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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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