Violinist Leonidas Kavakos has been awarded two prestigious prizes in Holland and Germany this autumn:
On 6 November, he received the VSCD (Vereniging van Schouwburg- en Concertgebouwdirecties) Classical Musical Award 2009 in Rotterdam, Netherlands in the category "Individual Achievements", for his performance of Brahms' violin concerto together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Jury members include Anneke Hogenstijn and Jan Raes from the Concertgebouw, Yvonne van den Berg and Frank Veenstra, music programmers from Groningen and Eindhoven, as well as journalists Kees Vlaardingerbroek (Radio 4) and Mischa Spel (NRC Handelsblad). Other nominees in this category were conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, tenor Marco Beasly, and pianist Menahem Pressler.
Kavakos was also awarded the ECHO klassik 2009, Germany's equivalent to the Grammy, for his recording of Mendelssohn's violin concerto and piano trios for Sony Classical (Camerata Salzburg, Patrick Demenga, Enrico Pace).
Kavakos has just returned from concerts in Philadelphia, Houston and Seattle and will now proceed to the NDR Symphony Orchestra for three performances in Hamburg and Lübeck (14/15/16 November), a six-day Southbank Centre residency in London (25 November-1 December) in which he hopes to reveal to audiences his concept of Source, “the well-spring of inspiration that lies at the heart of all great music”, and to the Berlin Philharmonic (4-6 December).
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