Alexandre Kantorow & Daniel Lozakovich Recital

Mr Kantorow began performing professionally at an early age, making his debut at the La Folle Journée festival in Nantes at just 16 years of age. Since then, he has played with many of the world’s major orchestras, including regular appearances with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev. Highlights in the coming season include concerts with the Orchestre de Paris, Staatskappelle Berlin, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, as well as tours with the Orchestre National de Toulouse, Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic.

He has performed solo recitals at major concert halls across Europe, such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in their Master Pianists series, the Konzerthaus Berlin, Philharmonie de Paris, BOZAR in Brussels and Stockholm Konserthus. He has also appeared at some of the most prestigious festivals, including La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, the Verbier Festival and Klavierfest Ruhr. Chamber music is another of his great pleasures and he regularly performs with Victor Julien-Laferrière, Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Lozakovich and Matthias Goerne.

Mr Kantorow records exclusively with BIS. His most recent recording (solo works by Brahms) received the 2022 Diapason d’Or. His two previous recordings (Saint-Saëns concerti 3-5 and solo works by Brahms, Bartok and Liszt) each received the Diapason d’Or and Choc Classica of the Year in 2019 and 2020, respectively. The solo disc was Gramophone magazine’s Editor’s Choice, his performance described as “a further remarkable example of his virtuosity and artistry, showing both skill and sensitivity throughout”. His earlier recital recordings, entitled à la Russe, also won numerous awards and distinctions, including the 2017 Choc de l’Année (Classica), Diapason découverte (Diapason), Supersonic (Pizzicata) and CD des Doppelmonats (PianoNews).

Mr Kantorow is a laureate of the Safran Foundation and Banque Populaire, and, in 2019, was named “Musical Revelation of the Year” by the Professional Critics Association. In 2020, he won France’s Victoires de la Musique Classique in two categories: Recording of the Year and Instrumental Soloist of the Year.

Born in France of Franco-British heritage, he has studied with Pierre-Alain Volondat, Igor Lazko, Frank Braley and Rena Shereshevskaya.

He works with the world’s greatest conductors, such as Semyon Bychkov, Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Klaus Mäkelä, Andris Nelsons, Vasily Petrenko, Lahav Shani, Tugan Sokhiev, Leonard Slatkin, Nathalie Stutzmann, Robin Ticciati, Krzysztof Urbański and Lorenzo Viotti.

Mr Lozakovich opened the 2022/23 season with his debut appearance at the BBC Proms. He was the season’s Artist in Residence with Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, performing concertos and recitals across the season. That season also included a concert with Oslo Philharmonic under Klaus Mäkelä, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg.

As a touring artist, he has performed in Japan and Asia with Valery Gergiev, and with the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Andrés Orozco-Estrada. In spring 2022, he made his debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra.

At age 15, Mr Lozakovich signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon and, in 2018, released his debut album of Bach’s two violin concertos, together with the Solo Partita No.2. The album reached number one in the all-music category of the French Amazon charts and the classical album charts in Germany. None but the Lonely Heart, Mr Lozakovich’s second album, devoted to Tchaikovsky, was released in October 2019. The young prodigy’s third album, released in 2020, focuses on Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, recorded live with Münchner Philharmoniker under Valery Gergiev, and released as an audio album and video in the year of the composer’s 250th birthday.

He plays the “ex-Baron Rothschild” Stradivarius, generously loaned on behalf of the owner by Reuning & Son, Boston, and Eduard Wulfso. He also plays the “Le Reynier” Stradivarius (1727), generously loaned by LVMH / MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON.