Patricia Kopatchinskaja was born in Moldova, the wine-growing country between Roumania and the Ukraine. Both parents are musicians. She studied composition and violin in Vienna and Bern. 2000 she won the International Szeryng-Competition in Mexico, in 2002 the prestigious "International Credit Suisse Group Young Artist Award" and in 2004 the "New Talent - SPP Award" of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Patricia Kopatchinskaja was soloist e.g. with Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, SWR-Radiosymphonieorchester Stuttgart, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bergen Philharmonic, Hungarian National Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, American Symphony Orchestra New York. Conductors included Andrey Boreyko, Roy Goodman, Jürg Henneberger, Philippe Herreweghe, Mariss Jansons, Andrew Litton, Kirill Petrenko, Josep Pons, Heinrich Schiff, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. In the near future she will debut with Wiener Symphoniker (Fedoseyev), Finnish radio symphony orchestra (Sakari Oramo) and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. She appeared in important concert halls: Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center New York, Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall London, Musikverein Wien, Mozarteum Salzburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Suntory Hall Tokyo. Invitations to festivals are numerous, to mention but a few: Lucerne Festival, Menuhin-Festival Gstaad, Salzburger Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Lockenhaus Festival, Styriarte, Klangspuren Schwaz, Bregenzer Festspiele, Heidelberger Frühling, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, Kuhmo Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival etc. Since 2003 she organizes the international chamber music festival "Rüttihubeliade" after Christmas in the Emmental, Switzerland. Prominent chamber music partners include the pianists Konstantin Lifschitz, Alexei Lubimov, Henri Sigfridsson, Mihaela Ursuleasa, the violinist Hansheinz Schneeberger, the cellists Thomas Demenga, Sol Gabetta, Quirine Viersen, Peter Wispelwey, the singers Angela Gheorghiu und Anna Maria Pammer. The trio Sigfridsson-Kopatchinskaja-Gabetta appears regularly. Patricia Kopatchinskaja likes contemporary music. During the year 2004 she gave seven first performances, e.g. new violin concertos written for her by Johanna Doderer and the Viennese avantgardist Otto Zykan and in 2005/6 follow the new violin concertos of Gerald Resch and Gerd Kühr with the RSO Radiosymphonieorchester Vienna. Pieces were dedicated to her by Richard Carrick, Violeta Dinescu, Michalis Economou, Ludwig Nussbichler, Ivan Sokolov, Boris Yoffe, Patrick de Clerck and many others. Patricia composes occasionally herself and likes to improvise solo or with others (e.g. Barry Guy or Mahmoud Turkmani). CD-recordings document contemporary works by Johanna Doderer, Dmitri Smirnov and Nikolai Korndorf.