17-01-2017

Vadim Repin received the Lakshminarayana International Award in January 2017  

The Lakshminarayana International Award was instituted in the year 1997 by the Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival. It is awarded to individuals who have made momentous contributions to their respective artistic domains. Each awardee is a legend in his/her own right.

The first award in 1997 was given to Lord Yehudi Menuhin, and was presented to him by the President of India His Excellency K.R. Narayanan. Subsequently, the award has been presented to eminent artists, creative geniuses and living legends.

The award carries with it a specially commissioned unique Tanjore painting of Lord Ganesha playing the violin (as a tribute to Professor V. Lakshminarayana). Lord Ganesha in the Hindu pantheon is the first God one prays to, in order to remove obstacles. Tanjore painting is a specialized art form from the Tanjore region of Tamil Nadu. This form of painting incorporates gold leaf work and semi-precious gems. Each painting is a specially commissioned work of art.

6-10-2016

NEW MacMillan  CD 

ONYX Classics have just released a CD of 2 works by James MacMillan:

Violin Concerto performed by Vadim Repin, and Symphony No 4, with the BBCSO conducted by Donald Runnicles

Buy the CD on line  here

James MacMillan's violin concerto had its premiere in London Barbican Centre on the 12th of May 2010.

 The concerto was written in memory of MacMillan’s late mother and dedicated to Vadim Repin who premiered the concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev.

The violin concerto was co-commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Zaterdag Matinee in Amsterdam, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.

Watch an excerpt of the MacMillan VC with Vadim Repin at the Proms in 2013  here

23-02-2016

A live Philharmonia Orchestra concert screening of the 1927 silent film Love, featuring the world premiere of a new score.

The Philharmonia Orchestra provides live accompaniment to a screening of Love, featuring virtuoso violinist Vadim Repin and conducted by Frank Strobel.

Aphrodite Raickopoulou has written a new score for this classic silent film, which is based on Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. The score was written especially for the renowned violinist Vadim Repin, whom Yehudi Menuhin described as 'the best violinist I have ever heard'.

Made in 1927 by director Edmund Goulding, Love starred the most celebrated screen couple of the era: Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. The New York Times motion picture critic Mordaunt Hall described Greta Garbo, in this role, as 'a blonde Mona Lisa' and wrote that she 'outshines any other performance she has given to the screen'.

In 2012, Aphrodite Raickopoulou's score for Faustwas premiered in Royal Festival Hall by Carmen Zgouras Special Entertainment.

'Raickopoulou's music mirrored the film's fantastical qualities with intensely-coloured string passages and some Wagner-esque brass... [her] sweepingly symphonic writing amplified the dramatic turbulence of Murnau's movie with a passion that would surely have impressed the director himself.' (The Arts Desk on Faust)

A Carmen Zgouras Special Entertainment Production.

Love starring Vadim Repin and Greta Garbo is dedicated to Mrs Alfiya Kuanysheva for her special contribution to the Arts.

Carmen Zgouras is proud to announce this concert will launch the 2016 UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature, as it is based on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

Watch Interview here

16-11-2013

Vadim Repin Festival in Novosibirsk
31 March- 12 April 2014
Programme 
 Artistic director Vadim Repin
In memory of Arnold Katz Mikhailovich
The festival is held with the support of the Governor and Government of the Novosibirsk region

March 31 (Monday) , 19:00
National Concert Hall. Arnold Katz
Opening of the Festival
Conductor Kent Nagano
Vadim Repin , violin
Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra
Lalo . " Spanish Symphony " for violin and orchestra
Berlioz . " Symphonie Fantastique "

April 2 (Wednesday) , 18:00
The Palace of Culture "Homeland" , Berdsk
chamber concert
Vadim Repin , violin
Andrew Korobeynikov , piano
«Filarmonica»- quartet
Mendelssohn . String quartet number 2
Bartok . Quintet for Piano and String Quartet

April 3 (Thursday) , 19:00
National Concert Hall. Arnold Katz
Symphony Concert
Conductors: Benjamin Yusupov, Gintaras Rinkevicius
Vadim Repin , violin
Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra
The program includes:
Yusupov . "Voice of the violin ," Concerto № 2 for Violin and Orchestra
( World Premiere . Concert is dedicated to Vadim Repin )
Dvorak . Symphony number 9, " From the New World "

April 4 (Friday) , 18:00
House of Culture "Youth" , Iskitim
Conductor Vladimir Jankowski
Vadim Repin , violin
Mario Brunello , cello
Andrew Korobeynikov , piano
Ilya Tarasenko , viola
Students Novosibirsk Special Music School ( college )
Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Novosibirsk Special Music School ( college )
Beethoven . Overture "Egmont"
IS Bach . Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra
Saint-Saens . Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky . " Souvenir de Florence " String Sextet

April 5 (Saturday) , 17:00
National Concert Hall. Arnold Katz
Concert- action " Children - children"
in conjunction with the charity fund Natalia Vodianova " Naked Heart "
Conductor Vladimir Jankowski
Vadim Repin , violin
Mario Brunello , cello
Andrew Korobeynikov , piano
Ilya Tarasenko , viola
Students Novosibirsk Special Music School ( college )
Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Novosibirsk Special Music School ( college )
Beethoven . Overture "Egmont"
JS Bach . Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra
Saint-Saens . Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra
Beethoven . Symphony number 4 , part 1
Tchaikovsky . " Souvenir de Florence " String Sextet

April 6 (Sunday) , 19:00
National Concert Hall. Arnold Katz
Conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius
Nikolai Lugansky , piano
Mario Brunello , cello
English Chamber Orchestra
Chopin . Concerto № 2 for piano and orchestra
Schumann . Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Beethoven . Symphony number 2

April 7 (Monday) , 19:00
National Concert Hall. Arnold Katz
Conductor Alexander Sladkovsky
Soloist Olga Borodina, mezzo -soprano
Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra
Mussorgsky . "Night on Bald Mountain" , a symphonic fantasy
Mussorgsky . "Songs and Dances of Death ", a song cycle
Tchaikovsky . Symphony number 4

April 7 (Monday) , 19:00
Concert Hall of the House of Scientists of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius
Vadim Repin , violin
Mario Brunello , cello
English Chamber Orchestra
Prokofiev . Concerto № 2 for Violin and Orchestra
Schumann . Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Beethoven . Symphony number 2

April 9 (Wednesday) , 19:00
National Concert Hall. Arnold Katz
" Skripkomaniya "
Vadim Repin , violin
Didier Lockwood , violin
Aleksey Igudesman , violin
Michael Guttman , violin
Rusanda Panfilo , violin
Andrei Pushkarev , percussion
Andrei Romanov , accordion
Andrew Kugaevsky , domra
Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra
Students Novosibirsk Special Music School ( college )
Unique and extraordinary improvisation

April 10 (Thursday) , 19:00
National Concert Hall. Arnold Katz
" Zakharov- Repin " Gala
Svetlana Zakharova , ballet
Vadim Repin , violin
The ensemble of soloists "Novosibirsk Camerata "

April 12 (Saturday) , 19:00
National Concert Hall. Arnold Katz
The final concert
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Soloist Vadim Repin , violin
Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich . Concerto № 1 for violin and orchestra
Tchaikovsky . Symphony number 5

9-06-2013

Vadim Repin performed Krennikov VC1 with Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, on the occasion of Tikhon Krennikov 100th Anniversary concert.

«Московские окна», «Колыбельная Светланы», «Что так сердце растревожено»… Эти песни помнят и поют, порой забывая, что их автор – Тихон Николаевич Хренников. Сегодня исполняется 100 лет со дня рождения выдающегося композитора. Памяти мастера три масштабных концерта дал маэстро Валерий Гергиев. Первый – в Петербурге. Второй – на родине Хренникова, в Ельце. Вечер в столичном зале Чайковского стал кульминацией этого музыкального приношения. Рассказывают «Новости культуры».

Ради этого вечера в зале Чайковского Вадим Репин вспомнил юношеский скрипичный концерт Тихона Хренникова, который не играл много лет.

Когда-то, очень давно, юного Вадима Репина Тихон Хренников вывел за руку на сцену Большого зала консерватории. Это стало началом теплых до родственности дружеских отношений.

«Вспоминаю те годы, когда часто вместе путешествовали во многие города, общались, – говорит Вадим Репин. – Этот концерт – часть меня, в каком-то смысле. Мне уже не 16 лет, но удовольствие огромнейшее».

13-05-2013

Vadim Repin will organize an international Music Festival in his native city of Novosibirsk, starting in April 2014.
See newspaper article here

1-10-2012

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 75 Years Anniversary Concert & Documentary Coming Home

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The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - a cultural icon of Israel and one of the greatest classical ensembles in the world - celebrated its 75th Birthday on December 26th, 2011 together with three outstanding soloists of the younger generation Julian Rachlin, Evgeny Kissin and Vadim Repin. The concert took place in the spectacular Hangar 11 at the harbor in Tel Aviv. Zubin Mehta conducted a spectacular programme of Saint-Saëns, Bach, Chopin, Chausson and Beethoven.

The film Coming Home by János Darvas portrays the orchestra and tells of its moving history, which is both a reflection of the history of Israel and the fate of the Jews in the 20th Century. With texts from memoirs, with material from radio interviews, home movies and photos from the orchestras archives, as well as from private collections, the film will not only tells the story of the orchestra, but draws parallels to the fates of many individuals. Historical footage brings the 75-year history of the orchestra to life in concerts with Arturo Toscanini, Arthur Rubinstein, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak Perlman. Interviews with orchestra members from the early years weave through talks with musicians that joined later, and with current orchestra members. Moreover, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman and Pinkas Zukerman have their say. We also get the opportunity to watch the Israel Philharmonic in rehearsals, concerts and tours.