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Leonidas Kavakos

Ua ʻike ʻia ʻo Leonidas Kavakos ma ka honua holoʻokoʻa ma ke ʻano he mea hoʻokani o ke akamai kūʻokoʻa, ka virtuosity ʻokoʻa, e hoʻopio i ka lehulehu a me nā poʻe loea me ka mele maikaʻi loa a me ka pololei o ka wehewehe ʻana.

Ua hānau ʻia ka violinist i ka makahiki 1967 ma Athens i loko o kahi ʻohana o nā mea hoʻokani pila a lawe i kāna mau hana mua i ke mele ma lalo o ke alakaʻi ʻana a kona mau mākua. A laila ua aʻo ʻo ia ma ka Greek Conservatory me Stelios Kafantaris, nāna i manaʻo ʻo ia kekahi o kāna mau kumu aʻoaʻo nui ʻekolu, me Joseph Gingold lāua ʻo Ferenc Rados.

I ka makahiki 21, ua lanakila ʻo Kavakos i ʻekolu mau hoʻokūkū hoʻokūkū hanohano: i ka makahiki 1985 ua lanakila ʻo ia i ka hoʻokūkū Sibelius ma Helsinki, a i ka makahiki 1988 ka hoʻokūkū Paganini ma Genoa a me ka hoʻokūkū Naumburg ma USA. ʻO kēia mau mea i hoʻokō ʻia i kaulana ai ka ʻōpio violinist ma ka honua holoʻokoʻa, e like me ka hoʻopaʻa ʻana i ka wā ma hope koke iho - ka mea mua ma ka mōʻaukala - o ka mana kumu o ka J. Sibelius Concerto, i hāʻawi ʻia i ka makana Gramophone magazine. Hoʻohanohano ʻia ka mea hoʻokani pila i ka violin kaulana ʻo Il Cannone na Guarneri del Gesu, nona ka Paganini.

I loko o nā makahiki o kāna ʻoihana hoʻokahi, ua loaʻa iā Kavakos ka manawa e hoʻokani me nā mea hoʻokani pila kaulana loa a me nā alakaʻi o ka honua, e like me ka Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra a me Sir Simon Rattle, ka Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra a me Mariss Jansons, ka London Symphony Orchestra a me Valery ʻO Gergiev, ka Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra a me Riccardo Chaily. I ka makahiki 2012/13, he mea pena ʻo ia ma ka Berlin Philharmonic a me London Symphony Orchestras, i komo i ka huakaʻi hoʻomanaʻo o ka Concertgebouw Orchestra a me M. Jansons me Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 2 (ua hana ʻia kēia hana e ka ʻO ka orchestra no ka manawa mua).

I ka makahiki 2013/14, ua hoʻomaka ʻo Kavakos i kāna hoʻomaka me ka Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra i alakaʻi ʻia e R. Chaily. Ma US, hana mau ʻo ia me New York a me Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, Chicago a me Boston Symphony Orchestras, a me Philadelphia Orchestra.

I ka makahiki 2014/15, ʻo Artist-in-Residence ka mea hoʻokani pila ma ka Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Ua hoʻomaka ka hui ʻana me kahi huakaʻi hou o nā kūlanakauhale ʻEulopa i alakaʻi ʻia e ka maestro Maris Jansons. ʻO ke kau i hala aku nei, ʻo Kavakos ka Artist-in-Residence me ka US National Symphony Orchestra ma Wakinekona DC.

I Ianuali 2015, ua hoʻokani ʻo L. Kavakos i ka Sibelius Violin Concerto me ka Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra i alakaʻi ʻia e Sir Simon Rattle, a i Pepeluali i hōʻike ʻia ma London Barbican.

Ma ke ʻano he "kanaka o ka honua", mālama a mālama ʻo Kavakos i nā pilina pili me kona ʻāina hānau - ʻo Helene. No nā makahiki 15, mālama ʻo ia i kahi pōʻai o nā ʻaha mele keʻena ma ka Megaron Concert Hall ma Athens, kahi i hoʻokani ai nā mea hoʻokani mele - kona mau hoaaloha a me nā hoa mau: Mstislav Rostropovich, Heinrich Schiff, Emanuel Ax, Nikolai Lugansky, Yuja Wang, Gauthier Capuçon. Mālama ʻo ia i ka Violin and Chamber Music Masterclasses makahiki ma Athens, e huki ana i nā violinists a me nā hui mai nā wahi a pau o ka honua a hōʻike i kahi kūpaʻa hohonu i ka hoʻolaha ʻana i ka ʻike mele a me nā kuʻuna.

I nā makahiki i hala iho nei, ua ulu ikaika ka ʻoihana o Kavakos ma ke ʻano he alakaʻi. Mai ka makahiki 2007, ua alakaʻi ʻo ia i ka Salzburg Chamber Orchestra (Camerata Salzburg), e pani ana.

pou o Sir Roger Norrington. Ma ʻEulopa, ua alakaʻi ʻo ia i ka German Symphony Orchestra o Berlin, ka Chamber Orchestra o ʻEulopa, ka orchestra o ka National Academy of Santa Cecilia, ka Vienna Symphony Orchestra, ka Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, ka Finnish Radio Orchestra a me ka Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; ma US, na ka Boston, Atlanta, a me St. Louis Symphony Orchestras. I ka makahiki i hala, ua hoʻokani hou ka mea hoʻokani pila me ka Boston Symphony Orchestra, ka Budapest Festival Orchestra, ka Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra a me ka Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, a hoʻomaka i kāna hana mua ma ka console o ka London Symphony Orchestra a me ka Philharmonic Orchestra o Radio France.

Mai ka makahiki 2012, ʻo Leonidas Kavakos ka mea pena kiʻi kūʻokoʻa o Decca Classics. ʻO kāna hoʻokuʻu mua ʻana ma ka lepili, ʻo Beethoven's Complete Violin Sonatas me Enrico Pace, ua loaʻa i ka Instrumentalist of the Year ma ka 2013 ECHO Klassik Awards a ua koho ʻia ʻo ia no kahi makana Grammy. I ka makahiki 2013/14, ua hōʻike ʻo Kavakos lāua ʻo Pace i kahi pōʻai piha o nā sonata a Beethoven ma New York's Carnegie Hall a ma nā ʻāina o ka Hikina Hikina.

ʻO ka disc ʻelua a ka mea hoʻokani pila ma Decca Classics, i hoʻokuʻu ʻia ma ʻOkakopa 2013, e hōʻike ana i ka Brahms 'Violin Concerto me ka Gewandhaus Orchestra (i alakaʻi ʻia e Riccardo Chailly). Ua hoʻokuʻu ʻia ke kolu o ka disc ma ka lepili like (Brahms Violin Sonatas me Yuja Wang) i ka pūnāwai o 2014. I Nowemapa 2014, hoʻokani nā mea hoʻokani i kahi pōʻai sonata ma Carnegie Hall (ua hoʻolaha ʻia ka ʻahamele ma USA a me Kanada), a ma 2015 hōʻike lākou i ka papahana ma nā kūlanakauhale nui loa o ʻEulopa.

Ma hope o ka Sibelius Concerto a me kekahi mau mele mua ʻē aʻe ma nā lepili Dynamic, BIS a me ECM, ua hoʻopaʻa nui ʻo Kavakos ma Sony Classical, me ʻelima concerto violin a me Mozart's Symphony No.).

Ma 2014, ua loaʻa i ka mea hoʻokani pila i ka makana Gramophone a ua kapa ʻia ʻo Artist of the Year.

I ke kauwela o 2015, ua komoʻo ia i nāʻahaʻaina nui honua: "Stars of the White Nights" ma St. Petersburg, Verbier, Edinburgh, Annecy. Ma waena o kāna mau hoa hana i kēia mau ʻaha mele ʻo Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra me Valery Gergiev a me ka Academic Symphony Orchestra o St. Petersburg Philharmonic me Yuri Temikanov, ka Israel Philharmonic Orchestra me Gianandrea Noseda.

I Iune 2015, he lālā ʻo Leonidas Kavakos o ka jure o ka hoʻokūkū violin o ka XV International Tchaikovsky Competition. PI Tchaikovsky.

ʻO ka makahiki 2015/2016 piha i nā hanana mālamalama i kaʻoihana o kahi mea hoʻokani pila. Ma waena o lākou: nā huakaʻi ma Rusia (nā ʻaha mele ma Kazan me ka State Symphony Orchestra o Tatarstan i alakaʻi ʻia e Alexander Sladkovsky a ma Moscow me ka State Academic Symphony Orchestra o Russia i alakaʻi ʻia e Vladimir Yurovsky); nā ʻahamele ma UK a me kahi huakaʻi o Sepania me ka London Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor V. Yurovsky); ʻelua huakaʻi lōʻihi o nā kūlanakauhale US (Cleveland, San Francisco, Philadelphia i Nowemapa 2015; New York, Dallas i Malaki 2016); ʻaha mele me ka Bavarian Radio orchestras (i alakaʻi ʻia e Mariss Jansons), ka London Symphony Orchestra (Simon Rattle), ka Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Vladimir Yurovsky), ka Danish National Symphony Orchestra a me ka Orchester National de Lyon (Jukka-Pekka Saraste), ka ʻO Orchestra de Paris (Paavo Järvi), ka La Scala Theatre Orchestra (Daniel Harding), ka Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra (Gustavo Gimeno), ka Dresden Staatskapella (Robin Ticciati) a me kekahi mau hui alakaʻi ʻē aʻe ma ʻEulopa a me USA; nā hana ma ke ʻano he alakaʻi a me ka soloist me ka Chamber Orchestra o ʻEulopa, ka Singapore Symphony Orchestra, ka Philharmonic Orchestra o Radio France, ka Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, ka Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, ka Danish National Symphony Orchestra, ka Netherlands Radio Orchestra, ka Rotterdam Philharmonic , ka Vienna Symphony; nā ʻahamele keʻena, kahi e hana ai nā pianists ʻo Enrico Pace lāua ʻo Nikolai Lugansky, cellist Gauthier Capuçon ma ke ʻano he mau hoa o ka mea hoʻokani pila.

Makemake nui ʻo Leonidas Kavakos i ka hana ʻana i nā violins a me nā kakaka (kahiko a me ka wā hou), me ka noʻonoʻo ʻana he mea pohihihi a pohihihi kēia hana, ʻaʻole i hoʻoholo ʻia a hiki i ko mākou mau lā. Hoʻokani ʻo ia i ka violin Abergavenny Stradivarius (1724), nona nā violins i hana ʻia e nā haku o kēia wā maikaʻi loa, a me kahi hōʻiliʻili kūʻokoʻa o nā kakaka.