2022:
- Solo: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Wernigerode Chamber Orchestra and GMD Christian Fitzner
- Solo: Beethoven Violin Concerto with the K65 Orchestra and Alexandre Clerc
- Musikfestwoche Meiringen
- “Sakura: Spring!” (SWR/Genuin) – CD nominated for the Opus Klassik
- Garden concerts in concert gardens in Basel, Lucerne, Baselland, and Schaffhausen
- Ensemble performance at Kunsthaus Aarau: Yoko Ono’s “Sky Piece for Jesus”
2021:
- Violin and dance for the installation by Olafur Eliasson at the Fondation Beyeler
- WDR: Interview for “Tonart”
- Garden concerts in Basel, Schaffhausen, Lucerne, Zurich, and more
2020:
- Pandemic: Initiation of “Garden Concerts – By and with Malwina Sosnowski.” Over 50 private concerts from Basel to Graubünden
- Solo: Violin recital at Kunstmuseum Solothurn
- Film music: Solo violin recordings for the film “972 Breakdowns – Auf dem Landweg nach New York”
- CD release: “Sakura Spring!” – Reviews by SRF, RBB, Pizzicato.lu, CD of the week on KlassikHeute.de
2019:
- Concertmaster: Project of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt
- Chamber music: Member of the Trio Schmuck ensemble, performances in 30 chamber music concert series throughout Germany
- Chamber music: Hindemith Cabinet at the Kuhhirtenturm Frankfurt
- Concertmaster: Collegium Musicuum Symphony Orchestra Basel
- CD release: “Titänli” with Graziella Contratto’s “Mythen Ensemble Orchestral”
- Marketing: Responsible for social media at the Department of Environment and Energy of the City of Basel
2018:
- Concertmaster: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim (KKO)
- Chamber music: Ensemble member (violin/viola) of SPARK – die Klassische Band (Schlosskonzerte Bruchsal, Haydn Festspiele Halle, Festival de Menton, and many more)
2017:
- Solo: German Chamber Orchestra Berlin, performed Bach’s violin concertos as concertmaster
- Blog article: Cicerone Music Publish, “New crossroads on and beyond musical paths”
2016:
- Burnout, followed by travel time in Brazil and India
- Transdisciplinary: Violin and dance at the Martinu Festtage Basel
- Transdisciplinary: Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden, performance of Pierre Boulez’s Anthèmes II for violin and live electronics with dancers from the HKB (Music & Movement department)
- Overall direction and organization: Schönberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” with Kai Wessel and Marie Heeschen at the Bern Music Festival, Zeiträume Festival Basel, SRF recording, and more
2015:
- CD release: “Pieces for 2 Violins and Piano” by Paul Juon
- Chamber music: Resonanzen Festival Sils Maria
- Solo: Zurich Chamber Orchestra, performed Hartmann’s “Concerto funèbre”
- Music education: Camerata Bern, 25 children’s concerts
- Solo: Academic Orchestra Bern, performed Lalo’s “Symphonie espagnole”
- Film music: Recording of violin music for the film “Shana – The Wolfsmusic” (SUISA Film Music Prize)
- Chamber music: Podium Festival Esslingen, project with the Bundesjungendballett and John Neumeier
2014:
- Solo: Zurich Chamber Orchestra, performed Piazzolla/Desyatnikov’s “Four Seasons”
- Solo: On tour in Colombia and Chile, performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
- Solo: Bern Chamber Orchestra, performed Bottesini’s Gran Duo Concertante
- Chamber music: Mozartfest Augsburg
- Transdisciplinary: “L’histoire du Soldat” on tour in NRW with the 1st Deutsches Stromorchester
- Until 2009:
- Solo: Basel Symphony Orchestra, performed Ravel’s “Tzigane” on a China tour and at Stadtcasino Basel with Marco Letonja
2009-2013:
- Solo: Sendai Chamber Orchestra, performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto and conducted the ensemble
- Solo: Bern Symphony Orchestra, performed Martinu’s 2nd Violin Concerto with Alexandre Janos
- Solo: Academic Orchestra Basel, performed Sibelius’ Violin Concerto with Jonathan Harrisson
- Solo: Orquestra de Budafok, performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Shlomo Mintz
- Solo: German Chamber Orchestra Berlin, performed Bach’s Violin Concertos and conducted the ensemble
- Solo: Hubermann Festival, Poland, performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
- Solo: Basel Symphony Orchestra, performed Ravel’s “Tzigane” with Marco Letonja
- Solo: Rondo Capriccioso, Orquestra della Svizzera Italiana, with Marc Kissoczy
- Solo: CD production and concerts with Collegium Musicum Basel, performed Chausson’s “Poeme” and Wieniawski’s “Faust Fantasie”
- Chamber music: Classic Express, ensemble concerts on the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s concert bus
- Concertmaster and Lead: La Follia Baroque Ensemble & Musica Antiqua Baroque Ensemble
Until 2009:
- Solo: Basel Symphony Orchestra, performed Ravel’s “Tzigane” on a China tour and at Stadtcasino Basel with Marco Letonja
- Solo: Orquestra della Svizzera Italiana, performed Rondo Capriccioso with Marc Kissoczy
Repertoire
SOLO WITH ORCHESTRA
ANTON S. ARENSKY Violin Concerto in A major
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Violin Concerto in E major, A minor Double Concerto in D minor, Triple Concerto based on BWV 1064
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 61 (1806) With an introduction and incorporating different cadenzas
GIOVANNI BOTTESSINI Gran Duo Concertante
JOHANNES BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D major
MAX BRUCH Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major, Op. 46
ERNEST CHAUSSON Poème
ANTONIN DVORAK Romance
PHILIPP GLASS Violin Concerto No. 1: American Four Seasons
KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN Concerto funèbre (1939)*
JOSEPH HAYDN Violin Concerto in C major, Violin Concerto in D major
MIECZYSLAW KARLOWICZ Violin Concerto in A major
EDOUARD LALO Symphonie espagnole, Op. 46
BOHUSLAV MARTINU Violin Concerto No. 2, H293 (1943)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART KV 217, KV 218, KV 219, Adagio KV 261 Sinfonia Concertante* KV 364, Rondos* KV 269, KV 373
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Double Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra, MWV O 4 (1823) Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14 (1838/1844)
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Astor Piazzolla, founder of Tango Nuevo, skillfully arranged and reimagined for violin and chamber orchestra by L. Desyatnikov.
ARVO PÄRT Fratres
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
MAURICE RAVEL Tzigane
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Rondo Capriccioso
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1
FRANZ SCHUBERT Konzertstück, Rondo for Violin and Strings in A major Polonaise for Violin and Orchestra in B-flat major, D 580
JEAN SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D minor, 6 Humoresques
LOUIS SPOHR Violin Concerto in A minor “Nach einer Gesangsszene”
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 1
GIUSEPPE TARTINI Devil’s Trill Sonata (arr. for chamber orchestra)
PYOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major Trois Souvenirs d’un lieu cher (Mélodie, Scherzo, Meditation)*
HENRI VIEUXTEMPS Violin Concerto No. 5
ANTONIO VIVALDI The Four Seasons, Concertos from Op. 3
HENRYK WIENIAWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2, Fantasia on Gounod’s “Faust” Theme and Variations
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Three Pieces from “Schindler’s List”
VIOLIN AND PIANO
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas
JOHANNES BRAHMS Violin Sonatas, Scherzo from the FAE Sonata
LILI BOULANGER D’un matin de printemps
ROBERT CAVANNA Étude en ré
CHE-CHIA CHEN Dance 2; Commissioned work for Malwina Sosnowski and Riccardo Bovino, Premiere: Festival de Radio France, 2008
CESAR FRANCK Violin Sonata
MASASHI HAMAUZU Four Pieces about Sakura
ARTHUR HONEGGER Violin Sonata No. 2
PAUL JUON Violin Sonatas Silhouettes, Op. 49, 7 Small Tone Poems for 2 Violins and Piano
RUDOLPH KELTERBORN Piece in 5 Parts for Violin and Piano Commissioned work for Malwina Sosnowski and Riccardo Bovino, Premiere: LES MUSEIQUES, 2012
FRITZ KREISLER Various Miniatures for Violin and Piano
LISZT/HUBAY Valse Impromptu
OLIVIER MESSIAEN Theme and Variations
JOACHIM RAFF Chromatic Sonata in One Movement, Suite, Op. 210
ERIK SATIE Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes)
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Violin Sonata No. 1, Rondo Capriccioso
PABLO DE SARASATE Habanera, Zapateado
OTHMAR SCHOECK Violin Sonata No. 2
FRANZ SCHUBERT Grand Duo in A major
CLARA SCHUMANN Romances
ROBERT SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas 1 and 2
JEAN SIBELIUS 6 Humoresques
ADAM SKOUMAL Variations on a Gipsy Melody
IGOR STRAVINSKY Divertimento, Suite Italienne (based on themes by Pergolesi)
JOSEPH SUK 4 Pieces
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI Myths, 3 Caprices for Violin and Piano (based on Paganini’s Op. 1)
GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE Sonata No. 1
PYOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY Trois Souvenirs d’un lieu cher, Valse-Scherzo
HENRYK WIENIAWSKI Faust Fantasy, Souvenir de Moscou, Theme and Variations
VIOLIN SOLO
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN Fantasias
NATHAN MILSTEIN Paganiniana
NiCCOLO PAGANINI Caprices op.1
HEINRICH WILHELM ERNST THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER
PIERRE BOULEZ ANTHÈMES POUR VIOLON ET DISPOSITIV ELECTRONIQUE
ALFRED SCHNITTKE A Paganini
HEINRICH IGNAZ BIBER Passacaglia ( Rosenkranz Sonaten)
LAURENT METTRAUX Complainte pour Violon Solo
HEINZ HOLLIGER Soli for Violin
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI Cadenza
