{"id":17247,"date":"2022-07-05T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T11:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=168533"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:00:08","slug":"who-is-patricia-kopatchinskaja","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/who-is-patricia-kopatchinskaja\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Patricia Kopatchinskaja?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Hannah Nepilova\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 05 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Who is Patricia Kopatchinskaja?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Patricia Kopatchinskaja<\/a><\/strong> is an Austrian-Moldovian-Swiss violinist who, in another existence, could have been a comedian<\/a><\/strong> or a heavy metal star.\u00a0 A marmite musician \u2013 you either love or hate her \u2013 she plays barefoot and headbangs her way through performances, flouting musical convention with an impish sense of humour.\u00a0 Not everybody is sold on her dynamically extreme, one-of-a-kind interpretations, or her tendency to prioritise spontaneity and emotional authenticity over surface polish. But authentic she certainly is. She sounds like nobody else.<\/p>\n\n<h2><strong>When and where was <\/strong><strong>Patricia Kopatchinskaja <\/strong><strong>born and how old is she?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>She was born in March 1977 in Chi\u0219in\u0103u, in the\u00a0Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic\u00a0(now\u00a0Moldova).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is her background?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Born in the Soviet era, she spent a lot of her childhood in the Moldovan countryside with her Romanian-speaking grandparents, while her folk musicians parents \u2013\u00a0 her mother was a violinist and her father a cimbalom player \u2013 toured with the State Folk Ensemble of Moldova. Music, she says, forms a huge part of\u00a0 her earliest memories; even as a toddler she was encouraged to make music for guests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did she start playing the<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Patricia Kopatchinskaja<\/strong><strong>?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When she was six years old.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Where did she train?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Initially at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where her family settled when she was 13. At 21 she won a scholarship to study in Bern, Switzerland, where she still lives.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Does she have a family?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Yes, her husband is the retired neurologist, former Swiss politician and amateur cellist Lukas Fierz. They have a 16-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What kind of music does <\/strong><strong>Patricia Kopatchinskaja <\/strong><strong>tend to play?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Although she does play plenty of music by <strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/who-was-the-real-mozart-we-explore-the-man-behind-the-myths\/"\">Mozart<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\""https:\/\/classicalmusic.production.wcp.imdserve.com\/features\/works\/top-20-beethoven-works\/"\">Beethoven<\/a><\/strong> and other greats, often with fairly radical interpretations, she has a particular passion for lesser-known and contemporary music. Over the years she has championed composers including \u00a0<strong><a href=\""https:\/\/classicalmusic.production.wcp.imdserve.com\/features\/articles\/can-you-whistle-schoenberg\/"\">Schoenberg<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\""https:\/\/classicalmusic.production.wcp.imdserve.com\/features\/articles\/introduction-berg\/"\">Berg<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/how-did-anton-webern-die\/"\">Webern<\/a><\/strong>, Ustvolskaya, <strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/guide-ligetis-style\/"\">Ligeti<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0 Kurt\u00e1g, Michael Hersch, Heinz Holliger, Francisco Coll, Mauricio Sotelo and Mart\u00f3n Ill\u00e9s, to name a few. And she has even ventured beyond playing the violin in service of the works she loves. Since 2017, she has performed the voice part of Schoenberg\u2019s <em>Pierrot Lunaire\u00a0<\/em>several times, and in 2018 she teamed up with some friends to make a film based on Kurt Schwitters\u2019s Dadaistic nonsense poem \u2018Ursonate\u2019 written in 1932. The film has been shown at several festivals.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\""Schoenberg:\" pierrot=\"\" lunaire=\"\" with=\"\" patricia=\"\" kopatchinskaja=\"\" width=\""200"\" height=\""113"\" src=\""https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/48WnNgrH57E?feature=oembed"\" frameborder=\""0"\" allow=\""accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<h2><strong>Where can I next hear her?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At the <strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/bbc-proms-2022-full-concert-listings\/"\">BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong> on Tuesday 2 August, when she performs Shostakovich\u2019s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hannah Nepilova Published: Tuesday, 05 July 2022 at 12:00 am Who is Patricia Kopatchinskaja? 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