Daniel Lozakovitj (Violin soloist)
Daniel Lozakovitj was born in April 2001 and began playing the violin in
2007, making his concerto debut with the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and
Vladimir Spivakov two years later. He has already performed as a soloist
throughout Europe with orchestras including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic,
Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, Stockholm
Royal Court, Gävle Symphony, Brussels Chamber Orchestra, and Stockholm
Sinfonietta. Recently, Daniel Lozakovitj made his debuts with Leonard Slatkin
and the Orchestre National de Lyon, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic, Okko Kamu and the Norrköping Symphony, the Orchestre de la Suisse
Romande, and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. He also performed the Bach
Concerto for Two Violins with Shlomo Mintz and the Cameristi della Scala and
Daniel Cohen at the Crans-Montana Classics 2016 New Year’s Concert, and recently
returned to the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra to perform the Beethoven Violin
Concerto for the closing concert of the 2016 Moscow Easter Festival with Valery
Gergiev.
Daniel Lozakovitj has a love of chamber music and has enjoyed collaborations
with, among others, Maxim Vengerov and Ivry Gitlis. In September 2015, he
recorded a selection of Bartók’s Violin Duos with Daniel Hope for Deutsche
Grammophon, having previously performed together on ARTE’s Concert television
programme.
Daniel Lozakovitj is a regular performer at the Verbier Festival, most
recently in a chamber music concert with Martin Fröst and Julien Quentin. He
returns in 2016 for a solo recital, chamber music with Daniel Hope, and a
performance with the Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra and Dimo Slobodeniouk.
Daniel Lozakovitj has performed at many international music festivals, including
the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, Carinthian Summer Music Festival in
Austria, Musica Mundi in Belgium, Moscow Meets Friends, Copenhagen Summer
Festival, the Yuri Bashmet International Festival in Minsk, the International
Mstislav Rostropovich Festival in Baku, and the Sommets musicaux de Gstaad,
where he returned in February 2016 to perform both the Bach Concerto in A minor
BWV 1041 and Concerto for two violins BWV 1043 with Renaud Capuçon and the
Lucerne Strings. He also made his chamber music debut at the Aix en Provence
Festival de Pâques with Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili, and others.
Future engagements include Rotterdam Prokofiev festival and the Munich
Philharmonic Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, a return to the Royal Stockholm
Philharmonic with Semyon Bychkov, the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood
with Andris Nelsons, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Swedish Radio Symphony,
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin, Orchestra
Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai Torino, Orchestre National du Capitole de
Toulouse, Gothenburg Symphony, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and the
National Philharmonic of Russia at the Colmar Festival. In 2017, Carnegie Hall
will also present Daniel Lozakovitj in his New York recital debut.
Daniel has been awarded numerous international prizes including the first
prize at the 2016 Vladimir Spivakov International Violin Competition, both the
1st Prize and the Grand Prix at the 2012 EMCY international music competition,
Ohrid PEARLS, Macedonia; 1st Prize at the 2010 International Music Competition
in Stockholm; 1st Prize at the 2010 Bravo International Violin Competition in
Belgium; 1st Prize and the Gulda Nutcracker at the 12th Nutcracker International
Television Contest for Young Musicians in Moscow, 2011; Winner of the 2012
Stockholm Solna Music Award; 2nd Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International
Competition for Young Violinists, Austin, USA 2014, and the 2015 Manfred Grommek
Prize from Kronberg Academy. Daniel Lozakovitj won three prestigious awards: the
Viennese Classics, String Soloists, and Best Interpretation of Sarasate ‘Gypsy
Airs’ at the 2014 International Summer Academy of the University of Music and
Performing Arts, Vienna.
Daniel Lozakovitj lives in Stockholm and studies with Professor Josef Rissin
at the Karlsruhe University of Music. Since September 2015 he has been coached
by Eduard Wulfson.
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