Alexandre Kantorow & Daniel Lozakovich Recital

The first is a rising star of the piano whose dazzling career was launched by his success, at the age of 22, at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2019. The second is a 21-year-old virtuoso of Swedish origin who signed, at the age of 15, with the legendary Deutsch Gramophone label and became the protégé of Valery Gergiev.

For this concert, Alexandre Kantorow and Daniel Lozakovich combine their talents to present a programme devoted to sonatas for violin and piano by the greatest German and French Romantic composers: the ardent, delicate lyricism of Johannes Brahms contrasts with Schumann’s fiery intensity and the refined elegance of César Franck. Nothing less than the musical genius of these two exceptional artists – acclaimed by the press as the “Young Tsar of the Piano" and the “Young Prince of the Violin” – would suffice to present to the audience of the Fondation Louis Vuitton Auditorium this recital fit for a king!

This concert will be available on live stream and replay on medici.tv, the Fondation's website as well as on delay on Mezzo and Radio Classique.

The artists

Piano
In 2019, aged 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition, where he also won the Grand Prix, which has only been awarded three times before in the competition’s history. Hailed by critics as the “Young Tsar of the Piano” (Classica) and “Liszt reincarnated” (Fanfare), he has received numerous other awards and has been invited to perform worldwide at the highest level.

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.

Daniel Lozakovich, whose music-making leaves both critics and audiences spellbound, has become one of today’s most sought-after violinists. The 2025/26 season will mark a series of major debuts and high-profile engagements. He will appear with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä on tour in Korea, followed by performances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, and Orquesta de Castilla y León. He will tour Europe with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and close collaborator Tarmo Peltokoski and will reunite with Nathalie Stutzmann at Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In 2026, he begins a residency with São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. A highlight of the season comes in March 2026, when Lozakovich is the dedicatee and creator of Pascal Dusapin’s Second Violin Concerto, premiering at Fondation Vuitton with Ensemble Utopia conducted by Teodor Currentzis.

Daniel Lozakovich regularly performs with leading orchestras such as Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco orchestras, BBC Symphony at BBC Proms, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Budapest Festival, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestres National et Philharmonique de Radio France, Filarmonica della Scala in Teatro Alla Scala, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Swedish Radio Symphony and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Lucerne Festival, Sydney Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic. He regularly performs with eminent conductors such as Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andris Nelsons, Ádám Fischer, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph Eschenbach, Nathalie Stutzmann, Neeme Järvi, Valery Gergiev, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Vasily Petrenko, Tarmo Peltokoski, Lahav Shani, Lorenzo Viotti, Kazuki Yamada, Fabien Gabel, Osmo Vänskä and Rafael Payare.

As a highly sought-after recitalist, he has made appearances in historical venues such as Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Tonhalle Zürich, Victoria Hall Geneva, Conservatorio G. Verdi Milan, The Mariinsky Theatre and more. On tour, he has regularly appeared in esteemed concert halls such as Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Konzerthaus Wien. Lozakovich is a regular at international music festivals, including Verbier Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Sommets musicaux de Gstaad, Festival de Pâques – Aix-en-Provence, Tanglewood Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, among many others.

As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Klaus Mäkelä, Yuja Wang, Emanuel Ax, Ivry Gitlis, Alexander Kantorow, Sergei Babayan, Martin Fröst, the brothers Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, Alexandre Kantorow, Behzod Abduraimov, and David Fray.

Daniel Lozakovich has already achieved considerable acclaim on record, having been signed by Deutsche Grammophon at just 15 years old. His recording of J.S. Bach’s two Violin Concertos reached number one in the all-music category of the French Amazon charts as well as the classical album charts in Germany. His live recording of None but The Lonely Heart was named a Top Choice by Gramophone, ranking among the best recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto spanning the past 70 years. In 2020 he released his highly acclaimed live recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. In 2024, he signed an exclusive contract with Warner Classics, and recorded with pianist Mikhail Pletnev on a debut album, which led to performances in Taipei, Kaohsiung, Vienna’s Musikverein, Berlin’s Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and Munich’s Herkulesaal.

Lozakovich has been awarded many prizes including first prize at Vladimir Spivakov International Violin Competition 2016, Young Artist of the Year 2017 at Festival of Nations, Premio Batuta Award in Mexico, and Excelentia Prize under the honorary presidency of Queen Sofia of Spain. Lozakovich studied at Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Professor Josef Rissin from 2012 and graduated with a Master’s degree in 2021.

Born in Stockholm in 2001, he began playing the violin at the age of seven. He made his solo debut two years later with Vladimir Spivakov. From 2015 he has been mentored by Eduard Wulfson in Geneva. Daniel Lozakovich plays the “ex-Sancy” 1713 Stradivari generously loaned by LVMH / MOËT HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON.