Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s repertoire ranges from baroque and classical (often played on gut strings) to a number of new commissions or re-interpretations of modern masterworks.   Highlights of the 2012/13 season included performances with WDR Sinfonieorchester, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande with Neeme Järvi, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, both with Pablo Heras-Casado, and Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Touring also played a prominent part in Kopatchinskaja’s concert activities last season; she toured the Netherlands with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and in summer 2013 led a twelve-concert tour of Australia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.   2013/14 sees Kopatchinskaja continue her regular collaboration with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski as they embark upon a major European tour together to include appearances in Vienna, Paris, Brussels, Luxembourg and Stuttgart. This season she will appear with the Philharmonia Orchestra and debuts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, both with Vladimir Ashkenazy, with the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin under René Jacobs and Musica Aeterna ensemble with Teodor Currentzis. She also performs Peter Eötvös’ recent violin concerto ‘DoReMi’ with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by the composer, as part the Musica Viva Festival in Munich in spring 2014. Other highlights of the season include a play/direct programme with the Britten Sinfonia at London’s Barbican Centre and a residency at the 2013 Beethovenfest Bonn, which will feature a number of chamber concerts as well as a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Bamberger Symphoniker under the baton of Jonathan Nott.   Chamber music is of immense importance to Kopatchinskaja’s artistic life and her regular chamber partners include Fazil Say, Sol Gabetta, Markus Hinterhäuser and Polina Leschenko, as well as members of her own family. She is also a founding member of the newly formed quartet-lab, a string quartet with Pekka Kuusisto, Lilli Maijala and Pieter Wispelwey. In autumn 2013 the quartet will embark upon a European tour including performances at London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, and the Eindhoven Muziekgebouw among others.   Patricia Kopatchinskaja records exclusively for Naïve Classique. Releases for the label include her reading of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, and more recently, a critically acclaimed all-Hungarian CD with Peter Eötvös, featuring Bartók’s second Violin Concerto, Ligeti’s Concerto and Eötvös’ Seven, in collaboration with hr-Sinfonieorchester and Ensemble Modern. Her latest disc – a recording of violin concerti by Prokofiev and Stravinsky with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski – is released in autumn 2013. In addition, she has recorded works by Tigran Mansurian and Ustvolskaya for ECM Records.   The winner of numerous prizes over the course of her career to date, Patricia Kopatchinskaja was announced as the recipient of the 2012 Praetorius Musikpreis Niedersachsen Award in the category of innovation.   Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays a violin made by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda in 1834. She is a goodwill ambassador for the charity Terre des Hommes, through which she supports projects for children in Moldova.