Young Performers Series Daniel Lozakovich
© Fondation Louis Vuitton / Gaël Cornier
- Date
- 28 June 2018 – 8:30pm
- Place
- Auditorium
- Duration
- 2h
Young Daniel Lozakovich, though just 17 years of age, is not one to quail before a challenge. This Swedish violin prodigy, who has long had recognition heaped upon him for his masterful technique, has brought together, in a single programme, the monumental works composed for his instrument: Partita by Bach, which opened unheard-of polyphonic possibilities to the violin; Caprices by Paganini, which earned that composer the title of “the devil’s violinist” for the titanic technical challenges contained therein; and Paganiniana by Nathan Milstein, a tribute to the most flamboyant of romantic violinists which recomposes the contours of virtuosity.
The artist
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.
The programme
- Johann-Sebastian Bach
- Partita n°2 pour violon seul BWV 1004
- Nathan Milstein
- Paganiniana
- Fritz Kreisler
- Recitativo und Scherzo - Caprice op.6
- Niccolò Paganini
- Caprice
