After winning the most prestigious and demanding violin competition in the world, the Reine Elisabeth Concours, at the age of seventeen, Vadim Repin, now twenty-seven, is recognized as the foremost young violinist to have emerged from Russia since the days of Heifetz, Milstein and David Oistrakh.

Born in Novosibirsk, where he studied with Professor Zakhar Bron, Repin was only eleven when he won first prize in the Wieniawski International Competition. His first performance with orchestra was at the age of seven; at eleven he gave a recital in St. Petersburg.


His international solo career spans performances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic and Hall Orchestras. He has also appeared with the Orchestra de Paris, Sddeutscher Rundfunk, the NHK of Japan, the Kirov Orchestra and the Berlin Sinfonieorchester. Repin made his debut with the Chicago Symphony under Semyon Bychkov, and performed with the Montreal Symphony under Charles Dutoit. Other conductors with whom he has collaborated in the past include Temirkanov, Krivine, Chailly, Menuhin, Nagano, Rozhdestvensky, Gergiev, Prtre, Jansons, Boulez, Marriner and Mehta.

A keen chamber music player, Vadim Repin has been given Carte Blanche at the Louvre in Paris next season and will perform with a number of young colleagues in a wide range of repertoire.

Mr. Repin performs on the magnificent Stradivarius Ruby 1708, by kind permission of the Stradivari Society of Chicago.