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Jonian Ilias Kadesha
“Hardly any other violinist plays as edgy, boldly, unconventionally and yet with such stylistic confidence and taste as Kadesha. He improvises, uses ornaments in his own way and puts everything at the service of expression.”
Jonian Ilias Kadesha is a Renaissance musician in the diversity and creativity of his intellectual interests and music-making. His studies in philosophy and rhetoric influence the stylistic accuracy of his interpretations, whether of early or contemporary music, and his rich imagination is clear both in the sound worlds he creates and the projects he curates as concerto soloist, soloist–director and chamber musician.
Kadesha has performed widely as soloist throughout Europe in concertos including Sibelius, Mozart, Shostakovich, Bartók, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, among others. His engagements include the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Sir András Schiff, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with Jonathan Bloxham, Tapiola Sinfonietta with Ryan Bancroft, and the Slovenian Philharmonic conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, as well as with Münchner Rundfunk, Royal Philharmonic, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Athens and Thessaloniki State Orchestras, Lübeck Philharmonic and Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt.
His accomplishments as a soloist-director are increasingly recognised and he collaborates frequently with leading chamber orchestras such as the Netherlands and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, Aurora Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Tapiola Sinfonietta and London Mozart Players. His approach to the classical orchestral canon is informed by his chamber music playing and he often improvises his own cadenzas and ornamentation.
Kadesha’s flair for programming is evident in his chamber music projects. He has curated a six concert series for the Leeds International Concert Season (2024–25) including regular collaborators Vashti Hunter and Pablo Hernán and the Caerus Chamber Ensemble, of which he is founder and Artistic Director, and whose flexible line-up is drawn from the younger generation of outstanding European instrumentalists.
He has also collaborated with renowned musicians such as Martha Argerich, Steven Isserlis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Nicolas Altstaedt, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Antje Weithaas. He has given recitals in venues including the Wigmore Hall, Louvre, Berlin Philharmonie and Salle Moliere Lyon. Co-founder of the award-winning Trio Gaspard, he appears regularly with the group at festivals and venues around the world and is also a member of the Kelemen Quartet.
Kadesha’s curiosity for repertoire is wide-ranging, as demonstrated by recordings he has made for Linn Records, to which he signed in 2021. His debut solo album featured Bach’s Partita in D minor alongside Helena Winkelman’s Ciaccona and works by Biber, Schnittke, Kurtág and Auerbach. His follow-up Suite Italienne with CHAARTS Chamber Orchestra, featuring Giovanni Sollima’s violin concerto TYCHE along with works by Vivaldi and Stravinsky, received outstanding five-star reviews applauding his “boundless imagination of sound” (Musica), his “stylistic confidence and taste” (rbbKultur) and declaring him “one of the most eccentric and fascinating violinists on the international scene” (Musica).
Born in Athens of Albanian and Greek heritage, Kadesha studied from a young age at Musikhochschule Wurzburg, followed by Kronberg Academy, where he completed his Masters in 2020. He has studied with Antje Weithaas, Salvatore Accardo, Grigori Zhislin and Ulf Wallin, and has taken part in masterclasses with Ferenc Rados, Steven Isserlis, Ivry Gitlis, Leonidas Kavakos and Eberhard Feltz. He studied chamber music with Hatto Beyerle in Hannover.
Kadesha plays the Guarneri del Gesù 1743 “ex-Moser”, kindly on loan from the Princess Collection.
Season 2025/2026 | Photo: Kaupo Kikkas | Quote: rbbKultur, March 7th 2024
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23 August 2023
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17 August 2023
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1 September 2025
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20 May 2025
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11 February 2025
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10 December 2024
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Recitals with Jonian Ilias Kadesha
26 September 2024
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10 May 2024
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2 April 2024
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9 February 2024
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18 January 2024
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23 August 2023
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17 August 2023
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11 April 2023
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20 January 2023
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4 November 2022
After the great concert yesterday, there is another opportunity to enjoy Jonian Ilias Kadesha at the Landestheater Eisenach tonight at 8 pm. Conducted by Markus Huber, he plays […]
Jonian Ilias Kadesha at Beethovenfest Bonn
15 September 2022
Jonian Ilias Kadesha will be performing with the British Aurora Orchestra at the Beethovenfest Bonn tomorrow evening. The exciting concert, in which he will play solo violin as […]
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15 July 2022
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14 June 2022
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24 February 2021
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24 July 2020
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Schubert: Piano trio in E-flat major op. 100 – Trio Gaspard
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G. Enescu: Sonata No. 3 in A minor op. 25 – Jonian Ilias Kadesha & Noam Greenberg
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