Leonidas Kavakos
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Stravinsky, Bach
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Film & TV
Athen
Known for
- Vienna Philharmonic: The Exclusive Subscription Concert Series – Leonidas Kavakos & Herbert Blomstedt — Self - Violin2024
- Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2022 - Tschaikowsky und Dvořák — Violine2022
- Presences Festival 2023 Bach / Lacôte / Chin / Robin2021
- London Symphony Orchestra: Ravel2017
- Europakonzert 2015 from Athens — Himself2015
- The Mariinsky II Opening Gala — Self2015
- Europakonzert 2005 from Budapest — Violin2005
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Greece
- Active from
- 1967-10-30
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Discography
- Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio
- Debut Recording1990
- Six Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra / Rakastava / Pelléas et Mélisande1990
- Violin Concerto in D minor, Original and Final Version1991
- Leonidas Kavakos Plays Debussy, Kreisler, Paganini, Schubert, Tchaïkovsky, Wieniawski & more1992
- 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 271999
- Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra2001
- Concert Music for Strings and Bass / Violin Concerto / Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria Von Weber2001
- Ravel: Sonate posthume / Tzigane / Enescu: Impressions d’enfance / Sonata no. 32003
- Viennese Rhapsody2004
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Born in Athens into a musical family, Kavakos began studying violin at five years old and continued his studies at the Hellenic Conservatory 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, at age 18 (the youngest contestant), he won the International Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and in 1986 won silver medal in the Indianapolis Internatio
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Occupation
- conductor
- Educated at
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Languages spoken
- Modern Greek
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- violin
- Record label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Image
- Leonidas Kavakos (2008) crop.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1967-10-30
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- Leonidas Kavakos
- name in native language
- Λεωνίδας Καβάκος
- social media followers
- 5000
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