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11 Aug 2014

Russian violinist Vadim Repin to perform in Minsk in October

Russian violin virtuoso Vadim Repin in MinskMINSK, 11 August (BelTA) - Russian violin virtuoso Vadim Repin will perform in Minsk as part of the 9th Yuri Bashmet International Festival, BelTA learnt from the organizers of the festival.

Vadim Repin, who is often called the Russian Paganini, will give a concert in Misnk on 5 October. Vadim Repin plays the 1743 Bonjour violin by Guarneri del Gesu.

Vadim Repin will perform together with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus conducted by People's Artist of Russia Dmitry Liss, chief conductor of the Ural Academic Symphony Orchestra. Symphony No. 3 by Rachmaninoff which the orchestra will present has not been performed in Minsk for many years.

Born in 1971 in Novosibirsk, Vadim Repin began playing the violin at the age of five. At the age of seven he gave his first performance with orchestra. At eleven was his St. Petersburg recital debut. His international breakthrough came in 1985, at the early age of fourteen, and in 1989 Repin became the youngest-ever winner of the world’s most prestigious and demanding violin competition, the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels. Since then, Vadim Repin has appeared with the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors and at the leading international festivals. 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.

The program of the Yuri Bashmet festival will officially open on the stage of the Belarusian State Philharmonic on 29 September has not been revealed yet.

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