DANIEL ROWLAND

Daniel Rowland was born in London in 1972 and 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 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. Daniel made his concerto debut at the Concertgebouw in 1992, playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto and has since then returned there on numerous occasions.

He has developed a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra leader. In July 2007, he joined the London based Brodsky String Quartet (www.brodskyquartet.co.uk) - recognized as one of the words most dynamic and exciting string quartets - as their new first violinist. 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, Lisbon, Baden-Baden, Basel, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Antwerp and The Hague, working with conductors such as Andrei Boreiko, Djanzug Khakidze, Viktor Liberman, Lawrence Foster, Victor Yamposky, Diego Masson, Lev Markiz, James Laughran and Jaap van Zweden.

An accomplished recitalist, Daniel has performed in places as diverse as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Washington, Paris, the Szymanowsky House in Zakopane (Poland), Porto, Brussels, Catania 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).

Ten years ago, Daniel founded the Amsterdam Chamber Music Ensemble, a collective of musical friends, who meets several times a year to performe chamber music in Holand and around the world. Daniel is keenly interested in 20th and 21st century music and leads the Ensemble Contrechamps and the Quatour Contrechamps in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as the new London based ensemble "Radius", which recently made it’s successful Wigmore Hall debut.

In demand as an orchestra leader, he is frequently invited to guest-lead major London 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. He is also regularly invited to direct chamber orchestras, and on several occasions directed the Gulbenkian Orchestra and orchestras in Glasgow, Catania and London.

Daniel has given master classes in Holland, the UK, Italy, Portugal and South Africa. In 2005 he founded the "Stift Music Festival" at an idyllic spot in the eastern Netherlands. His violin is by Lorenzo Storioni, Cremona, 1793.