Patricia Kopatchinskaja was born in the wine-growing country of Moldova that lies between Romania and the Ukraine. Both of her parents were musicians, she studied the violin in Vienna and Berlin and was the winner of the 2000 Henryk Szering Competition in Mexico and received the International Credit Suisse Group Young Artist Award in 2002. In 2004, she won the New Talent – SPP Award of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk in 2006. Her recent tour as a guest conductor and soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra was declared to be the best chamber music production 2007 by readers of the Australian Limelight Magazine, and a renewed invitation was extended to her without delay.

As a soloist, Patricia Kopatchinskaja has performed with the Vienna Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and the American Symphony Orchestra, among others, and with conductors such as A. Boreyka, M. Jansons, R. Goodman and K. Petrenko. She has played at New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center, the Musikverein Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and London’s Wigmore Hall, and followed invitations to numerous distinguished festivals. Since 2003, Patricia Kopatchinskaja organizes the chamber music festival “Rüttihubeliade” in Emmental, Belgium. She pursues an intensive discourse with contemporary music and has given premiere performances of pieces by J. Doderer, O. Zykan and G. Resch, to name a few. Among her numerous CD recordings are also works of J. Doderer, D. Smirnov and N. Korndorf. A new CD, released on NAÏVE, features a recital with Fazil Sav. Celebrated as a sensation by critics, the recording won the Excellentia Award of the music magazine Pizzicato (Luxembourg).