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Name
  
Nicholas Daniel

Albums
  
Oboe Concertos

Music group
  
Britten Sinfonia


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Role
  
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Nicholas Daniel (born 9 January 1962) is a British oboist and conductor. In 2003 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Leicester International Music Festival.

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Education

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He was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and the Purcell School.

Awards

Nicholas Daniel won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 1980 and was awarded the 2011 Queen's Medal for Music.

Teaching posts

Daniel was Professor of Oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for ten years, then in 1997 became Professor of Oboe and Conducting at the Indiana University School of Music. He then was invited to be Prince Consort Professor of Oboe at the Royal College of Music in London. In 2004, he was named Professor of Oboe at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen, Germany.

Performing ensembles

Nicholas Daniel is a founding member of the Haffner Wind Ensemble and Britten Sinfonia, and formed a duo with pianist Julius Drake in 1981.

As Principal Oboe of Britten Sinfonia, Daniel has frequently appeared as a member of the orchestra and also as a soloist/director. In 2009 Britten Sinfonia released its first own label recording, which features Nicholas Daniel in John Tavener's Songs of the Sky.

Commissions

Daniel has commissioned and premiered many new works for the oboe, to increase its status as a solo instrument. Such works include:

  • Double Concerto by Simon Bainbridge (1990)
  • An Interrupted Endless Melody by Harrison Birtwistle (1991)
  • Sorella by Rory Boyle (2007).
  • First Grace of Light by Peter Maxwell Davies (1991)
  • The Fabric of Dreams by Michael Zev Gordon (2006)
  • Helios by Thea Musgrave (1994)
  • Two's Company by Thea Musgrave (2005)
  • Oboe Concerto by Nigel Osborne (1998)
  • The Fabric of Dreams by Michael Zev Gordon (2006)
  • Oboe Concerto by James MacMillan (2010).
  • Kaleidoscopes by John Tavener (2006)
  • Three Capriccios for solo oboe by John Woolrich (2001)
  • The Kingdom of Dreams by John Woolrich (1989)
  • Oboe Concerto by John Woolrich (1996)
  • Oboe Quintet by John Woolrich (1998)
  • Recordings

    Daniel has recorded many albums, both solo work and chamber music, such as:

  • Alwyn oboe concerto
  • Alwyn Chamber works
  • Alwyn Chamber works vol 2
  • Alwyn Orchestral works
  • Arnold Orchestral works: Fantasia Conifer
  • Berkeley oboe concerto
  • Bliss Chamber works
  • Finzi Orchestral works: Eclogue
  • Finzi, Howells, Patterson works for oboe & piano
  • Horovitz oboe concerto
  • Elena Langer Landscape With Three People
  • Martinu Sinfonia Concertante
  • Moeran Fantasy Quartet
  • Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat
  • Mozart Wind Concertos
  • Mozart Chamber works
  • Musgrave Helios; Memento Vitae
  • Strauss Sinfonia no 2; oboe concerto
  • Woolrich The Ghost in the Machine
  • French Chamber Music for Woodwinds
  • French Oboe Sonatas
  • Five Italian Oboe Concertos
  • Oboe Alone
  • Oboe Sonatas with Julius Drake
  • Vaughan Williams and MacMillan oboe concertos
  • References

    Nicholas Daniel Wikipedia