That was quite a weekend! What a total joy to premiere Roxanna Panufnik’s gorgeously fantastical, evocative and extatic ‘Songs of love and friendship’, commissioned by AVROTROS and ‘my’ Stiftfestival, at the Concertgebouw yesterday with the incredible Groot Omroepkoor conducted by…
It was eally exciting to play last week Maxim Shalygin’s wildly original & colorful Violin Concerto, for violin and 114 percussion instruments (!) with the terrific Shapeshift Ensemble with the composer conducting! Thank you ClassicalNOW and Konstantyn Napolov for making…
It’s so exciting to see that live music making music a resuming again after more than a year, and to see that this summer is filling up with concerts and festivals. From all the cancellations to suddenly very busy again!…
It is so wonderful to be playing for larger, live audiences again! A thrilling feeling to walk onto stage again, and to feel the energy of a live public :):) We celebrated this with 2 very exciting concerts with our…
Very happy with another very nice review for our ‘French connection’ disc, this time in BBC Music Magazine 🙏 One of the most remarkable French chamber works is also among the hardest toprogramme. Full of ardent lyricism, Chausson’s Concert for…
I’m very happy to read the very warm reviews for ‘A French connection’, the recent Chausson-Debussy-Franck disc that Natacha and I made for Champs Hill Records. We adore these pieces and it’s wonderful to read the enthousiastic reactions :) “…
What a joy it was to play with my dearest Marcelo, Natacha, Alberto and Zoran on great TV show Podium Witteman last week. We have been playing together for over 10 years now, and the feeling on stage together is…
It was wonderful to play with Maja last month is the Empty Concertgebouw sessions. This incredible hall should of course be full, but it was magical to play this very personal programme here 🙏
“Daniel Rowland and Natacha Kudritskaya prove to be the perfect partnership” – BBC Music Magazine 🎶🎻 Daniel Rowland – violin and Natacha Kudritskaya’s first release with us (CHRCD120) was critically acclaimed. We are thrilled that they are back with a…
I’m extremely happy that the SME, Stift Musical Encounters, that had to be cancelled last year, will be happening this year, from 4-9 May! A mix of individual lessons and intensive side-by-side chamber music with the great international faculty, over…
The great Kuhmo festival had to be cancelled last year but is happening this year, in July. Looking forward to the incomparable atmosphere, white nights, lake-views and sunsets. Here‘s the official festival announcement 🤗 The picture was teken in Kuhmo…
It’s always an exciting moment when a new CD arrives on the doormat and I’m super happy that this recording, made at wonderful Champs Hill in October 2018, with greatest partners in crime Natacha, Francesco, Asia, Joël & Maja, will…
Just after Christmas Daniel & Maja got together for TV programme Podium Witteman with good friends Tim Brackman & Floor Le Coultre (violins), Benjamin Roskams (viola) and Nicky Schwartz (bass). In beach pavilion ‘Parnassia’ on the Dutch seaside we performed…
Farewell dearest, attitude and altitude changing, magnetic, madly inspiring, wise, hilarious, impossible and endlessly lovable, magically genius Ivry – the ultimate free spirit, immense virtuoso, life changer…I am so lucky to have known you these last 25 years, from the…
What a perfect start to the new year this was – impossible to imagine more fun, warmhearted & inspiring days and loveliest, bubbliest team 🍀😍🍾 It still feels almost unreal that we were able to do this, and HUGE thanks…
Here’s the musical Christmas greetings that Maja & I did from Stift to our great friends at the one and only Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival with music by Vasks & Sibelius 🙂 it was fun filming this at Stift last…
After we had to cancel this years Stift Midwinterfestival I’m really happy & excited that it will now happen online! “New Years Festival from Studio 150” joining forces with our friends at innovative concert promoter Classical Now in The Hague,…
We just spotted this very nice review of Daniel’s ‘Distant light’ CD in The Strad. Recorded live at the Stiftfestival 2019 in the presence of composer Peteris Vasks, this ‘hommage to Vasks’ is available worldwide on Challenge Records.
I‘m excited to be playing with wonderful Nino Gvetadze in the glorious Grote Zaal of the Concertgebouw on Sunday 29 November. No audience allowed, sadly, but the concert will be broadcast live. Here‘s the Full programme , with the great…
I’m looking forward to this Concert in Utrecht with the wonderful Dutch Radio Choir. I‘ll be playing Thin Air by Caliope Tsoupaki, a beautiful and emotional piece about compassion and connection in this year 2020. You can hear it live on NPO…
Here‘s a little advance news: Natacha Kudritskaya and I are looking forward to the release of our next CD, on Champs Hill records, in February – watch this space for more news! :)
Here’s a very atmospheric video made by Valentine Laout at Challenge of the rehearsals for our Distant Light CD, with Peteris Vasks present in the Plechelmus Basiliek in Oldenzaal, at the Stiftfestival 2019
Here‘s a cool video made by Valentine Laout at Challenge, for our recent CD release ‚Pas de deux‘, with 5 world premiere recordings and the great Ravel Duo, here played on the roofs of Amsterdam!
Here‘s the release movie for the ‚Distant light‘ CD that I had the huge joy to record in August 2019, live at the Stiftfestival, with Peteris Vasks very much involved in the rehearsals and recording process. This was an inspirational…
It was great fun talking about the magic of Korngold on great Dutch live TV show Podium Witteman yesterday, and performing his gorgeous Marieta’s Lied. There’s nothing quite like Korngold and I could talk about his glorious and unique music…
It is a great pleasure to announce the first edition of the Stift Musical Encounters (SME), which will be held from 11-16 April this year in and around the hub of the Stift Festival, beautiful Stift in Weerselo, Holland. The…
Here‘s a video of Peteris Vasks Distant light, once of my favorite pieces, beautifully filmed by Balazs Borocs and Miklos Vali at the Stift Festival. This pieces evokes such a strong atmosphere, and is with its changing moods, from serene…
Dear friends, After 12 happy years as first violinist of the Brodsky Quartet I feel the moment has come to make more time for my individual musical adventures, and I’ll be playing my last Brodsky concert in May. The first concert I…
Just before Christmas Maja and I had the pleasure of appearing of Dutch TV show Podium Witteman. This was a lovely experience :) Here‘s a part of Vasks beautiful Castillo Interior that we performed. https://vimeo.com/317237556
This where 2 exciting weeks in the US, returning to my friends in the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and my first visit to the Columbus Symphony, both under the direction of the wonderful Rossen Milanov. This West Side Story Phantasy is amazing,…
An annual highlight is the one and only Kuhmo Festival. Far away from the rest of the world ‚Planet Kuhmo‘ is a magical place where music can fly freely! This year highlights where the Glass Seasons with a super-delux orchestra,…
Is there any better, more transcendental, more affecting music than the late Beethoven quartets? Recording these – the endlessly touching Cavatina, the ravishing ‚Heilige Dankgesang‘, the brilliant madness of the Grosse Fuge and the towering, mindblowing 131 – over 9…
A joy working this week on the always exciting and vibrant Vivaldi and Piazzolla Seasons with the terrific students at RIAM – and a treat to perform in the beautiful National Gallery of Ireland, surrounded by old masters :)
I had so much fun performing the beautiful Glass American Seasons with the Orchestre de Picardie on tour in the north of France, including lovely Amiens. A pleasure working with conductor Nickolas Milton and this excellent orchestra! And on a…
I’m happy to announce my Masterclasses in Summer ‘18: 7-12 July: CMA Ossiach. (Austria) Masterclasses in Carinthian Music Academy, in beautiful Schloss Ossiach, on the lake: More info 6-13 August : Cividale (Italy) Intensive masterclasses and performance opportunities in lovely Cividale. Other teachers in same…
At the Stift Festival 2016 the dream team Pilvax & Oberyn, Balazs Borocz & Miklos Vali made a number of concert videos, including this one of Enescu’s Imprsession’s d’enfance. I love this deeply personal, mercurial, both nostalgic and blazingly imaginative…
What a pleasure it was last week to play for the first time Magnus Lindberg’s Violin Concerto no 1. Scored for ‘just’ strings, oboes, bassoons and horns, Lindberg creates an incredible sound world, full of color, drama and contrasts! Joensuu…
I’m happy to be back in Romania for the always festive, colorful and inspiring SoNoRo festival. After Bucharest (performing at the gorgeous Atheneum was a particular pleasure) we are now in beautiful Timisoara and from tomorrow 4 days in Cluj.
Dear Ivry was in Amsterdam this weekend for an appearance on TV show Podium Witteman, a prime time weekly show dedicated to music and the arts. Host Paul Witteman interviewed Ivry and me and at the end I had the…
The annual Prinsengrachtconcert is a unique and tremendously exciting event held on the Prinsengracht with many thousands of people listening on boats on the canal, and it’s broadcast live on Dutch AVROTROS TV. It was thrilling to be a part…
In late August this year I was very happy to be part of the famous Prinsengrachtconcert, on the canal with that name in the heart of Amsterdam. This a little ducumentary made by Dutch AVROTROS TV in the lead up…
I’m happy that the second ‘direct to disc’ vinyl recording we did with the ChamberJam quintet has now been released. Recorded live in the beautiful Emil Berliner Studio’s in Berlin this records features music by Piazzolla and Nisinman that’s close…
A superb review in Fanfare for Daniel’s Enescu disc: ” With a blockbuster performance of third sonata, a strong-minded one of the second, and an almost expresssionistic one of the Impressions, all in recorded sound that’s sensitive to both tonal and…
‘Magnificent chamber music of the highest level’ Sometimes a reviewer spots a CD that simply may not go unnoticed… a recording one can impossibly switch off. The interplay between the artist is magnificent. This is chamber music of the highest level’ Magistrale…
I’m delighted with this lovely review that just appeared in Gramophone about the new Enescu disc with Natacha: ” The piano ripples over the opening phrase of the Third Sonata, the violin gives a yearning, wavering cry and immediately we’re in…