Daniel Kawka
Conductor Daniel Kawka specializes in French and German orchestral music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is often associated with the music of Wagner, Richard Strauss, Ravel, and Pierre Boulez.
Kawka was born in Firminy, in France's Loire region, in 1959. He studied music and literature in the nearby city of Saint-Etienne, and then enrolled at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, studying a complete range of musical subjects: harmony, counterpoint, composition, conducting, and musicology. Hearing a performance of Wagner's Parsifal conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch in 1979 determined his choice of career, and he was later inspired by Boulez's chamber song cycle Le Marteau sans maître. Kawka has referred to Boulez as a figure "who has best changed the course of history, shifted barriers, and undermined prejudices." He did a written thesis on the music of Albert Roussel. Kawka's career has been divided between conducting and musicology; he has served as a professor and the director of research at the Lumière University Lyon 2. Kawka made an impression in 1992 as the founder of the group Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain. He has a distinguished record of appearances as a guest conductor of leading orchestras in various countries, including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Italy. As an orchestral conductor, he has often led performances of music by Mahler and Strauss. He has often conducted opera, including a production of Wagner's entire Ring Cycle directed by Laurent Joyaux. Since 2011, Kawka has been the principal conductor of Italy's Orchestra Della Toscana.
Kawka has led various orchestras in recordings for the Stradivarius, Harmonia Mundi, and Col Legno labels, among others. With his Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, he recorded a chamber transcription of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G major. In 2020, he directed the same group in an album of music by Boulez, including Le Marteau sans maître.
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Discographie
9 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Boulez: Dérives 1 & 2 - Mémorial
Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain
Classique - Paru chez naïve classique le 23 janv. 2012
Discothèque Idéale Qobuz5 de Diapason16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Adámek: Sinuous Voices
Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Romeo Monteiro, Daniel Kawka
Classique - Paru chez Aeon le 9 févr. 2018
5 de Diapason24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ravel & Schmitt : Piano Concertos
Vincent Larderet, Orchestre symphonique de l'Estuaire, Daniel Kawka
Concertos pour clavier - Paru chez Ars Produktion le 25 sept. 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Le Marteau sans maître / B-Partita
Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Daniel Kawka
Classique - Paru chez col legno le 14 févr. 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Hersant : Concerto 2 Pour Violoncelle
Cyrille Tricoire, Opéra Orchestre national de Montpellier Occitanie, Juraj Valčuha, Daniel Kawka, Christophe Tellard
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Division Decca Records France le 14 août 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Arr. E. Stein for Chamber Orchestra)
Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Isabel Soccoja, Daniel Kawka
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Musicaphon le 4 oct. 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Barber: Piano Concerto & 3 Essays
Giampaolo Nuti, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Roma, Daniel Kawka
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Stradivarius le 20 sept. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Solbiati: Sinfonia seconda, Sinfonia & Die Sterne des Leidlands
Daniel Kawka, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino
Classique - Paru chez Stradivarius le 13 avr. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Voyages
Daniel Kawka, Mikrokosmos Chamber Chorus, Pascal Gallois, Loïc Pierre, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Classique - Paru chez Stradivarius le 24 janv. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo