Recital by Renaud Capuçon and Daniel Lozakovich

Crédit photographique : © Simon Fowler, Lyodoh Kaneko

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25€ - 40€
Date
1 December 2025 – 8:30pm
Place
Auditorium

The day after a weekend of masterclasses, Renaud Capuçon is joined by the prodigy Daniel Lozakovich to perform an original programme for two violins created by Mr Capuçon.

Violin duos, a popular instrument grouping during the Baroque era, saw a resurgence in the early 20th century through new attention from composers drawn to a sonic homogeneity brimming with surprises and ambiguities. To offer a panoramic perspective on this tantalising and little-known repertoire, the two virtuosos present a programme ranging from spiritual pieces composed by Jean-Marie Leclair during the Age of Enlightenment, the daring works of Bartók and Prokofiev and the fiery, dazzling Romanticism of Ysaÿe and Wienawski.

Programme :

  • Eugène Ysaÿe
    Sonata for Two Violins in A Minor
    , Op. posth

  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sonata for Two Violins in C Major
    , Op. 56

  • Henri Wieniawski
    Eight
    Études-Caprices for Two Violins, Op.18

  • Bela Bartók
    Duos for Two Violins
    , Sz. 98  

  • Jean-Marie Leclair,
    Sonatas for Two Violins
    , Op.3 

Renaud Capuçon

Born in Chambéry in 1976, Renaud Capuçon studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Gérard Poulet and Veda Reynolds, and later with Thomas Brandis in Berlin and Isaac Stern. Invited by Claudio Abbado in 1998 as Konzertmeister of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, he continued his musical education with Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Daniel Barenboim and Franz Welser-Möst. In 2000 he was nominated “Rising Star” and “New Talent of the Year” (French Victoires de la Musique), in 2005 he was titled “Soliste instrumental de l’Année” (also by the French Victoires de la Musique), and in 2006 he was awarded the “Prix Georges Enesco” (Sacem).

Mr Capuçon works with the world’s greatest conductors, such as David Robertson, Matthias Pintscher, Gustavo Dudamel, Lionel Bringuier, Wolfgang Sawallish, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Jarvi, Daniele Gatti, Myung-Whun Chung, Semyon Bychkov, Yannick Nezet-Séguin, Kurt Masur, Daniel Harding, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Vladimir Yurowsky, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Andris Nelsons, Jonathan Nott, Antonio Papano and Stéphane Denève.

He regularly performs with world-renowned orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestra della Scala di Milano, Orchestra of La Svizzera Italiana, the Wiener Symphoniker, Czech Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Camerata Salzburg, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Staatskapelle, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Tonhalle Zurich, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Berlin Staatskapelle, Santa Cecilia, RAI Turin, Seoul Philharmonic and NHK Symphony.

Mr Capuçon gave the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Violin Concerto with the WDR Cologne, as well as a five-concert Brahms/Fauré chamber music cycle. at the Musikverein in Vienna.

A committed chamber musician, he collaborates with Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angelich, Kit Armstrong, Khatia Buniatishvili, Frank Braley, Guillaume Bellom, Yefim Bronfman, Hélène Grimaud, Khatia and Marielle Labèque, Maria João Pires, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Gérard Caussé, Yuri Bashmet, Myung-Whun Chung, Yo Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Truls Mork, Michael Pletnev and his brother Gautier, all in the most renowned festivals, such as Aix-en-Provence, Saint-Denis, La Roque d’Anthéron, Menton, Colmar, Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, Gstaad, Lucerne, Lugano, Verbier, Salzburg, Rheingau, Bucharest Festival Enescu, Amsterdam and Granada.

His discography with Erato is vast in scope: Haydn/Mendelssohn Trios and the Triple Concerto by Beethoven with Martha Argerich, Berlioz/Saint-Saëns/Milhaud/Ravel with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/Daniel Harding, L’Arbre des Songes/Dutilleux with the Philharmonique de Radio France/M.-W. Chung, Mendelssohn/Schumann with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Harding, Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Louis Langrée and Antoine Tamestit, chamber music by Schubert, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, as well as Brahms sonatas, trios and quartets with Nicholas Angelich, his brother Gautier and Gérard Caussé, the concertos by Beethoven/Korngold with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Seguin, the complete Beethoven sonatas with Frank Braley and the complete works of Fauré with Messrs Angelich, Capuçon, Dalberto, Caussé and the Quatuor Ebène. After the Brahms and Berg concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic and Daniel Harding, Saint-Saëns with the Philharmonique de Radio France and Lionel Bringuier, as well as L’Histoire de Babar – Poulenc/Debussy/Ridout with Laurence Ferrari and Jérôme Ducros. His first “greatest hits” compilation, Violon Roi, was released: a three-CD boxed set retracing his career and a recital with Khatia Buniatishvili (Frank – Grieg – Dvorak), a disc featuring Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Sarasate’s Airs Bohémiens, another disc with contemporary Rihm/Dusapin/Montovani concertos nominated for the best recording at the 2017 Victoires de le Musique and a disc of Debussy sonatas and trios released in October 2017, J.S. Bach’s sonatas for violin and piano with David Fray (2019) and Beethoven’s Ghost and Archduke trios with Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley (February 2020), Camille Saint-Saëns’ piano trios and sonatas for violin and piano, with Edgar Moreau and Bertrand Chamayou, Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto and Sonata for Violin and Piano, with the London Symphony Orchestra, Sir[T1]  Simon Rattle and Stephen Hough, an Arvo Pärt disc with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (September 2021), a recital “Un Violon à Paris” with Guillaume Bellom, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and two concertos from Chevalier de Saint-George, with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Cinema II “Les Choses de la Vie” (2024).

With Deutsche Grammophon, Renaud Capuçon released a Beethoven/Schumann/Franck recital, recorded with Martha Argerich at the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence (2022), the complete Mozart piano and violin sonatas with Kit Armstrong (2023) and the complete Mozart violin concertos with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (2023).

Recent releases: with Warner Classics, the Barber and Sibelius concertos with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Daniel Harding (2025); on Deutsche Grammophon, a Richard Strauss box set featuring the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, and Petr Popelka (2025).

In June 2011, he was appointed by the French government to the rank of Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite, then Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in March 2016, Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in Decembre 2021and Officier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite in Decembre 2023. He is the founder and artistic director of the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence and the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad Festival, as well as a violin professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne. In 2022, Mr Capuçon was named as Artistic Director of the Évian La Grange au Lac Festival. He has also been a UNESCO Artist for Peace since September 2020.

Since September 2021, Mr Capuçon has been Music Director of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.

In March 2020, Mr Capuçon released his first book, Mouvement Perpétuel, published by Flammarion.

Renaud Capuçon plays the Guarneri del Gesù “Panette” (1737) violin, which once belonged to Isaac Stern.

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.