“It might be not very realistically written music, it’s a utopia,” Kopatchinskaja who has a penetrating gaze and is as spontaneous in an interview as she is in her concerts, told Reuters over coffee and biscuits at a London hotel. Her death affected Kopatchinskaja so deeply that she said she got carried away composing the music and is not sure she can play it.

It is dedicated to a friend, the Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa, who died suddenly a year and a half ago at the age of 33. For her 37th birthday later this month, she will give the premiere of her first violin concerto in Berne, Switzerland. The stunning performance of Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos’s 2006 concerto “seven” - so named for the seven astronauts who died in the 2003 disaster - was last year’s Gramophone magazine recording of the year.īut performing a piece that at times seems to require the violin to disintegrate along with the shuttle is not enough for the restless and questing Kopatchinskaja. LONDON (Reuters) - Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has already applied her virtuosity to a musical depiction of the Columbia shuttle disaster, down to the sounds of the rockets blasting the doomed craft into space and its disintegration on re-entry.

Defender of time violin music sheet