Violin Concertos

"Simply the best, the most perfect violinist I have ever heard" (Yehudi Menuhin)

After winning the most prestigious and demanding violin competition in the world, the Reine Elisabeth Concours at the age of seventeen, Vadim Repin, now twenty-six, is recognised as the foremost young violinist to have emerged from Russia since the days of Heifetz, Milstein and David Oistrach.

Born in Novosibirsk, where he studied with Professor Zakhar Bron, Repin was only eleven when he won the first prize in the Wieniawski International Competition. His first performance with an orchestra was at the age of seven; at eleven he gave a recital in St. Petersburg.

His international solo career spans performances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic and the Hallé Orchestras. He has also appeared with the Tonhalle Zürich, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, the NHK of Japan, the Kirov Orchestra and the Berlin Sinfonie-Orchester. He made his debut with the Chicago Symphony under Semyon Bychkov and performed with the Montreal Symphony under Charles Dutoit. Other conductors with whom he has worked include Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Ricardo Chailly, Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons, Emmanuel Krivine, James Levine, Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menuhin, Kent Nagano, Georges Prêtre, Gennadij Roshestvensky and Yuri Temiirkanov.