Daniel Stabrawa

A native of Krakow, Poland, Daniel Stabrawa is the Principal Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. After winning many international competitions at a very young age and finishing his studies at his hometown Music Conservatory in the class of Professor Zbigniew Szelezer, he was appointed concertmaster of the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Krakow in 1979. He joined the Berlin Philharmonic violin section in 1983 and was appointed concertmaster of the Orchestra in 1986 under Herbert von Karajan. In addition to his orchestral duties he has built a distinguished career as a soloist and chamber music player. Daniel Stabrawa has often appeared as a soloist with the Berlin based orchestras in works by Prokofiev, Weill and Szymanowski and has toured extensively in the United States and Asia. Together with his wife, pianist Elzbieta Stabrawa he has given many concerts dedicated to Sonatas and has been an avid supporter and messenger of Karol Szymanowski’s music. Since 1994 Daniel Stabrawa has devoted more time to conducting and at the beginning of the 1995/1996 season became music director and conductor of the Capella Bydgostiensis in Bromberg, Germany.