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Concert Leonidas Kavakos (violin) and the Mariinsky Orchestra
World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - Mariinsky II (New Theatre)


Schedule for Leonidas Kavakos (violin) and the Mariinsky Orchestra 2022

Violin soloist: Leonidas Kavakos

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

Leonidas Kavakos is recognised across the world as a violinist and artist of rare quality, known at the highest level for his virtuosity, superb musicianship and the integrity of his playing. Born in Athens into a musical family, Kavakos’s first steps as a violinist were guided by his parents. He studied at the Hellenic Conservatory with Stelios Kafantaris, one of the three important mentors in his life, together with Josef Gingold and Ferenc Rados.

With three competitions to his name before the age of 21, he won the Sibelius Competition in 1985, and the Paganini and Naumburg competitions in 1988. These successes led to his recording the original Sibelius Violin Concerto (1903/4) for the first time in history, recognised with a Gramophone Award; and to the honour of performing on the famous ‘Il Cannone’ Guarneri del Gesù, which belonged to Paganini.

Kavakos’s international career has allowed him to develop close relationships with the world’s major orchestras and conductors, such as the Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle, Royal Concertgebouw/Jansons, London Symphony Orchestra/Gergiev and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Chailly. In the 2012/13 season he had residencies with the London Symphony Orchestra and Berliner Philharmoniker, and he performed with the Concertgebouw and Mariss Jansons on its Jubilee tour, with a piece originally premiered by the orchestra, Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.2. In the 2013/14 season, Kavakos makes his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic/Chailly. In the USA, he performs regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras.

Kavakos has always retained strong links with his native Greece. For 15 years he curated a chamber music cycle at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) which featured his musical friends, including Mstislav Rostropovich, Heinrich Schiff, Emanuel Ax, Nikolai Lugansky, Yuja Wang and Gautier Capuçon.

In his burgeoning career as a conductor he has worked with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and the Vienna Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras. In the USA, he has conducted the Boston, Atlanta and Saint Louis symphony orchestras. This season conducting highlights include return engagements with the Boston Symphony, Budapest Festival, Gothenburg Symphony and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestras, as well as important conducting debuts with the LSO and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Since 2012, Leonidas Kavakos has been an exclusive Decca Classics recording artist. His first release on the label, the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Enrico Pace, resulted in the award of ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ at the 2013 ECHO Klassik Awards. The whole Beethoven cycle with Pace is presented in the 2013/14 season at New York’s Carnegie Hall, as well as in the Far East.

Kavakos’s second disc with Decca Classics, released in October 2013, is of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Riccardo Chailly and a third disc, of Brahms Violin Sonatas with pianist Yuja Wang, will be released in spring 2014. During this season and next, Kavakos and Wang will give a series of Brahms recitals in major European cities.

Following the Sibelius and other early recordings for Dynamic, BIS and ECM, Kavakos recorded for Sony Classical, including live recordings of Mozart’s five Violin Concertos and Symphony No.39 with Camerata Salzburg and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, for which, in 2009, he received an ECHO Klassik ‘Best Concerto Recording’ award.

For the past two years Kavakos has curated an annual violin and chamber-music masterclass in Athens, attracting violinists and ensembles from all over the world and reflecting his deep commitment to the handing on of musical knowledge and traditions.

Leonidas Kavakos is passionate about the art of violin and bow making, both in the past and now, in the present. Kavakos considers instrument making to be a great mystery and, to our day, an undisclosed secret. He plays the “Abergavenny” Stradivarius violin of 1724 and owns modern violins made by F. Leonhard, S.P. Greiner, E. Haahti and D. Bague. Bows by F.X. Tourte, D. Peccatte, J.P.M. Persois and J. Henry are his most precious companions.





Schedule for Leonidas Kavakos (violin) and the Mariinsky Orchestra 2022


Leonidas Kavakos Plays Sibelius 1/4 : Violin Concerto
 
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Valery Gergiev/Leonidas Kavakos/Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
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