Patricia Kopatchinskaja is accomplishing something that some classical music traditionalists likely thought impossible: She’s making the music of Arnold Schoenberg fun. We’re talking about a composer ...

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit ...

Simply referring to Moldovan Austrian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Russian pianist Polina Leschenko as musicians falls short of the mark. Forces of nature, laws unto themselves or iconoclasts ...

One generally knows what to expect at a chamber music performance, especially if the repertoire is (even to a small degree) familiar. But hearing violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and pianist Polina ...

Patricia Kopatchinskaja blew into Salt Lake City this week, dazzling two decidedly different audiences in two markedly different venues. The main event came Friday in Abravanel Hall, where the ...

Patricia Kopatchinskaja is one of the world’s great violinists — bold and daring while other musicians are cautious and bound by tradition — but she had never performed in Los Angeles until April 2019 ...

Her Seattle Symphony debut drew blood. In April 2016, when Patricia Kopatchinskaja reached the final movement of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, her violin’s shoulder rest came loose. The screw ...

Well, our secret’s out. For a few years now, those who frequent St. Paul Chamber Orchestra concerts have known that the most exciting, entertaining and surprising musical experiences come when ...

Patricia Kopatchinskaja has to be one of the most exciting performers in the world right now. On Tuesday at Hahn Hall, the Moldovan violinist and her recital partner pianist Polina Leschenko delivered ...