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.
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.
But 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. For her 37th birthday later this month, she will give the premiere of her first violin concerto in Berne, Switzerland.
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