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Daniel Rowland
Biography: English / Long Version
"Glorious playing ... ravishing in its finesse"
The Guardian
"Extraordinarily expressive"
The Financial Times
"His tone was silky smooth and sweet as honey and he seemed to be in another
world, eyes closed and breathing in the very soul of the music."
The Herald
Daniel Rowland (London, 1972) grew up in the Netherlands studying with Davina van Wely and Viktor Liberman at the Amsterdam Conservatoire and with Igor Oistrakh at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. He also worked intensively with Herman Krebbers, Ruggiero Ricci and Ivry Gitlis.
He won various national and international prizes, such as the "Brahms Prize" of the Brahms Society in Baden-Baden and the prestigious Oskar Back competition at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He made his concerto debut at the Concertgebouw in 1992, playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto and has since then returned there on numerous occasions.
Daniel Rowland has developed a versatile career as a sought after soloist, chamber musician, orchestra leader and teacher. In July 2007, he joined the renowned, London based Brodsky String Quartet as their new first violinist. The Brodskys have a busy international performing schedule with concerts in Australia, the far east and throughout Europe in the '07-'08 season. They are in residence at the RSAMD in Glasgow and are also the resident quartet at the Cadogan Hall in London. Daniel also leads the ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, with whom he is also a frequent soloist - appearances in 2008 include the Berg Kammerkonzert (H. Holliger) and Katja Saariaho's 'Graaltheater' (J. Hempel).
As a soloist he has performed widely in venues like the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Glinka Hall in St. Petersburg, Symphony Hall in Birmingham and the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, in a repertoire ranging from Vivaldi to the big romantic concertos to Lutoslawsky, Ferneyhough and Piazzolla. He has performed with orchestras in Oporto, Bratislava, Poznan, Glasgow, Istanbul, Lisbon, Baden-Baden, Basel, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Antwerp and The Hague, working with conductors such as Boreiko, Khakidze, Liberman, L. Foster, Yampolsky, Masson, Hempel, Markiz, Laughran and van Zweden.
In recital, Daniel regularly performs with pianists Bernd Brackman and Patricia de la Vega and has appeared in places as diverse as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw,, the Szymanowsky House in Zakopane (Poland), the Ajuda Palace in Lisbon, a beautiful village square in Trecastagni, Sicily, and in Porto, Brussels, Catania, Washington, Paris and Trinidad. A passionate chamber musician, Daniel has recently performed at chamber music festivals in Stellenbosch (South Africa), Zilina (Slowakia), Povoa de Varzim (Portugal), Catania (Italy).
Daniel founded the Amsterdam Chamber Music Ensemble (ACME), musical friends who meet a couple of times a year to perform chamber music in Holland and around the world. Daniel is keenly interested in 20th and 21st century music and is the leader of the Geneva based Ensemble Contrechamps. With Contrechamps he will perform as a soloist in '08 in the Berg Kammerkonzert (H. Holliger) and K. Saariaho's 'Graaltheater' (J. Hempel). He also leads the new London based ensemble "Radius", which recently made its successful Wigmore Hall debut.
In demand as an orchestra leader, he is frequently invited to guest-lead major orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic, the Philharmonia and the BBC Symphony Orchestra working with conductors like Haitink, Muti, Pletnev, Dohnanyi, Ashkenazy, Dutoit and Gergiev. As soloist/director he has worked with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and orchestras in Glasgow, Catania and London, and he is music director of the Johann Strauss Gala.
Daniel teaches at the Royal Scottisch Acacemy of Music Drama in Glasgow, as part of the Brodsky Quartet's residency and is a visiting professor at the Superior School in Castelo Branco, Portugal. He has given master classes in Holland, the UK, Italy, Portugal and South Africa. In 2005 he founded the "Stift Music Festival" - which combines a chamber music festival with intensive masterclasses- at an idyllic spot in the eastern Netherlands. His violin is by Lorenzo Storioni, Cremona, 1793.