Fundację Instytut Mieczysława Wajnberga założyliśmy w lutym 2020 roku.

Kierując się swoją uderzająco bezkompromisową filozofią artystyczną, Gidon Kremer zyskał światową renomę jako jeden z najbardziej oryginalnych i fascynujących artystów swojego pokolenia.

Jego repertuar obejmuje zarówno dzieła z kanonu muzyki klasycznej, jak i twórczość czołowych kompozytorów XX i XXI wieku. Jest autorem mistrzowskich interpretacji twórczości kompozytorów rosyjskich i wschodnioeuropejskich, dokonał wielu prawykonań, w tym także dzieł jemu dedykowanych.

Jego nazwisko na stałe związane jest z postaciami słynnych kompozytorów: Alfreda Schnittke, Arvo Pärta, Giya Kanchelego, Sofii Gubajduliny, Valentina Silvestrova, Luigiego Nono, Edisona Denisova, Ariberta Reimanna, Pēterisa Vasksa, Johna Adamsa, Victora Kissine, Michaelaa Nymana, Philipa Glassa, Leonida Desyatnikova oraz Astora Piazzolli, którego dzieł wykonuje w sposób szanujący tradycję, zachowując jednocześnie ich świeżość i oryginalność. Można śmiało powiedzieć, że żaden inny solista o porównywalnej międzynarodowej randze nie zrobił więcej, aby promować dzieła współczesnych kompozytorów i nową muzykę skrzypcową.

Gidon Kremer nagrał ponad 120 albumów, z których wiele otrzymało prestiżowe międzynarodowe nagrody w uznaniu wyjątkowych i niepowtarzalnych interpretacji artysty. Długa lista wyróżnień i nagród obejmuje Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis, Bundesverdienstkreuz, Moskiewski Triumf, Nagrodę Unesco oraz Una Vita Nella Musica – Nagrodę Artura Rubinsteina. W 2016 roku Gidon Kremer otrzymał nagrodę Praemium Imperiale, powszechnie uważaną za muzyczną Nagrodę Nobla.

W 1997 roku Gidon Kremer założył orkiestrę kameralną Kremerata Baltica, aby wspierać wybitnych i kształcić młodych muzyków z krajów nadbałtyckich. Zespół intensywnie koncertuje, a na jego koncie jest prawie 30 albumów dla wytwórni Nonesuch, Deutsche Grammophon czy ECM. W sezonie 2016/17 Kremerata Baltica odbyła przełomowe trasy koncertowe po Bliskim Wschodzie, Ameryce Północnej, Europie i Azji z okazji 20-lecia orkiestry.

Mało kto zrobił tak wiele dla twórczości Mieczysława Wajnberga. Kremer od lat angażuje się w przywracanie pamięci o kompozytorze i jest jednym z pierwszych artystów, którzy sięgnęli po jego utwory. W 2019 i 2021 roku Deutsche Grammophon i Accentus Music wydały albumy nagrane przez Gidona Kremera z utworami solowymi, orkiestrowymi i kameralnymi Wajnberga.

Od lutego 2022 roku Gidon Kremer jest oficjalnie Przyjacielem Instytutu Mieczysława Wajnberga.

One can hardly play the violin more expressively and uncompromisingly than Gringolts. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Harald Eggebrecht

Ilya Gringolts wins over audiences with his highly virtuosic playing and sophisticated interpretations and is always seeking out new musical challenges. As a sought-after soloist, Ilya Gringolts devotes himself to the great orchestral repertoire as well as to contemporary and rare works; he is also interested in historical performance practices. His concert programmes include virtuosic early repertoire by Leclair and Locatelli as well as Paganini’s solo and orchestral works. New works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Augusta Read Thomas, Christophe Bertrand, Bernhard Lang, Beat Furrer and Michael Jarrell have been premiered by him. In the summer of 2020, Ilya Gringolts and Ilan Volkov founded the I&I Foundation for the promotion of contemporary music, which awards commissions to young composers.

Ilya Gringolts started into the 2023/24 season with an extensive tour to Australia and New Zealand. Further collaborations this season include appearances with the Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, and Brussels Philharmonic. Committing himself to historical informed repertoire, new projects will feature concertos by Mendelssohn with La Scintilla and by Sibelius with Finnish Baroque Orchestra. He will also premiere new works by Lotta Wennäkoski, Chaya Czernowin, Boris Filanovsky and Mirela Ivicevic.

Ilya Gringolts has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Recent highlights have been joint projects with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra Rome, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin,  the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Oslo Philharmon-ic, the, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra,the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and the National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan. From his violin, he has recently conducted projects with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Camerata Bern, and Ensemble Resonanz.

For his Diapason d’Or and Gramophone Editor’s Choice Award-winning recording of Locatelli’s Il labirinto armonico (2021), Ilya Gringolts also led the Finnish Baroque Orchestra from the instrument. This was followed in the same year by the solo CD Ciaccona with works by Bach, Pauset, Gerhard, and Holliger, which also received the Gramophone Editor’s Choice Award. His extensive discography of highly acclaimed CD productions for Deutsche Grammophon, BIS, and Hyperion, among others, also includes the critically acclaimed recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin and the recording of the complete violin works of Stravinsky (2018), recorded with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia under Dima Slobodeniouk and awarded the Diapason d’Or.

As first violinist of the Gringolts Quartet, he has enjoyed great success at the Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. A highly esteemed chamber musician, Ilya Gringolts regularly collaborates with artists such as Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich, Peter Laul, Aleksandar Madzar, Christian Poltera, Lawrence Power and Jörg Widmann.

After studying violin and composition with Tatiani Liberova and Zhanneta Metallidi in St. Petersburg, he attended the Juilliard School of Music, where he studied with Itzhak Perlman. He won the International Violin Competition Premio Paganini (1998) and is still the youngest winner in the competition’s history; he was also named a BBC New Generation Artist at the outset of his career. In addition to his professor position at the Zurich University of the Arts, Ilya Gringolts was appointed to the renowned Accademia Chigiana in Siena in 2021. He plays a Stradivari (1718 “ex-Prové”) violin. 

Yulianna Avdeeva gained worldwide recognition at the 2010 Chopin Competition, where she won First Prize with a “detailed way of playing” that “matched Chopin’s own” (The Telegraph). A pianist of fiery temperament and virtuosity, Avdeeva plays with power, conviction, and sensibility, having won over audiences all over the world.

A favorite artist in Europe with recurring concert engagements at the Warsaw Philharmonic or Rudolfinum in Prague, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Yulianna has also given concerts for Ukrainian Relief, including one together with Anne-Sophie Mutter at the Lucerne Chamber Music Festival.

Her 2022-23 season begins with a Tippet Rise Festival recital in the US, followed later by a Carnegie Hall debut recital. She performs with the Vienna Symphony and after an acclaimed first collaboration in 2021 tours again with Teodor Currentzis and SWR Symphony in Munich, Hamburg and Vienna. In mid-winter she returns to Japan with concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama and Kyoto to be followed with concerto appearances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (Andris Poga), RAI National Orchestra (Juraj Valčuha), Bergen Philharmonic (Petr Popelka), Basque National Orchestra (Robert Trevino) and Camerata Salzburg (Finnegan Downie Dear). She will also perform in recitals in Leipzig, Florence, Madrid, Barcelona, Aarhus and Naples.

Among her other extensive orchestral collaborators are the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Rundfunk- Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Finnish and Danish Radio Symphonies, Czech Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Kremerata Baltica, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, KBS Symphony and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony.

A dedicated chamber musician, Yulianna has toured regularly throughout Europe with violinists Julia Fischer and Gidon Kremer, with appearances at Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Zurich, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, among others. In addition to being a regular guest at Festival Chopin Warsaw and the Festival International de Piano La Roque d’Anthéron, recent seasons have seen Avdeeva in recital at the Salzburg Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Boulez Saal, Vienna Konzerthaus, Palau de la Música Catalana, Musikfest Bremen, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival and Shostakovich Festival Saxony.

Avdeeva’s recordings of Chopin concertos with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen (2013), her 3 solo albums featuring works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, and Prokofiev (2014, 2016, 2017), and her collaboration with Gidon Kremer in Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s chamber music (2017 and 2019) comprise a formidable record of Yulianna’s art topped off by a Deutsche Grammophon (2019) solo recording as part of a milestone collection dedicated to Chopin Competition Gold Medalists.

Piano aficionados around the world also enjoy her educational online streaming project, the #AvdeevaBachProject, which she started during the lockdown gaining more than half a million views.