- Viktoria Mullova
Infobox musical artist
Name = Viktoria Mullova
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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Born = birth date and age|1959|11|27
nearMoscow ,Russia ,USSR
Instrument =Violin
Genre = Classical
Occupation =Violinist
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URL = [http://www.viktoriamullova.com www.ViktoriaMullova.com]
Notable_instruments = Violin"Jules Falk Stradivarius " 1723Giovanni Battista Guadagnini 1750Viktoria Mullova ( _ru. Виктория Муллова) (born on
27 November 1959 ) is a Russianviolin ist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions byMiles Davis ,Duke Ellington ,The Beatles , and others.Biography
Mullova was born in a town near
Moscow , inSoviet Russia . [cite journal | author=John Woodford | title=Through the Looking Glass with Viktoria Mullova | url=http://www.musicteachers.co.uk/journal/index.php?issue=2001-02&file=mullovainterview | journal=MusicTeachers.co.uk Online Journal | volume=2 | issue=8 | year=2001 | accessdate=2008-06-29] After studying at theCentral Music School of Moscow and at theMoscow Conservatoire underLeonid Kogan , she won first prize at the 1980International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition inHelsinki and the Gold Medal at theInternational Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982. During a tour ofFinland in 1983, Mullova and her lover,Vakhtang Jordania who posed as her accompanist so they could defect together, left the hotel inKuusamo , after Jordania told the KGB officer who was watching them that Mullova was too sick from drinking to attend theafterparty . The Stradivari violin owned by the Soviet Union was left behind on the hotel bed. AnYLE journalist [ [http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/uutinen.asp?id=1586557] Iltalehti: "Viktoria Mullovaloikkauksestaan: Vihdoin voin lopettaa valehtelemisen" (in finnish). Retrieved 2008-09-13] accompanied with a photographer drove them with a rented car across the border toLuleå Sweden , and they travelled further toStockholm . In Sweden, they applied forpolitical asylum . At that time, the Swedish police treated young, on-the-run musicians just like any other political defector and suggested they stay in a hotel over the weekend until the Americanembassy opened. So for two days they sat under false names in a hotel room, not even daring to go down to the reception desk -- wisely, as it turned out, because their photographs were on the front page of every newspaper. Two days later they were inWashington D.C. with American visas in their pockets.Mullova has made many recordings including her debut release of the Tchaikovsky and
Jean Sibelius violin concertos which was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque.She formed the Mullova Chamber Ensemble in the mid-1990s. The ensemble has toured Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands and has recorded the Bach violin concertos on Philips Classics. She was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for her recording of the Bach Partitas, and she won a 1995 Echo Klassik award, a Japanese Record Academy Award and a Deutsche Schallplattenkritik prize for her recording of the
Johannes Brahms concerto. Her recording of the Brahms "B major Trio (no. 1)" and Beethoven's Archduke Trio with Andre Previn and Heinrich Schiff was released in 1995, receiving a further Diapason d'Or.Mullova's international career as a soloist has included performances with the
Philharmonia , theVienna Symphony , theMontreal Symphony Orchestra , theSan Francisco Symphony and theBavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra . She has also performed as soloist and director with theOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment .Mullova plays on the "Jules Falk
Stradivarius " from 1723 and an violin made in 1750 byGiovanni Battista Guadagnini . Her bows include a Baroque style bow by a modern maker, a Dodd and a Voirin.Personal life
Mullova currently lives in
Holland Park ,London ,England with her husband, cellist Matthew Barley and three children: Misha, from her relationship withClaudio Abbado , Katia, from her relationship with Alan Brind, and Nadia, from her marriage with Barley. [cite news | url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-899581-details/Reflections+to+Mullova/article.do | title=Reflections to Mullova | work=The Evening Standard | author=Ian Phillips | date=7 July 2000 | accessdate=2007-08-30] [cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,431917,00.html | title=And this one's by the Bee Gees | work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=2 February 2001 | accessdate=2007-08-30]elected discography
*"JS Bach sonatas" (Onyx 4020). With Ottavio Dantone; 2007
*"Vivaldi 5 violin concertos" (Onyx 4001). With Il Giardino Armonico;2005
*"Beethoven and Mendelssohn Violin Concertos" (Philips, 473 872-2). With Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner; 2003
*"Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 3-4" (Philips, 470 292). With Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; 2002
*"Through the Looking Glass" (Philips, 464 184-2). With Matthew Barley and Between the Notes; 2000
*"Bartók and Stravinsky Violin Concertos" (Philips, 456 542-2). With Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen; 1997
*"Brahms Violin Sonatas" (Philips, 446 709-2). With pianist Piotr Anderszewski; 1997References
External links
* [http://www.viktoriamullova.com/index.asp Viktoria Mullova official website]
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