Kopatchinskaja is an honorary member of Vienna
Bern-based violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and baritone Christian Gerhaher have been appointed honorary members of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft.
The 1913 statutes of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft, founded in the same year, already provided for the possibility of appointing honorary members. The first use was made of this in 1937, when Felix Stransky, financial officer and member of the management of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft, was appointed the first honorary member, the second being Richard Strauss in 1938.
The Moldovan-born violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja initially studied violin with Michaela Schlögl, a student of David Oistrakh. In 1989, her family emigrated to Vienna, where she continued her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. At the age of 21, she moved to the conservatory in Bern on a scholarship. She graduated there with distinction in 2000.
After serving as Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the USA from 2014 to 2018, she took over the artistic direction of Camerata Bern at the end of 2018, with whom she has since staged the projects "War and Chips" and "Time and Eternity".
