Patricia Kopatchinskaja Returns to Hahn Hall
Arts & Lectures Presents String Duo at Music Academy of the West
UCSB Arts & Lectures does so much so well it’s easy to get lost in the volume and range of their programming. However, once in a while something comes along that’s so extraordinary it demands special attention, and Saturday night, January 25, when violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall for a string duo recital with cellist Jay Campbell, is one of those things.
Kopatchinskaja made her West Coast recital debut in this same venue for A&L last season, following a triumphant, mind-blowing turn as director of the Ojai Music Festival in 2018. Born in Moldova to musical parents, she trained in Vienna and Bern, Switzerland, before unleashing her startlingly fresh and intense musical vision on an unsuspecting world.