All Leonidas Kavakos articles
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BlogsKavakos and Pace take a bow in Santa Fe
Richard Linnett reports back from the opening concert of the Santa Fe Chamber Festival, which offered works by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Mozart and Franck
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax: Beethoven for Three vol.4
Three stellar artists continue their Beethoven conversation
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ReviewConcert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Philadelphia Orchestra/Fabio Luisi
Bruce Hodges hears the performance of Bent Sørensen, Brahms and Korngold at Marian Anderson Hall, Philadelphia, PA, US, on 21 February 2025
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NewsViolinist Leonidas Kavakos ‘thrown off balance’ by JD Vance booing at the Kennedy Center
The violinist responds to last week’s incident at the Kennedy Center, describing it as disruptive to his pre-performance concentration
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NewsJD Vance booed at Kennedy Center concert featuring violinist Leonidas Kavakos
US Vice President JD Vance was booed by members of the audience at the concert in Washington, D.C.
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NewsLeonidas Kavakos appointed professor of violin at the Basel Academy of Music
The Greek-born violinist will assume his new role in autumn 2025
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ReviewLeonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax: Beethoven for Three
Music-making of great warmth from long-standing friends
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VideoKavakos, Ma and Ax: a legendary trio performs Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Watch the trio of musicians perform an arrangement of the first movement from Beethoven’s epic C minor symphony
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Leonidas Kavakos on Brahms Violin Concerto, first movement
Musical imagination, measured vibrato and a sense of thematic continuity are all essential to playing this celebrated work. From June 2014
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ReviewLeonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax: Beethoven for Three
A stellar trio offers familiar Beethoven in unorthodox garb
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NewsLeonidas Kavakos inducted into the Academy of Athens
The violinist receives the honour in recognition of his work promoting classical music in Greek rural areas
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ReviewConcert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Charlotte Gardner hears the premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Second Violin Concerto at London’s Barbican on 6 January 2022
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Focus‘The most perfect music ever written’: Violinist Leonidas Kavakos on recording Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas
’Bach’s music is a reflection of life, and life is not always serious – there is also humour and dancing, and uplifting moods to counter the darker ones.’
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ReviewConcert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Yuja Wang (piano)
Bruce Hodges attends the recital performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall on 4 Noember 2021
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ReviewConcert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Tim Homfray hears a live-streamed performance from London’s LSO St Luke’s on 7 January 2021
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ArticleMajor US agency goes bust
As Covid-19 prevents artists from making money, those who represent them are feeling the pinch too
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ReviewConcert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra/John Wilson
Charlotte Gardner hears the pereformance at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 27 February 2020
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