Daniel Stabrawa

Daniel Stabrawa ( born August 23, 1955 in Kraków ) is a Polish violinist and conductor.

Life

Daniel Stabrawa began seven years playing the violin and studied at the Academy of Music in Krakow at Zbigniew Szlezer in violin. After he is international Nicolo Paganini Competition in Genoa, among other winners, in 1979 he was concertmaster of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Krakow. On November 15, 1983, he was member of the first violins at the Berlin Philharmonic and founded in 1985, among others, with his orchestra colleague Jan Diesselhorst (cello) Philharmonia Quartett Berlin of the internationally renowned, with whom he has since worked as a violinist of over 100 pieces of comprehensive repertoire and was honored in 2000 with the ECHO Klassik prize and two times with the "German critics Prize ".

In 1986 he was the conductor Herbert von Karajan, succeeding Michel Schwalbé one of the three first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1986 to 2000 he taught at the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. In addition to his international activities as a soloist Daniel Stabrawa operated since 1994 as a conductor, such as from 1995 to 2002 as chief conductor of the Capella Bydgostiensis of the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz. In these properties, it works with internationally renowned artists such as Nigel Kennedy and Albrecht Mayer.

Daniel Stabrawa is married to concert pianist Elżbieta Stabrawa. His daughter Maria Stabrawa is also internationally active solo and chamber musician, with whom he regularly occurring together.

Discography (selection)

• Shooting in " Thorofon " means all quartet recordings
• Antonio Vivaldi: The Vivaldi Album Vol 2, Nigel Kennedy and Daniel Stabrawa (violin), EMI 5578592 (2004)
• Antonio Vivaldi: The Vivaldi Album Vol 1, Nigel Kennedy and Daniel Stabrawa (violin), EMI 5576482 (2004)
• Romantic oboe concertos in the 20th century, Albrecht Mayer ( oboe), Capella Bydgostiensis, Conducted by Daniel Stabrawa, Cavalli Records CCD 408 ( 2003)
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor BWV 1043, Berliner Philharmoniker, Nigel Kennedy and Daniel Stabrawa (violin), EMI 57091 (2000)