Daniel Lozakovitj was born in April 2001 and began playing the violin in 2007, making his concerto debut with the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Vladimir Spivakov two years later. Daniel has already performed as a soloist throughout Europe with orchestras including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, Stockholm Royal Court, Gävle Symphony, Brussels Chamber Orchestra, and Stockholm Sinfonietta. Recently, Daniel made his debuts with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin and the Orchestre National de Lyon, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Okko Kamu and the Norrköping Symphony, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. He also performed the Bach Concerto for Two Violins with Shlomo Mintz and the Cameristi della Scala and Daniel Cohen at the Crans-Montana Classics 2016 New Year’s Concert.
Daniel has a love of chamber music and has enjoyed collaborations with, among others, Maxim Vengerov and Ivry Gitlis. In September 2015, Daniel recorded a selection of Bartók’s Violin Duos with Daniel Hope for Deutsche Grammophon, having previously performed together on ARTE’s Concert television programme.
Daniel is a regular performer at the Verbier Festival, most recently in a chamber music concert with Martin Fröst and Julien Quentin. He returns in 2016 for a solo recital, chamber music with Daniel Hope, and a performance with the Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra and Dimo Slobodeniouk. Daniel has performed at many international music festivals, including the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, Carinthian Summer Music Festival in Austria, Musica Mundi in Belgium, Moscow Meets Friends, Copenhagen Summer Festival, the Yuri Bashmet International Festival in Minsk, the International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival in Baku, and the Sommets musicaux de Gstaad, where he returned in February 2016 to perform both the Bach Concerto in A minor BWV 1041 and Concerto for Two Violins BWV 1043 with Renaud Capuçon and the Lucerne Strings. He also made his chamber music debut at the Aix en Provence Festival de Pâques with Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili, and others.
Future engagements include the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra at the Rotterdam Prokofiev and Moscow Easter festivals, and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, a return to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic with Semyon Bychkov, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Andris Nelsons at Tanglewood, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Swedish Radio Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai Torino, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Gothenburg Symphony, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and the National Philharmonic of Russia at the Colmar Festival. In 2017, Carnegie Hall will also present Daniel in his New York recital debut.
Daniel has been awarded numerous international prizes including both the 1st Prize and the “Grand Prix” at the 2012 EMCY international music competition, “Ohrid PEARLS”, Macedonia; 1st Prize at the 2010 International Music Competition in Stockholm; 1st Prize at the 2010 “Bravo” International Violin Competition in Belgium; 1st Prize and the “Gulda Nutcracker” at the 12th Nutcracker International Television Contest for Young Musicians in Moscow, 2011; Winner of the 2012 Stockholm Solna Music Award; 2nd Prize at the “Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists”, Austin, USA 2014, and the 2015 Manfred Grommek Prize from Kronberg Academy. Daniel 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.
Daniel lives in Stockholm and studies with Professor Josef Rissin at the Karlsruhe University of Music. Since September 2015 he has been coached by Eduard Wulfson. In his spare time, Daniel enjoys playing football, tennis and chess.