Daniel Lozakovich plays Mozart, Schumann and Brahms with Sergei Babayan

Chamber Music

Friday, 30 August 2019
7.30 pm, Saanen Church

He is quite simply the youngest musician ever recorded by Deutsche Grammophon. But this is no coincidence: Daniel Lozakovich made his debut in 2009 already with Vladimir Spivakov’s Moscow Virtuosi, and recorded a first CD of Bartók Duos in 2015 with Daniel Hope under the same yellow label, followed by a 100% Bach album in 2018. After a splendid performance of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto with Valery Gergiev and his St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra that same year, he is back in Saanen with a more intimate programme: three great sonatas and two character pieces for a festive evening. And above all, he is fortunate enough to be able to count on one of the best pianists of the moment, Sergei Babayan. A disciple of Vera Gornostayeva and Mikhail Pletnev at the Moscow Conservatory, founder in 1996 of the International Piano Academy of the Cleveland Institute of Music (where he had Daniil Trifonov as a pupil), Babayan recently made a mark by signing a magnificent two-piano album with Martha Argerich, published by Deutsche Grammophon and entitled "Prokofiev for Two", in which he proposes his own transcriptions of ballet suites and film music.