Leonidas Kavakos 莱奥尼迪斯·卡瓦科斯

简介Biography

莱昂尼达斯·卡瓦科斯是国际乐坛公认的当代最优秀小提琴家之一，他有着出众的技巧、超凡的音乐性和独到的音乐诠释。他受邀与全世界诸多顶级交响乐团合作，并独家为Decca公司录制唱片。

对卡瓦科斯艺术生涯影响最大的三位导师是斯特里奥斯·卡凡特里斯、约瑟夫·金格尔德和弗朗克·拉多斯。21岁时，卡瓦科斯已经是西贝柳斯国际小提琴比赛（1985年）、帕格尼尼小提琴大赛（1988年）和瑙姆堡小提琴比赛（1988年）三项国际大赛的冠军获得者。在赛事中出众的表现为他赢得了首次录制西贝柳斯小提琴协奏曲原始版本（1903年至1904年）的机会，这张唱片在1991年获得了留声机大奖的“年度协奏曲”奖项。

卡瓦科斯长期与当今最优秀的乐团和指挥大师合作，其中包括维也纳爱乐乐团、柏林爱乐乐团、阿姆斯特丹皇家音乐厅管弦乐团、伦敦交响乐团、莱比锡布商大厦管弦乐团、德累斯顿国家交响乐团、巴黎管弦乐团、罗马圣切契里亚管弦乐团、斯卡拉爱乐乐团、费城管弦乐团、纽约爱乐乐团、波士顿交响乐团、芝加哥交响乐团、洛杉矶爱乐乐团，以及指挥家捷杰耶夫、西蒙·拉特、夏依、艾森巴赫等。在2015年至2016年音乐季中，他与伦敦爱乐乐团进行了西班牙巡演，同巴伐利亚广播交响乐团展开美国巡演。而韦尔比耶音乐节、白夜音乐节、爱丁堡艺术节、坦格坞德音乐节亦能见到他登台演奏。卡瓦克斯还将在德累斯顿音乐节演奏贝多芬小提琴奏鸣曲全集。

近几年卡瓦科斯也逐渐开始了他的指挥家生涯，他指挥过的乐团包括伦敦交响乐团、波士顿交响乐团、柏林德意志交响乐团、维也纳交响乐团、布达佩斯节日管弦乐团等。在2015年至2016年音乐季中他作为指挥合作的乐团包括维也纳交响乐团、欧洲室内乐团、法国广播爱乐乐团，并首次指挥班贝格交响乐团、丹麦国家交响乐团、荷兰广播乐团、鹿特丹爱乐乐团以及罗马圣切契里亚管弦乐团。

2013年卡瓦科斯在Decca公司录制的第一套唱片——贝多芬小提琴奏鸣曲全集便斩获了德国回声古典音乐大奖的“年度最佳器乐独奏”奖项。2013年10月，Decca发型了另一张唱片——卡瓦科斯与夏伊指挥的莱比锡布商大厦管弦乐团录制的勃拉姆斯小提琴协奏曲，2014年又发行了与王羽佳演奏的勃拉姆斯小提琴奏鸣曲唱片。在2014年，卡瓦科斯获得了留声机大奖颁发的“年度艺术家”奖项。

他早期曾在BIS、ECM和索尼等厂牌录制唱片，其中在索尼唱片录制的门德尔松小提琴协奏曲曾获得德国回声古典音乐大奖的“最佳协奏曲录音”。此外他还曾兼任独奏及指挥与萨尔茨堡室内乐团录制了莫扎特小提琴协奏曲专辑。

卡瓦科斯出生于雅典的一个音乐世家，他曾在雅典美加仑音乐厅主持一项室内乐计划长达15年，在此期间包括罗斯特罗波维奇、海因里希·席夫、梅纳姆·普莱斯勒、艾曼纽尔·埃克斯、尼科莱·鲁岗斯基、王羽佳、戈蒂耶·卡普松等独奏家都曾参与这个项目的室内乐音乐会。目前卡瓦科斯还在雅典主持着一个室内乐大师班，吸引了来自世界各地的室内乐组合和器乐演奏家前来学习。

卡瓦科斯演奏时最常使用的一把小提琴是1724年斯特拉迪瓦里“阿伯盖文尼”。他也拥有由莱昂哈德、格列纳、哈蒂、伯格等当代制琴师制作的小提琴。

摘自:https://www.sin80.com/artist/kavakos

Leonidas Kavakos (Greek: Λεωνίδας Καβάκος; born 30 October 1967) is a Greek violinist and conductor. As a violinist, he has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius,Paganini, and Indianapolis competitions. He has also recorded for record labels such as Sony/BMG and BIS. As a conductor, he was an artistic director of the Camerata Salzburg and has been a guest conductor of theLondon Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Beginnings Born in Athens into a musical family, Kavakos first learned to play the violin when he was five and later enrolled in the Hellenic Conservatory, studying with Stelios Kafantaris. An Onassis Foundation scholarship enabled him to attend master classes with Josef Gingold at Indiana University. He made his concert debut at the Athens Festival in 1984. In 1985, he won the International Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and in 1986 won silver medal in the Indianapolis International Violin Competition. He also took first prizes at the Naumburg Competition in New York (1988) and the Paganini Violin Competition (1988). Performances America His United States debut was in 1986, and, the following year, he gave recitals at venues across the country. Kavakos now tours North America annually and works with numerous major orchestras, including the Chicago, and Montreal Symphony Orchestras. Europe In Europe, following his competition win in Helsinki, Kavakos' reputation spread quickly. He now works extensively in major concert halls across the continent, working with world class orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. He has appeared at festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Salzburg Festival, where he first appeared in 1994, the Lucerne Festival, and the Stars of White Nights Festival. In 1991, the original version of Sibelius' Violin Concerto in d minor (mostly unknown to the world at large until then), was permitted a performance and a recording by Sibelius's heirs on the BIS record label; both original and final versions were played by Leonidas Kavakos and conducted by Osmo Vänskä. He has appeared throughout the UK with numerous orchestras, starting in 1992 performing the Stravinskyconcerto at the London Proms. He is currently the artist in residence at the Berlin Philharmonic. Asia Kavakos made a highly successful Japanese debut in 1988 including a recital at Tokyo's Casals Hall and has since toured Japan with the English Chamber Orchestra and given concerts with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic. He was called "The Violinists' Violinist" by the Strad Magazine. In 2014, he was invited to perform in the 42nd Hong Kong Arts Festival. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_Kavakos