Current and Past News
I’m delighted to announce the 2nd edition of the Stift Musical Encounters, April 28-May 3. Applications are now open for these 6 days of individual masterclasses, chamber music coaching and side-by-side performances with the international faculty Thorsten Johanns, Maja Bogdanovic, Juliana Steinbach, Anthony Hewitt,…
This coming weekend I travel to Leiden for a solo violin recital at the Stadsgehoorzaal, consisting of some of the most incredible and also demanding pieces in the violin repertoire: Solo violin pieces by Bach, Biber, Ysaye, Glass, Berio and…
I recently returned from Buenos Aires where I gave the very first performance in Mexico of the Michel van der Aa Violin Concerto. https://www.facebook.com/daniel.rowland.7/videos/10159227213378378/ Extract from the end of the first movemement, taken during the rehearsal. It was a real joy…
On Friday 4th October, Daniel Rowland performed Rogowski’s violin concerto with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, as part of the Stradun Classic Festival. The concert took place at the Rector’s Palace in Dubrovnik, under the baton of Darrel Ang, and was the premiere performance of…
Daniel Rowland’s performance of Elgar’s Violin Sonata with Martin Roscoe will feature as part of a broadcast on BBC Radio 3 tomorrow evening (7th May) at 7.30pm. The broadcast will be of a concert that took place last Thursday in the Forum…
On Sunday 28th April, Daniel Rowland visits the National Gallery of Ireland for a chamber music concert organised by the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He will be performing in his capacity as International Visiting Artist at RIAM alongside other members of the faculty…
April 2019 will see the first edition of Stift Music Encounters, a residential course in solo and chamber performance taking place in and around Stift in Weerselo, Holland. This six-day course has been formed as an extension of the annual Stiftfestival, which…
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…
” Daniel Rowland and Natacha Kudritskaya prove to be the perfect partnership and give an exquisite performance of music by Enescu.” Highly recommended 5 *
Watch Daniel speaking with Dutch TV personality Paul Witteman and performing some Shostakowitch. NTR Television, October ’16
I’m happy to announce the Stift Festival Winter concerts on December 29. Romantic favorites performed by a wonderful, international line-up of artists in the perfectly atmospheric setting of the 15th century Stiftkerk. And we will go to Osnabrück to perform…
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.
This interview in Classical Music Magazine focusses on my various current recording projects of repertoire that’s close to my heart: from Enescu, Shostakovich, Ravel, Poulenc and Korngold.
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…
I’m excited that the Enescu record for wonderful Champs Hill Records with Natacha will be released in early November! This is one of my favorite composers, what hugely imaginative, generous, brilliant, colorful, evocative and exiting music!
Flying back to Europe after 2 wonderful weeks touring New Zealand for fantastic Chamber Music New Zealand, with the London Conchord Ensemble gang. Some great repertoire: Schoenberg/Webern Chamber Symphony, Debussy/Beamish La Mer, Brahms Horn Trio, Stravinsky Soldiers Tale, Debussy Sonata..touring…
I’m in Princeton, New Jersey and very much lookwhaying forward to perform the always exiting Eight Seasons tonight at gorgeous Richardson Hal. What a beautiful setting and great orchestra ! :)
It was wonderful to be on stage at the beautiful Theatro Academico in Castelfranco with all these good friends. It was also a great excuse to celebrate the one and only Alberto, who got married a few days before! ✨🎈
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…