Julian Kainrath

The young Italian Julian Kainrath is brimming with passion. And his “violinistic lineage” is just as remarkable: from the legendary Odessa school of Pyotr Stolyarsky (David Oistrakh’s teacher), through Dora Schwarzberg, to the great Russian tradition of Oistrakh under Boris Kuschnir in Graz, all the way to the Franco-Belgian heritage of Eugène Ysaÿe, which he now continues to explore with Marc Bo uchkov at the Royal Conservatoire in Liège. Julian Kainrath comes to Gstaad with two absolute milestones of the violin repertoire, composed only months apart: Franck’s Sonata – written as a wedding gift for Ysaÿe – and Grieg’s Sonata No. 3, first performed by Adolph Brodsky, the dedicatee and original interpreter of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.