Daniel Stabrawa

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

Life

Daniel Stabrawa began playing the violin at the age of seven and studied violin at the Music Academy in Kraków with Zbigniew Szlezer. After winning the international Paganini Competition in Genoa, among others , he became concertmaster of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Krakow in 1979.

On November 15, 1983, Stabrawa became a member of the first violins of the Berlin Philharmonic . In 1985, among other things, with his orchestra colleagues Christian Stadelmann (second violin), Neithard Resa (Viola) and January Diesselhorst (cello), the internationally renowned Philharmonia Quartett Berlin , with whom he as a violinist has now developed over 100 pieces extensive repertoire. In 2000 the ensemble was awarded the ECHO Klassik Prize and twice the “German Critics Prize”.

In 1986, under the conductor Herbert von Karajan, he succeeded Michel Schwalbé as one of the three first concert masters of the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1986 to 2000 he taught at the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic . In addition to his international work as a soloist, Daniel Stabrawa has also been active as a conductor since 1994, for example from 1995 to 2002 as chief conductor of the Capella Bydgostiensis at the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz . In these qualities he works with internationally renowned artists, such as Nigel Kennedy or Albrecht Mayer .

Daniel Stabrawa is married to the concert pianist Elżbieta Stabrawa. With his daughter Maria Stabrawa, an internationally active violinist, he founded the Stabrawa Ensemble Berlin in 2007.

Discography (selection)

  • Recordings with “Thorofon”: 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 concerts in the 20th century , Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Capella Bydgostiensis, conductor: 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)

literature

  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Stabrawa Catholic parish of Mater Dolorosa, Berlin-Lankwitz