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The Swedish violinist, Daniel Lozakovich, and began playing the violin in 2007, making his concerto debut with the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Vladimir Spivakov two years later. Since 2012, he studies at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Professor Josef Rissin, and he is mentored by Eduard Wulfson. Currently, he is a student at the Collège du Léman in Geneva.
Daniel Lozakovich has already performed as a soloist throughout Europe with orchestras including the the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic of Russia, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. Recently, he made his debuts with Leonard Slatkin and the Orchestre National de Lyon, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse and Lorenzo Viotti, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Robin Ticciati, the Danish National Chamber Orchestra and Adam Fischer.
Daniel Lozakovich l has a close collaboration with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, since they played together during the New Year’s concert 2015 at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. He returned to the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra to perform L.v. Beethoven's Violin Concerto at the closing anniversary concert of the 15th Moscow Easter Festival, and later at the Stars of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, also the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm’s Berwaldhallen and at the Rotterdam Gergiev Festival with Prokofiev concerto. He opened the Münchner Philharmoniker festival, MPHIL 360°, alongside Maestro Valery Gergiev and Münchner Philharmoniker with W.A. Mozart violin concerto. He also performed J.S. Bach's Concerto for Two Violins (BWV 1043) with Shlomo Mintz and the Cameristi della Scala and Daniel Cohen at the Crans-Montana Classics 2016 New Year’s Concert.
Daniel Lozakovich has a love of chamber music and has enjoyed collaborations with, among others, Ivry Gitlis, Daniel Hope, Martin Fröst, and Maxim Vengerov. In September 2015, he recorded a selection of Béla Bartók’s Violin Duos with Daniel Hope for Deutsche Grammophon, having previously performed together on ARTE’s Concert television program.
Daniel Lozakovich is a regular performer at the Verbier Festival and many other international music festivals, the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, Corinthian Summer Music Festival in Austria, the Colmar Festival, Moscow Meets Friends, the International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival in Baku, and the Sommets musicaux de Gstaad, where he returned in February 2016 to perform both the J.S. Bach's Concerto in A minor BWV 1041 and Concerto for Two Violins BWV 1043 with Renaud Capuçon and the Festival Strings Lucerne. He also made his chamber music debut at the Aix en Provence Festival de Pâques in 2016 with Renaud Capuçon, and Khatia Buniatishvili.
Highlights for the 2017-2018 season include: tours in Japan with Valery Gergiev at the Pacific Music Festival (PMF); Japan tour with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra conductor Andreas Orozko-Estrada; a return to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Semyon Bychkov and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Tugan Sokhiev; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Krzysztof Urbanski; Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra with Lahav Shani. Daniel Lozakovich will have his debut concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Andris Nelsons at Tanglewood; Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège with Christian Arming; Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin; Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino; Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra of Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nikolaj Znaider. Furthermore, he will perform recitals at the Aix en Provence Festival; Salle Molière de Lyon; Les Grandes Voix – Les Grands Solistes; Tonhalle Zürich and return to the Verbier Festival. At the Festival of the Nations he will perform with Munich Radio Orchestra and Mischa Damev.
Daniel Lozakovich has been awarded numerous international prizes including the 1st prize at the 2016 Vladimir Spivakov International Violin Competition; both the 1st Prize and the “Grand Prix” at the 2012 EMCY international music competition, “Ohrid PEARLS”, Macedonia; 1st Prize and the “Gulda Nutcracker” at the 12th Nutcracker International Television Contest for Young Musicians in Moscow, 2011; 2nd Prize at the “Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists”, Austin, USA, 2014, and the 2015 Manfred Grommek Prize from Kronberg Academy. He won three prestigious awards: the “Viennese Classics”, “String Soloists”, and “Best Interpretation of Sarasate ‘Gypsy Airs’” at the 2014 International Summer Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Excelentia Prizes under the Honour Presidence of Queen Sofia of Spain. At the Festival of the Nations he was awarded the prize of “The Young Artist of the Year 2017”
In June 2016, Daniel Lozakovich signed an exclusive recording deal with Deutsche Grammophon and will begin his long-term cooperation with the label by recording two orchestral albums and a recital disc.
In his limited spare time, Daniel Lozakovich enjoys playing football, boxing, tennis and chess. He currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland. |
