Daniel Lozakovich, a regular on stage, is preparing to perform this Wednesday night before a very prestigious audience. The 22-year-old Swedish violinist was chosen to provide the musical interlude at the state dinner in honor of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the Palace of Versailles.
Daniel Lozakovich will perform before 160 distinguished guests at the event, including Hugh Grant, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mick Jagger, Arsène Wenger and, of course, President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by his wife Brigitte. Enough to confirm the already impressive career of this young virtuoso who has traveled to concert halls throughout Europe since he was nine years old.
First concert at nine years old
Born in 2001 in Stockholm (Sweden) to a Kyrgyz mother and Belarusian father, Daniel Lozakovich fell in love with the violin at the age of six. His parents, who are not musicians, would have preferred him to pursue a career in tennis, he confided. Western France in 2018.
A true prodigy, the young man is so talented that his teachers can’t believe he’s just getting started. “It’s as if he had already played it in another life,” he tells the newspaper. Time in 2018.
Aware of Daniel Lozakovich’s talent, his mother sent a video of his exploits to the Russian violinist Vladimir Spivakov, who confirmed the musician’s talent by hiring him as a soloist in his Moscow Virtuosos orchestra, with which he would give his first concert at the age of one. nine.
Formed between Germany and Switzerland in Geneva by Josef Rissin and Eduard Wulfson, Daniel Lozakovich received an exclusive contract with the classical record label Deutsche Grammophon in 2016.
The violinist thus becomes the youngest artist (15 years old) to join this label and will release in 2018 a first album dedicated to Bach, “the father of all musicians”, according to him, as well as a second dedicated to Tchaikovsky in 2019. .
From now on, Daniel Lozakovich is in demand by the most important festivals and orchestras in the world. In France, the musician who speaks Swedish, his native language, Russian, German and English, regularly performs with the Orchester National de France or the Orchester de Paris. He recently appeared alongside K-pop group Blackpink at the Yellow Pieces Gala in Paris in March 2023.
Although the program of Daniel Lozakovich’s passage has not been specified, this musical interlude should please King Charles III. Passionate about classical music, the British sovereign himself dabbled in the cello when he was young and sponsors numerous symphony orchestras in the United Kingdom.
Source: BFM TV
