Mankind knows not so many geeks whose abilities for active age would not fade away. They are usually filled with music, and art, and mathematics schools, but, as they say, "go to the finals" units. That is exactly Vadim Repin. The young Novosibirsk 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 swiftly and brilliantly. Six years after he first ran the bow along the strings, Vadim Repin won the Wieniawski International Competition in Lublin, receiving a gold medal. Then he was eleven years old. And at fourteen he had already toured the world: Helsinki, Berlin, Munich, Tokyo ...
At fifteen, Vadim played in New York, at Carnegie Hall. At seventeen, he won the International Competition in Brussels - one of the most prestigious. And then he became the youngest laureate in the history of this competition. The Queen of Belgium was so moved by his game that she granted him citizenship. Now Vadim Repin can live freely in this country too. The great musician of the twentieth century I. Menukhin called the young violinist the most perfect of all he heard, the best of all living.
Takeoff is not over
Since then, the best orchestras in the world have been honored to play one music with such a virtuoso as Vadim Repin. Performances took place with the Berlin, Boston, Cleveland and Chicago orchestras, with La Scala and the philharmonic orchestras of New York, Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Now the prizes that Vadim Repin has ever received can no longer be counted. Participating in the most famous and prestigious festivals, he almost always took the biggest awards.
Music festivals in the world are diverse. Historical ones such as Salzburg cannot be overlooked, and everyone understands why. There are also very popular ones, such as Proms, it is interesting and useful to play there. But there are such atmospheric, informal, full of fellowships, such as, for example, Swiss in Verbier, not to visit which means to leave yourself without sweets. So Vadim Repin considers. His biography is replenished with more and more new facts: how many claims, so many victories.
Concerts
Now he has about a hundred concerts a year at the best venues in the world. His stage partners are always brilliant: Yuri Bashmet, Martha Argerich, Nikolai Lugansky, Mikhail Pletnev, Boris Berezovsky, Evgeny Kisin ... Itās simply impossible to list all of them. Most importantly, Vadim Repin, a violinist from God, is still gaining height, and his takeoff is not over. Modern life is incredibly accelerated, and this race is difficult to resist, but it is necessary.
The musician must recover after each concert, which takes away a lot of energy and almost all mental strength. Concert plans for professionals such as Vadim Repin, a violinist, are drawn up for several years in advance and only in the most exceptional cases change. The reason may be the anniversary of one of the friends, musicians, then another hundred is added to one hundred concerts a year. But Vadim is far from one friend among his colleagues. And other situations quite often add up so that playing additionally is simply necessary. Where does Vadim Repin take strength for such a busy concert schedule?
State of happiness
When a person is happy, he can turn mountains. And the reasons for the elevated emotional state are very significant since Vadim Repin and Svetlana Zakharova got married . The daughter (there will be no photos of this little happiness, the parents protect the girl from prying eyes) made the artistās creative energy simply immense. And, of course, the music itself inspires and gives strength.
Vadim Repin at his concerts plays only those compositions that do not select, but give joy, nourish with his power due to the pleasure received from their performance. For example, he always plays Brahms with enthusiasm and himself notes that every note in the works of this composer leads him into ecstasy. The violinist is very fond of the romantic style in music and has many pieces of such a plan in his repertoire. And from the new, modern, he included a violin concert in his concert programs - an amazing piece written by James Macmillan especially for Vadim Repin.
School of Music
His family had never had a single musician, and suddenly a child prodigy appeared - Vadim Repin, violinist. His biography as a musician began at the age of five, when on August 31 the kid was brought to record in a music school. He wanted percussion instruments or a button accordion. But it turned out too late, all the places in these departments were occupied. They gave Vadim a violin in their hands and said that if they didnāt like it, they would have to come early, but next year.
The boy fell in love with the violin to such an extent that his parents reconsidered their plans for the rest of their lives. Vadim's father was a graphic designer, and his mother was a nurse. In the future, dad earned a living, and mom completely gave herself up to her sonās talent and his support. She had absolutely no musical education and studied at the same time as Vadim, listening to him and delving into the very essence. This full maternal self-sacrifice Vadim highly appreciates, especially since it was her mother who noticed that the little son cleanly, clearly and quickly selects the songs he heard on any instrument.
After the first competition
When the eleven-year-old Vadim received almost all the prizes of the Weniawski competition (and the main one is the first, and in different groups there are several insignia, both from the jury and from the public), the question arose about what to do next, how to develop success? A wise teacher, Zakhar Bron, the most famous and almost unknown then, prepared Vadim for an appointment with Tikhon Khrennikov. The boy learned the hardest violin concerto in two weeks to please this wonderful composer.
There was nowhere to start a star disease, and there was no time - the eleven-year-old violinist worked on his instrument more than six hours a day. Yes, and my mother harshly suppressed any attempts to become proud. And Tikhon Khrennikov loved Vadim Repin very much, just like his student Maxim Vengerov. Often there were authorās evenings of the composer, where the boys gave a concert with Zhenya Kisin, a pianist prodigy. It was a happy and carefree time!
Violins
Vadim was lucky with a concert violin made by an extremely talented Novosibirsk master Mikhail Defler, but when Tikhon Khrennikov insisted that the boy deserves the best instrument in the world, he was given the Stradivarius violin from the state collection. The horizons in front of a young talent opened simply boundless.
Children's, three-quarter (the only one in the world, by the way), it sounded like a full-fledged adult. And three years later, again thanks to the efforts of Tikhon Nikolaevich, Vadim Repin was already playing the full Stradivarius - Stradivarius Wieniawski. Almost all famous violins have names, because everyone has their own biography. Wieniawski himself used this tool when he worked at the Mariinsky Theater.
But then, growing up, Vadim preferred Guarneri, because there is practically nothing earthly in the instruments of the Stradivarius school, they are impeccable, they sing in divine voices in the clouds. That is, these violins somehow set the performer to the rules of the game, which he is not able to break. Guarneri made his instruments more philosophical: they, too, with a "transcendental" beautiful sound, but also know how to sound earthly, "ugly", do not resist when it is needed. And often this is simply necessary, especially if you play modern music, which Vadim has in his repertoire a lot.
Three generations
This is not the first time in 2015 that the Trans-Siberian art festival took place in Novosibirsk, where three generations of violinists from one 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, you can see from the synchronized wave of the bows - the movement did not stop!
The program included the most virtuoso of the famous violin pieces - Sarasate, Ravel, Paganini ... Behind the conductor's console of the chamber orchestra was Zakhar Nukhimovich Bron. The young, far from eighteen-year-old students of this master-teacher played. Their music amazed the listeners.
The performance by Vadim Repin and Zakhar Bron of Prokofievās sonata C major for two violins was the crown of this magnificent almost three-hour concert. The hall stood up and for a long time did not let go of their favorites, because it was they who wrote the name of their native Novosibirsk on all the maps of world culture in the largest letters.