Violinist Vadim Repin: biography and photos

Humanity knows not so many geeks,whose abilities to active age would not fade away. They are usually full of music, and art, and mathematical schools, but, as they say, "in the finals" come out one. This is Vadim Repin. The Novosibirsk young violinist who conquered the world did not stop in his development, he was not lost among the highest names of musical modernity.

The best violinist

He began rapidly and brilliantly. Six years after he first held a bow over the strings, Vadim Repin won the Wieniawski International Competition in Lublin, receiving a gold medal. Then he was eleven. And at fourteen he already toured the world: Helsinki, Berlin, Munich, Tokyo ...

At fifteen, Vadim played in New York, inCarnegie Hall. At seventeen, he won the International Competition in Brussels - one of the most prestigious. And then he became the youngest winner in the history of this competition. The Queen of Belgium was so touched by his game that he gave him citizenship. Now Vadim Repin can live freely in this country too. Great musician of the twentieth century I. Menukhin called the young violinist the most perfect of all he heard, the best of all living now.

Take-off is not over

Since then, the best orchestras of the world havehonor to play one music with such a virtuoso as Vadim Repin. Performances were held with the Berlin, Boston, Cleveland and Chicago orchestras, with "La Scala" and the Philharmonic Orchestras of New York, Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Now the premiums that Vadim Repin has ever received are no longer counted. Participating in the most famous and prestigious festivals, he almost always took the biggest awards.

Musical festivals in the world are heldvarious. Historical, such as the Salzburg, can not be missed, and everyone understands why. There are still very popular, such as Proms, there to play interesting and useful. And there are such atmospheric, informal, full of communication, as, for example, the Swiss in Verbier, not to visit which means to leave yourself without a sweet. This is the opinion of Vadim Repin. His biography is replenished with new and new facts: how many claims, so many victories.

Concerts

Now he has about a hundred concerts a year at the bestsites of the world. His partners on the stage are always brilliant: Yuri Bashmet, Marta Argerich, Nikolai Lugansky, Mikhail Pletnyov, Boris Berezovsky, Yevgeny Kisin ... It's simply impossible to list all of them. The most important thing is that Vadim Repin, a violinist from God, is still gaining ground, and his take-off is not over. Modern life is accelerating tremendously, and it is difficult to resist this race, but it is necessary.

The musician must be restored after eacha concert that takes a lot of energy and almost all mental powers. Concert plans for professionals such as Vadim Repin - violinist, are made for several years ahead and only in the most exceptional cases change. The reason can be the anniversary of one of the friends-musicians, then one hundred concerts a year are added one more. But Vadim does not have one friend among his colleagues. Yes, and other situations are often folded so that it is absolutely necessary to play additionally. Where does Vadim Repin take strength for such a busy concert schedule?

The state of happiness

When a person is happy, he can also turn mountains. And the reasons for the elevated emotional state are very significant since Vadim Repin and Svetlana Zakharova got married. Daughter (photos of this little happiness will not, parents protect the girl from prying eyes) made the creative energy of the performer simply immense. And, of course, the music itself inspires and gives strength.

Vadim Repin plays only those at his concertscompositions that do not select, but give joy, fuel their power at the expense of pleasure obtained from their performance. For example, he always enthusiastically plays Brahms and himself notes that every note in the works of this composer leads him into ecstasy. Very fond of violinist romantic style in music and many works of such a plan has in the repertoire. And from the new, modern, he included in concert programs a violin concert - an amazing piece written by James Macmillan especially for Vadim Repin.

School of Music

Never in his family did not have a single musician,and suddenly there was a child prodigy - Vadim Repin, a violinist. His biography as a musician began in five years, when on August 31 the kid was brought to music school. He wanted percussion instruments or a button accordion. But it turned out, it was already too late, all the places at these offices were occupied. They gave Vadim a violin in his hands and said that if he did not like it, he would have to come early, but next year.

The violin fell in love with the boy to such an extent thatparents revised their plans for the rest of their lives. Vadim's father was an artist-designer, and my mother was a nurse. Later, the pope earned a living, and my mother gave herself entirely to the talent of his son and his support. She had absolutely no musical education and studied simultaneously with Vadim, listening to him and delving into the very essence. Vadim highly appreciates this full maternal self-sacrifice, especially since it was Mother who noticed that the small son cleanly, accurately and quickly selects the songs he heard on any instrument.

After the first contest

When eleven-year-old Vadim received almost everythingthe prize of the Wieniawski Competition (and the main one, and in several groups, several distinctions, from the jury and from the public), the question arose of what to do next, how to develop success? A wise teacher - the most famous today and almost unknown then Zakhar Bron, prepared Vadim for the appointment with Tikhon Khrennikov. The boy learned a difficult violin concert in two weeks to please this wonderful composer.

Star disease began nowhere and there was no time- The eleven-year-old violinist was engaged more than six hours a day only with his instrument. And my mother harshly suppressed any attempts to become proud. And Tikhon Khrennikov very much fell in love with Vadim Repin, as well as his pupil Maxim Vengerov. Often there were author's evenings of the composer, where the boys performed together with Zhenya Kisin - the child prodigy pianist. Happy and carefree time!

Violins

Vadim was lucky with a concert violin madeextremely talented Novosibirsk master Mikhail Defler, but when Tikhon Khrennikov insisted in the Ministry of Culture that this boy is worthy of the best instrument in the world, Stradivari violin was issued to him from the state collection. The horizons before the young talent were opened simply immense.

Children's, three-quarter (the only one in the world,By the way), it sounded like a full-fledged adult. And three years later, thanks to the efforts of Tikhon Nikolayevich, Vadim Repin was already playing on the full Stradivarius - Stradivarius Veniavsky. Almost all the famous violins have names, because each has his own biography. This tool used himself Venyavsky, when he worked at the Mariinsky Theater.

But then, growing up, Vadim preferred Guarneri,because in the instruments of the school of Stradivari there is practically nothing earthly, they are impeccable, they sing in the clouds with divine voices. That is, these violins somehow set the player the rules of the game, which he is not able to break. Guarneri made his instruments more philosophical: they, too, with a "sky-high" beautiful sound, but also terrestrial, "ugly" sound able, do not resist when it is needed. And often it is just necessary, especially if you play modern music, which Vadim has in his repertoire a lot.

Three generations

Not for the first time in 2015 in NovosibirskThe Trans-Siberian Art Festival took place, where three generations of violinists from the same school performed, including Zakhar Bron himself and his wonderful student Vadim Repin. The photo above clearly shows how much expression, how much energy the performers bring to the stage, by a synchronous wave of the bows you can see - the movement has not stopped!

The program was the most virtuoso knownviolin pieces - Sarasate, Ravel, Paganini ... Zakhar Nukhimovich Bron stood behind the conductor console of the chamber orchestra. Young, still not eighteen-year-old pupils of this master teacher played. Their music amazed the listeners.

Performance by Vadim Repin and Zakhar BronProkofiev’s sonatas in C major for two violins was the crown of this magnificent almost three-hour concert. The hall stood up and didn’t let go of their pets for a long time, because they wrote the name of their native Novosibirsk on all the maps of world culture in the largest letters.