Viktoria Mullova (violin) captured international attention when she won first prize at the 1980 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982, which was followed in 1983 by her dramatic and much publicized defection to the West. She has since appeared with most of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors and at the major international festivals. She has collaborated with several period-instrument ensembles, including the Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Il Giardino Armonico and Venice Baroque Orchestra. Her extensive discography includes Vivaldi Concertos with Il Giardino Armonico, which won the Diapason D’Or of the Year award in 2005, Beethoven and Schubert sonatas with fortepianists Kristian Bezuidenhout and Alistair Beatson, and Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas, and her artistry has been celebrated in several high-profile residencies, including at London’s Southbank Centre, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Musikfest Bremen and the Helsinki Music Festival.
Viktoria Mullova (violin) captured international attention when she won first prize at the 1980 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982, which was followed in 1983 by her dramatic and much publicized defection to the West. She has since appeared with most of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors and at the major international festivals. She has collaborated with several period-instrument ensembles, including the Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Il Giardino Armonico and Venice Baroque Orchestra. Her extensive discography includes Vivaldi Concertos with Il Giardino Armonico, which won the Diapason D’Or of the Year award in 2005, Beethoven and Schubert sonatas with fortepianists Kristian Bezuidenhout and Alistair Beatson, and Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas, and her artistry has been celebrated in several high-profile residencies, including at London’s Southbank Centre, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Musikfest Bremen and the Helsinki Music Festival.