Vadim Repin , Sergey Tarasov

Programme:

Mozart：Sonata for violin and piano in e minor, K304
Beethoven：Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major,“Kreutzer”
Csar Franck：Sonata for violin and piano in A Major

Violin: Vadim Repin
Piano: Sergey Tarasov

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Born in 1971 in Novosibirsk, Vadim Repin began playing the violin at the age of five and after only six months made his first public appearance. He studied in his hometown with Zakhar Bron. At the age of seven he gave his first performance with orchestra, at eleven, his St. Petersburg recital debut. His international breakthrough came in 1989, when Repin became the youngest-ever winner of the world’s most prestigious and demanding violin competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Since then Vadim Repin has appeared with the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors and at the leading international festivals. His chamber-music partners have included Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Evgeny Kissin, Nikolai Lugansky, Mischa Maisky and Mikhail Pletnev. The violinist has won numerous prizes including an Echo Award as “Instrumentalist of the Year 1999”, the Diapason d’or, the Prix Caecilia and the Edison Award.
http://www.vadimrepin.com/

Sergey Tarasov is a Russian pianist.
He was awarded 2nd prizes at the 1995 Ferruccio Busoni and Arthur Rubinstein competitions before winning the 1996 Sydney International Piano Competition. In 1988 he also won the 7th Prague Spring International Piano Competition. He subsequently obtained the 1998 International Tchaikovsky Competition's 4th prize, and won the 1999 Premio Jaén.