Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Nathalie Stutzmann is considered one of the most outstanding musical personalities of our time. Proclaimed “the best contralto in the world“(BR Klassik), Nathalie has spent her career performing with the world’s greatest conductors and orchestras.

Particularly acclaimed for her concert performances of Mahler and Brahms, she is also a highly praised recitalist: Nathalie has performed more than 300 recitals with Swedish pianist Inger Södergren, with whom she has also recorded several song cycles by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Poulenc and Chausson, among others. Recitals in recent seasons include performances at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Stockholm Concert Hall, Salle Garnier Monte Carlo, St George’s Hall Liverpool, La Monnaie in Brussels, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, and a Japan tour to celebrate the re-release by Warner/Erato of their earlier recording of the three Schubert song cycles.

In recent years she has recorded several highly acclaimed albums as a singer and conductor for Deutsche Grammophone and Erato: an album of Italian arias with “Quella Fiamma”, for which she was praised by Gramophone as being “one of the great baroque singers of our day”, "Heroes from the Shadows" (Handel), which was awarded a Diapason d’Or, “Une Cantate Imaginaire” (Bach), and “Prima Donna” (Vivaldi). Her next album, “Contraltos”, is due for release on Erato in 2020 and will feature arias sung by the great contaltos of the 18th century, including La Robinson, La Vanini Poschi, La Giro, La Dotti, La D’Ambreville Perroni, La Negri. She will tour this programme during the fall 2020.

Nathalie started her studies at a very young age in piano, bassoon, chamber music and conducting. Her vocal training was initially with her mother, the distinguished soprano, Christiane Stutzmann, and later at the Ecole d’Art Lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris focusing on lieder with the great Hans Hotter.

In January 2019 she was admitted into the 'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur' (France's highest honour) at the rank of Chevalier. She is also 'Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite' and Officer of the 'Arts et Lettres' in France.

Daniel Lozakovich, whose majestic music-making leaves both critics and audiences spellbound, was born in Stockholm in 2001 and began playing the violin when approaching seven years of age. He made his solo debut two years later with the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Vladimir Spivakov. Lozakovich now regularly performs with such orchestras as the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Munchner Philharmoniker. He collaborates the world’s eminent conductors including Semyon Bychkov, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Klaus Mäkelä, Andris Nelsons, Vasily Petrenko, Lahav Shani, Tugan Sokhiev, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Nathalie Stutzmann, Krzysztof Urbanski and Lorenzo Viotti.

Recent highlights include Lozakovich’s return invitation to the Boston Symphony Orchestra in subscription with Nelsons, his New York debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival with Louis Langrée, debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra with Mäkelä and the LA Philharmonic with Salonen. Notable touring highlights include engagements in Japan and Asia with Valery Gergiev, and the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Andrés Orozco-Estrada. A remarkable 2020/21 season was scheduled to include engagements such as Lozakovich’s debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Oslo Philharmonic, Orquestra Nacional de Espana, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo.

A highly sought after recitalist, having performed in some of the world’s most prestigious venues, Lozakovich has made appearances at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Tonhalle Zürich, Victoria Hall Geneva, Conservatorio G. Verdi Milan and the Mariinsky Theatre. On tour he has appeared at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and this season, he returns to the Konzerthaus Wien. Lozakovich is regular at international music festivals, including the Verbier Festival, Sommets musicaux de Gstaad, Festival Rotterdam, White Nights Festival, Moscow Easter Festival, Tsinandali Festival, Festival de Pâques – Aix-en-Provence, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival and the Pacific Music Festival. Lozakovich enjoys collaborations with the likes of Ivry Gitlis, Emanuel Ax, Renaud Capuçon, Shlomo Mintz, Denis Matsuev, Khatia Buniatishvili, George Li, Seong-Jin Cho, Martin Fröst and Maxim Vengerov.

Aged 15, Lozakovich signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon, and in 2018 released his debut album of Bach’s violin concerti and the solo partita No. 2. The album reached number 1 in the music category of the French Amazon charts and the classical album charts in Germany. “None but the lonely heart”, Lozakovich’s second album, was released in 2019. Dedicated to Tchaikovsky, it includes the Violin Concerto, and the disc was recorded live with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia and Spivakov. Lozakovich’s third album, released in 2020, centres on the Beethoven Violin concerto, again recorded live, with the Munchner Philharmoniker, together with Lozakovich’s close artist partner and the orchestra’s Chief Conductor, Valery Gergiev, and released as an audio album and e-video, in the 250th Beethoven anniversary year. An incredibly significant project to Lozakovich, who regards the concerto as one of the all-time greatest concerti ever written, the album reached the streaming release charts on Spotify and Tidal.

Lozakovich has been awarded many prizes including 1st prize at the 2016 Vladimir Spivakov International Violin Competition and “The Young Artist of the Year 2017” award at the Festival of the Nations, the Premio Batuta Award in Mexico, and the Excelentia Prize under the honorary presidency of Queen Sofia of Spain. Lozakovich studied at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Professor Josef Rissin from 2012, and from 2015 has been mentored by Eduard Wulfson in Geneva. Daniel Lozakovich plays the “ex-Baron Rothschild” Stradivari on generous loan on behalf of the owner by Reuning & Son, Boston, and Eduard Wulfson and plays the Stradivarius Le Reynier (1727), generously loaned by LVMH / MOET HENNESSY. LOUIS VUITTON.