Vadim Repin

Career overview

Vadim Viktorovich Repin is a Russian and Belgian violinist born in Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, on August 31, 1971. He currently lives in Vienna. At the age of fourteen in 1985, he made his debuts in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, and Helsinki, followed by a debut in Carnegie Hall a year later. When he was seventeen, he became the youngest winner of the violin section of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels. Throughout his career, Repin has recorded various pieces by French and Russian composers, including violin concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich. Following a performance, violinist Yehudi Menuhin described him as simply the best and most perfect violinist he had ever had the chance to hear.

In addition to performing, music education is an important part of his life. He has given master classes for young violinists at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and served on juries for competitions such as the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London, the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Brussels Concours Reine Elisabeth, and the 2009 violin section of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. Within the film and television industry, Repin is known for acting work with known credits including In Search of Beethoven, Europakonzert 2008 from Moscow, Me Myself I, Great Performances, and Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen of Cremona.