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I’m SO looking forward to this!!!!😍😍 Composer Maxim Shalygin writes: Humanity has reached the 21st century, but have we approached the understanding of the divine, have we established harmony with the world? The theme Song of the Earth of the…
What a special, moving, and unforgettable evening…. Thank you dearest Nino & Delft Chamber Music Festival! 🙏 Vlady ❤️💫 “ Gisterenavond brachten we een eerbetoon aan Vladimir ‘Vlady’ Mendelssohn: een goede vriend van vele musici op het podium. Na het…
Looking hugely forward to playing beloved Distant light this afternoon with this great gang at the great Valdres sommersymfoni – festivalen. Inspiring and memorable to spend these days here together, surrounded by nature, friends and good vibes. It’s wonderful to…
What a night yesterday at Artscape! It was wonderful to play Brahms with Maja with great Bernhard Gueller and the wonderful Cape Town Philharmonic sounding absolutely brIlliant! The Gala was to mark the return to live concerts for full halls…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On 17 and 18 Demember we had 2 days of fun and intensive reghearsals for our concert at the beautiful Kleine Zaal of the Concertgebouw. Rachel Roberts, the fantastic English viola player came over to Amsterdam, and we very much…
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 :) “…
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