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Leonidas Kavakos

E mohiotia ana a Leonidas Kavakos puta noa i te ao hei kaihaka o te tino pukenga, onge te hiranga, ka mau i te marea me nga tohunga ngaio he pai te puoro me te pono o te whakamaori.

I whanau te kaiwaiata i te tau 1967 i Athens i roto i te whanau o nga kaiwhakatangitangi, a, i mau i ana hikoinga tuatahi i roto i te waiata i raro i te arahi a ona matua. Na ka ako ia i te Whare Kariki Kariki me Stelios Kafantaris, e kiia ana ko ia tetahi o ana tino kaiarahi tokotoru, me Joseph Gingold me Ferenc Rados.

I te 21 o ona tau, e toru nga whakataetae rongonui a Kavakos i toa i te ao: i te tau 1985 i toa ia i te Whakataetae Sibelius i Helsinki, i te tau 1988 ko te Whakataetae Paganini i Genoa me te Whakataetae Naumburg i Amerika. Na enei whakatutukitanga i rongonui ai te rangatahi violinist puta noa i te ao, pera i te rekoata i muri tata mai - ko te tuatahi o te hitori - o te putanga taketake o te J. Sibelius Concerto, i whakawhiwhia te tohu moheni Gramophone. I whakanuia te kaiwhakatangitangi ki te whakatangi i te violin rongonui Il Cannone na Guarneri del Gesu, no Paganini.

I roto i nga tau o tana mahi takitahi, i whai waahi a Kavakos ki te mahi tahi me nga kaiwaiata rongonui me nga kaiarahi o te ao, penei i te Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra me Sir Simon Rattle, te Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra me Mariss Jansons, te London Symphony Orchestra me Valery. Gergiev, te Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra me Riccardo Chaily. I te wa o te tau 2012/13, he toi-i-noho ia o te Berlin Philharmonic me London Symphony Orchestras, i uru ki te haerenga huritau o te Concertgebouw Orchestra me M. Jansons me te Bartok's Violin Concerto No. orchestra mo te wa tuatahi).

I te tau 2013/14, i timata a Kavakos me te Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra i whakahaerehia e R. Chaily. I te US, he rite tonu tana mahi ki te New York me Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, te Chicago me Boston Symphony Orchestras, me te Philadelphia Orchestra.

I te tau 2014/15, ko te Kaiwaiorini ko Artist-in-Residence i te Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. I timata te mahi tahi i te haerenga hou ki nga taone Pakeha i arahina e te maestro Maris Jansons. I tera wa ano, ko Kavakos te Kai-toi-i-noho me te US National Symphony Orchestra i Washington DC.

I te Hanuere 2015, i whakatangihia e L. Kavakos te Sibelius Violin Concerto me te Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra i whakahaerehia e Sir Simon Rattle, a, i te Hui-tanguru i tukuna ki te London Barbican.

He “tangata no te ao”, ka mau tonu a Kavakos i nga hononga tata ki tona whenua tupu – Kariki. Mo nga tau 15, i tautokohia e ia he huringa o nga konohete waiata ruma i te Megaron Concert Hall i Athens, i reira nga kaiwaiata - ana hoa me ona hoa noho tonu: Mstislav Rostropovich, Heinrich Schiff, Emanuel Ax, Nikolai Lugansky, Yuja Wang, Gauthier Capuçon. Ka whakahaerehia e ia nga akomanga Waiorini me te Chamber Music Masterclasses i Athens, e kukume ana i nga kaiwaiata me nga roopu mai i nga wa katoa o te ao, me te whakaatu i te tino pono ki te hora i nga matauranga puoro me nga tikanga tuku iho.

I roto i nga tau tekau kua pahure ake nei, kua tino whanake haere te mahi a Kavakos hei kaikawe. Mai i te tau 2007, ko ia te kaiwhakahaere o te Salzburg Chamber Orchestra (Camerata Salzburg), hei whakakapi

te pou o Ta Roger Norrington. I Uropi kua whakahaerehia e ia te Tiamana Symphony Orchestra o Berlin, te Chamber Orchestra o Europe, te orchestra o te National Academy of Santa Cecilia, te Vienna Symphony Orchestra, te Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, te Finnish Radio Orchestra me te Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; i te US, na te Boston, Atlanta, me St. Louis Symphony Orchestras. I tera wa, ka mahi ano te kaiwaiata me te Boston Symphony Orchestra, te Budapest Festival Orchestra, te Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra me te Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, a ka puta tana tuatahi ki te papatohu o te London Symphony Orchestra me te Philharmonic Orchestra o Radio France.

Mai i te tau 2012, ko Leonidas Kavakos te kaitoi motuhake o Decca Classics. Ko tana tukunga tuatahi i runga i te tapanga, ko Beethoven's Complete Violin Sonatas me Enrico Pace, i whakawhiwhia ki a Instrumentalist of the Year i te 2013 ECHO Klassik Awards a i tohua ano mo te Tohu Grammy. I te tau 2013/14, ka whakaatu a Kavakos raua ko Pace i te huringa katoa o nga sonata a Beethoven i te Whare Carnegie Hall o New York me nga whenua o te Rawhiti.

Ko te kōpae tuarua a te kaiwaiata i runga i te Decca Classics, i tukuna i Oketopa 2013, e whakaatu ana a Brahms' Violin Concerto me te Gewandhaus Orchestra (na Riccardo Chailly i whakahaere). Ko te kopae tuatoru i runga i te tapanga kotahi (Brahms Violin Sonatas me Yuja Wang) i tukuna i te puna o te tau 2014. I te marama o Noema 2014, ka mahi nga kaiwaiata i te huringa o nga sonatas i Carnegie Hall (i panuitia te konohete i Amerika me Kanata), a i roto i te 2015 ka whakaatuhia e ratou te kaupapa i nga taone nui rawa atu o Uropi.

Whai muri i te Sibelius Concerto me te maha o nga rekoata moata i runga i nga tapanga Dynamic, BIS me ECM, he maha nga rekoata a Kavakos i runga i te Sony Classical, tae atu ki nga konohete violin e rima me te Mozart's Symphony No.).

I te tau 2014, i whakawhiwhia te kaiwaiata ki te Gramophone Award, ka whakaingoatia ko Artist of the Year.

I te raumati o te 2015, i uru ia ki nga huihuinga nui o te ao: "Nga whetu o nga po ma" i St. Petersburg, Verbier, Edinburgh, Annecy. I roto i ana hoa i roto i enei konohete ko te Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra me Valery Gergiev me te Academic Symphony Orchestra o te St. Petersburg Philharmonic me Yuri Temikanov, te Israel Philharmonic Orchestra me Gianandrea Noseda.

I te marama o Hune 2015, i noho a Leonidas Kavakos ki te kaiwhakawa o te whakataetae violin o te XV International Tchaikovsky Competition. PI Tchaikovsky.

Ko te wa 2015/2016 kua ki tonu i nga kaupapa marama i roto i te mahi a te kaiwaiata. I roto i enei: ko nga haerenga ki Russia (ko nga konohete i Kazan me te State Symphony Orchestra o Tatarstan i whakahaerehia e Alexander Sladkovsky me Moscow me te State Academic Symphony Orchestra o Russia i whakahaerehia e Vladimir Yurovsky); konohete i te UK me te haerenga ki Spain me te London Philharmonic Orchestra (kaiwhakahaere V. Yurovsky); e rua nga haerenga roa o nga taone nui o Amerika (Cleveland, San Francisco, Philadelphia i Noema 2015; New York, Dallas i Maehe 2016); konohete me te Bavarian Radio orchestras (na Mariss Jansons i whakahaere), te London Symphony Orchestra (Simon Rattle), te Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Vladimir Yurovsky), te Danish National Symphony Orchestra me te Orchester National de Lyon (Jukka-Pekka Saraste), te Orchestra de Paris (Paavo Järvi), te La Scala Theatre Orchestra (Daniel Harding), te Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra (Gustavo Gimeno), te Dresden Staatskapella (Robin Ticciati) me te maha atu o nga roopu rangatira i Uropi me Amerika; Ko nga whakaaturanga hei kaihautu me te kaiwaiata takitahi me te Chamber Orchestra of Europe, te Singapore Symphony Orchestra, te Philharmonic Orchestra o Radio France, te Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, te Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, te Danish National Symphony Orchestra, te Netherlands Radio Orchestra, te Rotterdam Philharmonic , te Vienna Symphony; konohete ruma, i roto i te piana Enrico Pace me Nikolai Lugansky, ka mahi i te pukoro a Gauthier Capuçon hei hoa mo te kaiwaiata.

E kaingākau nui ana a Leonidas Kavakos ki te toi hanga wairingi me te kopere (tawhito me te hou), ki te whakaaro he mea ngaro tenei toi, he mea ngaro, kaore ano kia whakatauhia tae noa ki o tatou ra. Ko ia ano te whakatangi i te violin Abergavenny Stradivarius (1724), kei a ia nga violin i hangaia e nga tohunga rangatira o naianei, me te kohinga kopere motuhake.