baltimore, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the St Petersburg, New York, and Israel Philharmonic. He is also a frequent guest at festivals, such as the Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Rheingau, Verbier, and the BBC Proms. His Carte blanche invitation to the Louvre in Paris resulted in a prize-winning live recording of music performed with colleagues, including the gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos. His chamber-music partners have included Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Evgeny Kissin, Nikolai Lugansky, Mischa Maisky and Mikhail Pletnev. In 2014, Repin founded and was the artistic director of the first Transsiberian Arts Festival in the new concert hall of Novosibirsk, performing world premieres of the violin concertos dedicated to him, Voices of Violin by Benjamin Yussupov, De Profundis by Lera Auerbach and Dialogue: You and I by Sofia Gubaidulina, also commissioned by and dedicated to him. Repin plays the 1733 'Rode' violin by Antonio Stradivari.