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…

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…

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…

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 in Joensuu, Finland doing the Vivaldi & Piazzolla Seasons. It’s a great pleasure again to be playing this always exciting programme, tomorrow here at the excellent Karelia Hall and tomorrow in Kuhmo, one of my favorite places! Here’s an…

  A nice review of the Shostakovich Cycle in the most recent BBC Music Magazine. 

Here’s a nice article about my recent soloist/director performance with Son, in Southampton. This was an extremely enjoyable evening!http://www.thesonproject.com/8-seasons-standing-ovation

I’m delighted to be have just joined RIAM, The Royal Irish Academie of Music as an International Visting Artist. I very much enjoyed my first visit this week including a performance on RTE Radio and am looking forward to my…

Great review in the NRC Handelsblad about the Shostakowitch Quartet cycle in Amsterdam  ‘Led by the fabulously well playing primarius Daniel Rowland who’s bow lost many hairs because of his fiery playing the quartet sounded touching and intense’ 

I’m happy that the recording I made with my friend Alberto Mesirca, the fantastic Italian guitarist, was released by the Austrian label Orlando Records on the last day on last year. We did the recordings in Vienna last January and…

It was such a joy to perform one of my favourite pieces since childhood, the gorgeous Chausson Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet with a perfect group of players at Stift a few months ago. I recently got the…

I’m delighted that the ‘Les années folles’ CD with Natacha Kudritskaya is now available everywhere on Itunes, Amazon and Apple music. This CD focusses on wild and crazy years in Paris in the 20’s and 30’s, with three important sonatas:…

It was wonderful to perform the premiere of Marcelo Nisinman’s ‘Daniel’s Tango’ at the Stift Festival in August. Marcelo says: “The piece is dedicated to Daniel, a portrait of himself I imagined. A barbarian-tango-love piece.” This brilliant, hilarious, touching, totally imaginative…

I’m looking forward to some fun and diverse concerts this autumn: first I’m off to Poland, directing the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra in Sczecin, then I’m greatly looking forward to performing by beloved Korngold Concerto with HET Symfonieorkest in Enschede at the end…