GUEST CONDUCTORS
DANIEL RAISKIN
Chief Conductor - Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Koblenz
Permanent Conductor - Wroclaw State Philharmonic Orchestra "Witold Lutoslawski"
Principle Guest Conductor - Ural State Philharmonic Orchestra, Yekaterinburg
Principle Conductor - Mikkeli City Orchestra, Finland
Daniel Raiskin ranks among the most versatile musicians of his generation and has established himself as one of the leading European Violists before embarking on a career of a Conductor.
Born 1970 in St. Petersburg and trained in the best Russian-European musical tradition he has studied Viola with D. Meerovich and O. Balabin in St. Petersburg and Kim Kashkashian in Freiburg. At the same time Mr. Raiskin has studied Orchestral Conducting with Lev Savich in St. Petersburg and at various master classes with Neeme Järvi, Mariss Jansons, Milan Horvat and Jorma Panula among others.
His international career brought him to such major venues as Musikverein Vienna, Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tonhalle Zürich, Cologne Philharmonie, Munich Philharmonie, St.Petersburg Philharmonie, Victoria Hall Geneva, Sala Verdi del Concervatorio Milano, Grosse Festspielhaus and Mozarteum Salzburg as well as the New York's Lincoln Center.
Daniel Raiskin has frequently performed with a great number of leading orchestras, including the: Wiener Symphoniker, the Residentie Orchestra in the Haague, St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, Orchestre National de Lille, Staatskapelle Weimar, Staatsphilharmonie Reinland-Pfalz, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Athens State Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Norddeutsche Philharmonie, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and many others.
He has collaborated with such renowned soloists as Natalia Gutman, Shlomo Mintz, Viktor Tretjakov, Benjamin Schmid, Martin Fröst, Steven Osborne, Enrico Pace, Vladimir Mendessohn, Ralf Gotoni, Alexei Lubimov and many others.
As from 2003 Daniel Raiskin is Permanent Guest Conductor of the Wroclaw State Philharmonic Orchestra "W. Lutoslawski", which he has led on a highly acclaimed tour of Poland, Germany and The Netherlands in February 2003. His recent and near future conducting engagements include concerts with such orchestras as St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Oulu and Kuopio Symphony Orchestras, Ostrobotnian Chamber Orchestra, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Norrland Opera as well as many others.
From season 2004-2005 Daniel Raiskin has also assumed the position of Principle Guest Conductor with the Ural State Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia's third largest city Yekaterinburg. In March 2004 a tour of Austria, Switzerland and Germany with Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra was an important part of his schedule.
In October the same year Daniel Raiskin has conducted Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg in his debut concert at the Grosse Festspielhaus Salzburg and was immediately reinvited.
Daniel Raiskin has been appointed chief conductor of Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie in Koblenz from the season 2005-2006. In October 2005 he will take the Czech National Symphony Orchestra on tour of Germany and the Netherlands and will perform at some of Europe's most important venues (Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Grosse Festspielhaus, Tonhalle Zürich, Antwerp Philharmonie, Köln Philharmonie, Essen Philharmonie) touring with the Wroclaw State Philharmonic Orchestra again in February 2006.
