Leaving Helsinki after 2 wonderful weeks. Big congrats to Inmo Yang for winning the Sibelius Competition, and to all the fantastic laureates & finalists! What a wonderfully inspiring 2 weeks it have been, and WHAT an AMAZING level, so so…

On Sunday April 3rd ‘my’ Stift Festival together with the Wilminktheater in Enschede organized a big Ukraine Benefit concert., for which many wonderful artists and friends came together. I‘m so grateful to all the amazing  artists, and kindred spirits who…

On the last day of the Konvergencie Festival Brahms immersion, I gave a Masterclass to some very talented students, in this beautiful museum in the heat of Bratislava. Here are a couple of quite expressive snapshots :)

It was a great pleasure to return to beautiful Bratislava for 2 concert of Brahms chamber music, with great Nino Gvetadze, Maja Bogdanovic, Robert Cohen and other wonderful musicians. Thank you to Konvergencie Festival and Jozef Luptak for the great…

It was a very great pleasure to perform my beloved Alban Berg Concerto ‘to the memory of an angel’ with the excellent FORM: Filarmonica Marchigiana, conducted by fellow Berg-lover Maestro Manlio Benzi. We had the time to really work together…

It was great to be back in London after (incredibly) 2 years. I’m looking forward to coming to RCM more regularly again, and it was really nice seeing the Conchord Ensemble gang again, for a fun concert of Faure and…

I’m glad to announce this Benefit Concert ‘❤️for Ukraine’, on Sunday April 3 at 19.00, presented by the Stift Festival together with the Wilminktheater, in the Muziekcentrum Enschede. It is so incredibly heartwarming and touching that greatest, dearest Nino Gvetadze,…

It was a great pleasure to record and perform the world premieres of 2 very  beautiful, appealing &  brilliant concertos by Philip Sawyers, with the excellent English Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Kenneth Woods. With Maja we did Philip’s Double…

Thank you Joost Galema for selecting our Shostakovich cycle at Stift last summer  as one of your top three concerts of 2021! :) It was such a journey. With dear friends Maja, Joel, Tijmen, Floor, Dana, Lilli & Mikhail 🙏😍…

Let’s raise a glass to a beautiful, joyous 2022, and may it be full of live music! 🥂🎶 I have updated the concert diary for the first 3 months  of the new year – have a look, it will be…

It was wonderful to play this festive programma in the Concertgebouw on Boxing Day: Schubert’s Trout and pieces by Tchaikovsky, Piazzolla and Vladi Mendelssohn with our Ensemble 150, with dearest Maja, Lilli Anna, and Nicky Holland is in a lockdown since…

The magazine of the Concertgebouw ‘Preludium’ has a nice regular feature, ‘the instrument case of….’ And in this ‘case’ they took some pictures of my violin case and asked me some questions, such as about the Prince Frog.. :) The…

We had a wonderful time in Ljubljana, and around beautiful Slovenia with our ChamberJam Ensemble, with Marcelo, Natacha, Alberto and Zoran, who also fantastically made this tour happen. What a joy to see this gorgeous country and to spend time…

I’m so happy that tickets for the Stiftfestival, from 21-29 August are now on sale 😍 This year the festival is bigger, and more ambitious than ever, celebrating LIVE MUSIC with a colorful, adventurous, diverse, both challenging and fun programme,…

Our brand new Ensemble 150 – a collective of adventurous, like minded minds as well as great friends, was formed in the unusual year 2020 in and around the Studio 150 Bethlehemkerk in Amsterdam, where we had the chance to…

I were very happy to see this beautiful review on Bachtrack for last week’s premiere at the Concertgebouw of Roxanna Panufnik’s Songs of love and friendship, that the Stiftfestival commissioned together with AVROTROS. :)) ” Relatively  unusual was the addition…

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 :) “…

“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…

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…

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…

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! :)