Daniel Dodds

1. Konzertmeister & Künstlerischer Leiter

Daniel Dodds is an inspiring musical force. Sein Enthusiasmus und seine fesselnde Energie auf der Bühne entlocken Mitmusikern und dem Publikum «joie de vivre».

Concerts have taken Daniel Dodds to major venues on every inhabited continent – as artistic director of the Festival Strings Lucerne, as soloist with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Oksana Lyniv, Alexander Briger and Stanley Dodds, and as a chamber musician, documented in numerous live radio and TV recordings. The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Sophia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Australian World Orchestra and the Festival Strings Lucerne are among the orchestras with which Daniel Dodds has worked as a soloist.

With his highly acclaimed solo CD “Time Transcending”, released by Oehms Classics, Daniel Dodds shows that he knows no limits on his instrument.

As artistic director of the Festival Strings, Daniel Dodds combines the warm expressive sound of the Festival Strings – the hallmark of the Viennese sound tradition of its founders Rudolf Baumgartner and Wolfgang Schneiderhan – together with a nuanced honed sense of style and musical timing to produce music that captivates with its richness of colour and drama.

This is confirmed by the press:

«Wie selbstverständlich begannen die fünf Sätze aus ihrem Inneren heraus zu leuchten. Barocke Rationalität und romantische Emotionalität ergänzten einander glücklich…»
Frankfurter Neue Presse

«Was Daniel Dodds bei Dvoràk vom ersten Pult aus leistete, war schlicht grossartig und fand in der Summe dieses Stücks an melodischer Intensität, sinnlichem Timbre und musikantische Vitalität eine beispielhafte Wiedergabe»
Neue Luzerner Zeitung

Daniel Dodds has added exciting performances of works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Milhaud, Vasks and Gubaidulina to the Festival Strings repertoire, as well as commissioned works by Swiss composers such as Luigi Laveglia and Stephan Hodel. Enthusiastic reactions from listeners all over the world have led to Daniel Dodds and the Festival Strings Lucerne becoming the first Swiss orchestra to be invited to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, inaugurating the Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium in Cremona and regularly performing at major festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Schleswig Holstein Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Musica Insieme Bologna and Hong Kong Music Festival.

Daniel Dodds appears regularly as concertmaster of the Australian World Orchestra in collaboration with acclaimed conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle and Simone Young. Engagements as guest concertmaster include concerts with Camerata Salzburg and Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

A passionate accompanist and advisor to young musicians and violinists, Daniel Dodds teaches a violin class at the Lucerne School of Music. He also meets and mentors young musicians on tours abroad and each summer during the Festival Strings Lucerne talent week.

Born in Australia to Australian Chinese parents, Daniel Dodds started playing the violin at the age of 5 with Alita Larsens. Er vervollständigte sein Geigenstudium bei Gunars Larsens in Luzern, Schweiz, sowie bei Keiko Wataya in Utrecht, Holland, und erhielt weitere Inspirationen von Persönlichkeiten wie Rudolf Baumgartner, Franco Gulli und Nathan Milstein, welcher beim Anhören von Daniel Dodds Darbietung einer Paganini Caprice bemerkte: «Wer ist dieser Geiger, er könnte wahrlich Paganinis Enkel sein!»
Daniel Dodds spielt die Stradivarius «Ex Hämmerle ex Baumgarnter» von 1717, die ihm von der Stiftung Festival Strings Lucerne zur Verfügung gestellt wird.

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