With a combination of depth, brilliance and humour, Patricia Kopatchinskaja brings an unmatched theatricality to her performances. Whether in a traditional violin concerto or an original staged project, her distinctive approach always reaches the heart of a work.The violinist has worked worldwide with leading orchestras and conductors and appears regularly at festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, the Ojai Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. She has performed numerous works by living composers, such as Aureliano Cattaneo, Luca Francesconi, Michael Hersch, Márton Illés, György Kurtág und Esa-Pekka Salonen.
A boundary-breaker who enjoys the challenge of musical experiments, Patricia Kopatchinskaja produced the opera production Vergeigt with Herbert Fritsch and Jannis Varelas at Theater Basel in 2023. Other highlights of 2022/23 included residencies at London’s Barbican Centre and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. She was also Artistic Partner of Camerata Bern and continued her collaboration with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with the environmental project Les Adieux.
In 2023/24 she is Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie in Essen. She is also Associate Artist at the SWR Experimentalstudio and curates the festival Golden Decade at the Dresden Philharmonie. Together with Anna Prohaska she presents Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Salzburg Festival.
Her discography comprises more than thirty recordings, among them the Grammy-winning album Death and the Maiden with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Plaisirs illuminés, which was celebrated in BBC Music Magazine, Le monde selon George Antheil with Joonas Ahonen and Maria Mater Meretrix with Anna Prohaska. In 2023 she and Sol Gabetta made a tour of Germany promoting their CD Sol & Pat.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a humanitarian ambassador for terre des hommes and in 2017 was awarded the Swiss Grand Award for Music.
