Daniel Kawka
Musical and artistic director: International Richard Wagner Event, Léman Lyriques Festival, Ose! symphony orchestra
It is his love of sound that has shaped his musical personality, from Hendrix’s riffs to Wagner’s leitmotifs, from Beethoven’s works to the vast symphonic and lyrical frescoes in which instrument, voice, sound and word merge.
Daniel Kawka embodies the sound of each work, for each work. This is his musical and poetic uniqueness, his media recognition. It is on stage and in the orchestra pit, from the grand repertoire to new works, that the very essence of his musicality is expressed at the most intimate level of the works, between expressive fullness and lyricism.
Through his experience it is easy to weave a vocation, sketch out a biography, and celebrate an artistic activity driven by the ineffable attraction of the musical creations and the legitimate ambition to interpret them at the highest level of truth, awareness, and depth.
The Wagnerian Soul
“Daniel Kawka, a Wagnerian conductor, but how do we define the expression? Time, forebodings, imminence, doubts, the bite, the sense of necessity” Hugues Dufourt
Parsifal between exaltation and wonder! entre exaltation et émerveillement !
His passion-vocation was born from an encounter, a shock one August evening as a young student at the Ancient Theatre in Orange. On the program that night: Parsifal, with P. Hofmann, L. Ryzanek, W. Sawallisch.
A Wagnerian conductor unanimously recognized and celebrated by the press and media, in ten years of continuous and radiant evolution, from The Flying Dutchman and Tristan und Isolde— which revealed him—to Tannhäuser, which earned him acclaim at the Rome Opera. The Ring for Wagner’s Bicentennial, Lohengrin, and the Léman Lyriques Festival have placed him among the rare and privileged circle of conductors who have staged and conducted nearly all of Richard Wagner’s major works.
Parsifal! Soon to be featured in an exceptional operatic event between Berlin and Lucerne.
Medias, selection
R. Strauss – Salomé (final scene)
R. Wagner – Tristan und Isolde Act 1
C. Debussy – Pelléas et Mélisande (Act 1 et 2)
B. Bartok – Bluebeard’castle
M. Daugherty – Radio City
F. Busoni – Turandot