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Sibelius Competition Jury

Sibelius Competition Jury

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…

Ukraine Benefit concert

Ukraine Benefit concert

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…

Ukraine Benefit

Ukraine Benefit

The Strad posted this nice article about our Ukraine Benefit concert on April 3. I‘m so grateful to all the amazing  artists, and kindred spirits who took part,  many with deeply personal connection to Ukraine, from international soloists to brilliant…

Masterclass in Bratislava

Masterclass in Bratislava

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 :)

Brahms in Bratislava

Brahms in Bratislava

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…

Berg with Filarmonica Marchigiana

Berg with Filarmonica Marchigiana

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…

Conchord concert in London

Conchord concert in London

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…

April 3 Ukraine Benefit concert

April 3 Ukraine Benefit concert

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,…

3 mini concertos in Transsylvanië

3 mini concertos in Transsylvanië

It was a joy to travel to Targu Mures in beautiful Transylvania to perform 3 ‘mini concertos’ with the excellent State Symphony Orchestra conducted by my friends Vlad Maistorovici. We performed Vlad’s colorful Concerto Transylvania, Mark Anthony Turnage’s lyrical Rumanian…

Shosta Cycle selected by NRC

Shosta Cycle selected by NRC

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 🙏😍…

Happy new year!

Happy new year!

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…

Concertgebouw Christmas Concert

Concertgebouw Christmas Concert

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…

A look in my violin case…

A look in my violin case…

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…

Slovenian ChamberJam tour

Slovenian ChamberJam tour

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…

The Stiftfestival 2021

The Stiftfestival 2021

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,…

Ensemble 150 Amsterdam debut

Ensemble 150 Amsterdam debut

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…

Wonderful Roxanna Panufnik review

Wonderful Roxanna Panufnik review

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…

Roxanna Panufnik premiere at Concertgebouw

Roxanna Panufnik premiere at Concertgebouw

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…

Maxim Shalygin Concerto

Maxim Shalygin Concerto

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…

Concerts are starting again!

Concerts are starting again!

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!…

BBC Music Magazine review

BBC Music Magazine review

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…

Tango Quintet on Podium Witteman

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…

Empty Concertgebouw sessions

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…

Stift Musical Encounters, May 2021

Stift Musical Encounters, May 2021

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…

Kuhmo Festival

Kuhmo Festival

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…

‘A French connection’ CD release’

‘A French connection’ CD release’

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…

Lonely angel on Podium Witteman

Lonely angel on Podium Witteman

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…

In memoriam Ivry Gitlis

In memoriam Ivry Gitlis

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…

Impressions of New Year’s Festival

Impressions of New Year’s Festival

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…

New Year’s Festival from Studio 150

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,…

Strad review for ‘Distant light’

Strad review for ‘Distant light’

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.

Elgar and MacMillan at the Concertgebouw

Elgar and MacMillan at the Concertgebouw

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…

Tsoupaki ‚Thin Air‘ in Utrecht

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…

Lonely angel teaser

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

Pas de deux video

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!

Vasks CD Movie

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…

Podium Witteman

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…

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