Daniel Pioro is a soloist, collaborative artist, and advocate for new and experimental music.

He actively promotes new music and is interested in finding new ways of listening to and creating sound, as well as developing strong collaborations with composers, artists, choreographers, dancers, and writers.

After making his debut at the BBC Proms in 2019, where his performance was described as “the most inventive and engaging” by The Daily Telegraph, Daniel continues to grow his international career.

The 2022/23 season sees Daniel become Artist in Residence at London’s iconic Southbank Centre, giving the London premiere of Tom Coult’s violin concerto Pleasure Garden and performing Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Manze. He then returns in January performing an all-day cycle of the Biber Rosary Sonatas with organist James McVinnie, and in March gives an electro-acoustic performance with Icelandic producer/performer Valgeir Sigurðsson, and viol player Liam Byrne also featuring Pioro’s group, Studio Collective. He ends the residency in May with Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons featuring new poetry read and written by Sir Michael Morpurgo and followed by Gérard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum with the London Sinfonietta. Joined by Anastasia Kobekina, Daniel performs the Brahms Double Concerto, continuing his relationship with the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Elena Schwarz.

In January 2023, Daniel releases his first album on the Platoon record label, Saint Boy, a collection of ancient and contemporary, sacred and secular music for solo violin, chamber organ and string quartet.

Highlights of previous seasons include Thomas Adès' Violin Concerto Concentric Paths and Colin Matthews’ Violin Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oliver Knussen and Bruch Violin Concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and a newly commissioned concerto, Parallax by Joseph Davies as well as Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Daniel returned last year to the Norfolk and Norwich Festival performing Biber’s complete Rosary Sonatas, and made his debut at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg performing music from his album Dust as well as other works by his close collaborator, Valgeir Sigurðsson.

“Physical movement, the written and spoken word, colour, sound in all its many forms... they feed into one another and become greater for it.” — Daniel Pioro on collaboration

During previous seasons Daniel and his regular duo partner Katherine Tinker performed numerous new works for violin and piano and new adaptations for violin and chamber organ for their debut at Snape Maltings Festival and return to the Wigmore Hall; the duo’s incredibly creative programmes included new compositions by Cassandra Miller, Nico Muhly, Linda Catlin Smith, Nick Martin, Laurence Crane, intertwined with well-known works by J. S. Bach and H. Biber. Orchestral projects included a live broadcast for BBC Radio 3 with BBC Philharmonic and Ryan McAdams performing a selection of works by Hildegard of Bingen, G. Tartini, H. Biber, and J. Rameau, arranged in collaboration with composer Tom Coult. In April 2021 Daniel joined the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in the new role of Associate Artist in Contemporary String Performance and launched a new contemporary music group called Studio Collective, designed to challenge students’ approach to choosing repertoire, engaging with the score, and their own musical decisions.

His celebrated association with the composer and guitarist Jonny Greenwood led Greenwood to write and dedicate a new violin concerto Horror vacui for Pioro. Daniel premiered the piece to much acclaim at the BBC Proms in 2019 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Hugh Brunt, which was praised by the BBC as “the ultimate display of musical virtuosity”. In September 2019, Daniel’s recording of Bach’s Partita No. 2 was the first release on Greenwood’s label, Octatonic Records.

“Daniel Pioro’s playing is the sound in my head when I write for the violin.” — Jonny Greenwood

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RACHEL BERTAUT, Senior Artist Manager rachel.bertaut@askonasholt.com

ISABELLA BARTLETT, Assistant Artist Manager isabella.bartlett@askonasholt.com