Viktoria Mullova

Viktoria Mullova Yurievna ( English transcription; Russian Виктория Юрьевна Муллова, German transcription Viktoriya Yuryevna Mullowa; born November 27, 1959 in Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast ) is one of the most significant violinists of our time.

Life

Viktoria Mullova studied at the Moscow Central School of Music in the principal instrument violin and continued her studies with Leonid Kogan at the Moscow Conservatoire. International attention she received when she in Helsinki won the Sibelius competition in 1980. At the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982, she received the gold medal. Viktoria Mullova fled in 1983 from the Soviet Union by fled on tour in Finland with the Finnish journalists Jyrki Koulumies in the car to Sweden, where they nachsuchte for political asylum. Four days later she was on a visa in the U.S.. Yet they first moved to Canada and later in the United States, where she began her international career. In 1994 she founded her own Mullova Ensemble.

Mullova appeared as soloist with almost every major orchestra. She plays the " Jules Falk " Stradivarius (1723 ); for the baroque, classical and early romantic repertoire, she plays a Guadagnini related with gut strings.

Family

Mullova lives in London and is married to the avant-garde cellist Matthew Barley, with whom she has a daughter Nadia. Two other children from other relationships; a daughter Katia by the violinist Alan Brind and bassist Misha Mullov Abbado by the conductor Claudio Abbado.

Discography

Filmography

• Between perfection and freedom. The violinist Viktoria Mullova. Documentary, Germany, 2004, 52 min, Director: Claudia Willke, Production: RBB, SWR, Original Air Date: June 18, 2005 arte, Summary of arte, movie data.