Daniel Kawka

Born in 1959; the conductor Daniel Kawka comes from Firminy in the Loire department. He studied literature as well as conducting at the conservatoires of Lyon and Saint-Étienne, and instrumental composition with György Ligeti, Elliott Carter and Klaus Huber; he is an agrégé in musicology and holds a doctorate in musical analysis. In 1992 he founded the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (EOC), of which he is the artistic director. In 2002 he took over the artistic direction of the Festival Pierre Boulez in Saint-Étienne and in the same year launched the Festival Philharmonique, which is devoted to the French and German repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is principal conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin. His opera productions include Busoni’s “Turandot” in Dijon, Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” in Seoul and Debussy’s “Rodrigue et Chimène” in Saint Petersburg.