Concert Alexandre Kantorow, Daniel Lozakovich and Gautier Capuçon
© Fondation Louis Vuitton / Martin Raphaël Martiq
- Date
- 3 June 2025 – 8:30pm
- Place
- Auditorium
- Hours
- 20h30
Gautier Capuçon no longer needs any introduction, being a master and mentor of France’s cello world and a Fondation Louis Vuitton partner since 2014.
This concert will be broadcast live and in replay on FLV Play, medici.tv and Mezzo, and offline on Radio Classique.
For this exceptional concert, the charismatic soloist and talented chamber musician welcomes two prodigies, Daniel Lozakovich on violin and Alexandre Kantorow on piano, to interpret works by Mendelssohn and Brahms. The Russian-born violinist was recognised very early in life for his extraordinary gifts and signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon at the tender age of 15. He then went on to perform with the world’s most prestigious orchestras, mesmerising audiences with his “rich and romantic playing” (France Musique radio). On the piano, Alexandre Kantorow is the only Frenchman to have won First Prize at the illustrious Tchaikovsky Competition, taking the Grand Prix and the Gold Medal, as well. Described as a “sovereign genius” by France’s Le Monde newspaper, he is one of the finest pianists of his generation. He is thrilling not only with his boundless virtuosity but also for his keen sense of phrasing and breathtaking attention to timbre, particularly in this romantic repertoire he so cherishes.
Programme
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Trio n°1, op. 49
- Johannes Brahms
- Trio n°1, op. 8
Gautier Capuçon
Gautier Capuçon is truly a 21st-century ambassador for the cello. Every season, he performs with the world’s most renowned conductors and instrumentalists. Since 2014, he has also been the founder and Artistic Director of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Mr Capuçon is acclaimed worldwide for his expressive musicality, virtuosity and the deep sonority of his 1701 Matteo Goffriller cello, “L’Ambassadeur”.
Mr Capuçon has recently performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. This gave him the opportunity to collaborate with Alain Altinoglu, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Semyon Bychkov, Stéphane Denève, Valery Gergiev, Philippe Jordan, Andris Nelsons and Gianandrea Noseda. Gautier Capuçon was Artist in Residence with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano.
Over the course of his career, Mr Capuçon has forged many deep and lasting musical friendships. He is invited each season to play with the greatest orchestras, including the Philharmonic Orchestras of Berlin, Vienna, Los Angeles and New York, as well as the Chicago, San Francisco and London Symphony Orchestras. He works with conductors such as Lionel Bringuier, Myung-Whun Chung, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Järvi, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Tugan Sokhiev. He also collaborates with many contemporary composers, including Lera Auerbach, Karol Beffa, Esteban Benzecry, Nicola Campogrande, Qigang Chen, Bryce Dessner, Richard Dubugnon, Jérôme Ducros, Henri Dutilleux, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Manoury, Bruno Mantovani, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm, and Jörg Widmann. Past projects include the world premiere of Tabachnik’s cello concerto Summer, as well as collaborations with Danny Elfman and Thierry Escaich.
As a chamber musician, he is invited to perform in the world’s most superb venues and at the most renowned festivals with partners such as Nicholas Angelich, Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Lisa Batiashvili, Frank Braley, Renaud Capuçon, Jérôme Ducros, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Menahem Pressler, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Yuja Wang and the Artemis and Ébène Quartets.
Discography: Recording exclusively for Erato (Warner Classics), Mr Capuçon has won multiple awards and boasts an extensive discography. Earlier recordings include Shostakovich with the Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev, Saint-Saëns (Concerto No. 1 and La Muse et Le Poète) with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Lionel Bringuier, Schubert’s String Quintet with the Ébène Quartet; and the complete Beethoven sonatas with Frank Braley. His latest releases include the album Intuition (February 2018) recorded with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris/Douglas Boyd and pianist Jérôme Ducros, a live Schumann album with Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Bernard Haitink (January 2019), as well as the sonatas of Chopin and Franck with pianist Yuja Wang (December 2019). Since the fall of 2019, he has been presenting Les Carnets de Gautier Capuçon on France’s Radio Classique, heard daily from 5 to 6 p.m. Mr Capuçon also appears onscreen and online in programmes such as The Artist Academy, Prodiges and Now Hear This. In 2013, Deutsche Grammophon also released a live DVD of Mr Capuçon with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Gustavo Dudamel in a performance of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1.
In October 2021, to celebrate his 40th birthday, he released the three-CD album Souvenirs of iconic chamber-music works and repertoire for solo cello.
In November 2020, he released another album, Emotions, featuring transcriptions by pianist Jérôme Ducros of works by Debussy, Satie, Elgar, Schubert and Edith Piaf, with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Adrien Perruchon.
His album Sensations came out in November 2022, with transcriptions of classical works, French songs, and opera arias, accompanied by Jérôme Ducros, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Fatma Saïd, the Ensemble Capucelli, the Orchestre National de Bretagne and Johanna Malangré. In January 2021, Mr Capuçon was promoted to the rank of Chevalier in France’s Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur.
Born in Chambéry in 1981, Gautier Capuçon began playing the cello at the age of five with Augustin Lefèbvre and studied in Paris with Annie Cochet-Zakine, Philippe Muller, then in Vienna with Heinrich Schiff. He has been awarded several first prizes in international competitions, including the Premier Grand Prix at the Concours International André Navarra in Toulouse.
Alexandre Kantorow
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
Violinist Daniel Lozakovich, whose majestic music-making leaves critics and audiences spellbound, was born in Stockholm in 2001 and began playing the violin when he was almost seven years old. He made his solo debut two years later with the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Vladimir Spivakov. He plays regularly with the Orchestre National de Radio France, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Orchester der Komischen Oper of Berlin.
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.
