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 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.

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.