A unique violinist, Ariadne Daskalakis is a discerning musician with a profound understanding of musical language and a keen interest in its historical development. The flexibility and warmth of her tone are celebrated internationally by audiences and critics alike.
Highlights of her career include solo appearances with the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the Stuttgart Philharmonic as well as recitals in venues such as the Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonie Berlin and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. She has also regularly directed concerts with the Ensemble Oriol Berlin.
An extremely versatile artist, she has collaborated with various composers, creating new works and genres for the stage. A recent collaboration with composer Christoph Coburger resulted in a new music theatre work for violin and interactive video, "Herr K und Frau N". Furthermore, she has researched, performed and recorded lesser-known works by Joseph Joachim Raff and Giuseppe Tartini, the latter featured as the Naxos CD of the month on it's release in Germany and, when released world wide, as the Concerto selection of the month in the June 2007 edition of "The Strad". She is a founding member and leader of the Manon Quartet Berlin, which presents in its programs a broad range of repertoire, often involving historical performance practice.
Her performances have won her prizes in the Berlin Gyarfas Violin Competition, the International Competition of the ARD Munich (with pianist Miri Yampolsky) and the St. Louis Symphony Young Artists Competition, as well as from the Harvard Music Association, the New England Conservatory and the Dortmund Mozart Society. Her CD recordings are available on the labels Naxos, Tudor and Carpe Diem.
Born of Greek parentage in Boston, USA, Ariadne Daskalakis studied violin with Eric Rosenblith and Szymon Goldberg (at the Juilliard School) and in Berlin with Professors Ilan Gronich and Thomas Brandis. She holds degrees with honors from Harvard College and the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. In 2000 she became the youngest Professor of Violin at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne.
Having benefited from immersion in three different cultures, she adheres to American optimism and openmindedness, German honesty and discipline and Greek warmth and passion.
March 2008
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