Viktoria Mullova

Viktoria Mullova is known the world over as a virtuosic violinist with exceptional versatility and musical integrity.  Her curiosity spans the gamut of musical development from baroque and classical right up to the most contemporary influences and improvisation.

Over the next two seasons, the Vienna Konzerthaus will also feature Viktoria in six very different concerts in recognition of her musical diversity.

As a recitalist, she regularly performs with Katia Labèque and she has recently formed a duo with the fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenout performing works by Schubert and Beethoven.  Later in the season, they will be joined by cellist Pieter Wispelwey for Trio concerts throughout Europe and she will continue her all-Bach recitals with Ottavio Dantone.   

She is also a familiar face on the international concert scene, regularly appearing with the world’s major orchestras and conductors.   In 2008/09 she performs with, among others, the Berlin Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, The Philharmonia with Paavo Jarvi and the Orchestre National de France as well as concerts with the Sydney and Melbourne symphony orchestras. 

Mullova’s extensive discography for Philips Classics has attracted many prestigious awards. In 2005 she joined the ONYX Classics label to present a series of new recordings. Her début disc, Vivaldi Concertos with Il Giardino Armonico and directed by Giovanni Antonini, won the Diapason D’Or of the Year award for 2005.   Other discs have included the Schubert Octet with the Mullova Ensemble, Recital with Katia Labèque, and Bach Sonatas with Ottavio Dantone.   She has just completed her most important recording project of her life: all of J S Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin which has been released shortly.

She studied at the Central Music School of Moscow and the Moscow Conservatoire. Her extraordinary talent captured international attention when she won first prize at the 1980 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982. Since then, she has appeared with most of the world's greatest orchestras and conductors and at the major international festivals. Viktoria either plays on her Jules Falk 1723 Stradivarius or a Guadagnini violin.