Daniel Propper - Biography
Born in Stockholm in 1969 of a Swedish mother and a father of Viennese origin, Daniel Propper settled in Paris in 1994, where he now enjoys an international concert career. At a very early age Daniel began studying with the great Swedish pedagogue Gunnar Halhagen and later worked with the legendary pianist Tatiana Nikolaieva, who encouraged him to perform The Goldberg Variations at The Salzburg Festival in 1990. After spending one year at the famous Juillard School in New York, he obtained his soloist degree in 1993 at The Swedish Royal Academy of Music. He later studied with Bernard Ringeissen in France and then completed the two year postgraduate program at The Paris Conservatoire. His teachers included Jacques Rouvier, Bruno Rigutto and Gerard Fremy. Daniel won a great many awards and prizes including in 1990 the biggest grant ever allocated by The Swedish Royal Academy of Music and fist prize at the Kil International Piano Competition in Sweden. He has interpreted a vast number of concertos, notably Concerto No 3 by Rachmaninoff with The Stockholm Symphony Orchestra conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, and ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ by Gerswin with the Ile de France National Orchestra. In chamber music, he has played with the violinists Anastasia Khitruk and Jack Liebeck, cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand and pianist Noel Lee. The last years include performances in Canada at Boris Brott’s Summer Festival (The Goldberg Variations), China (Piano aux Jacobins Festival held in Beijing’s Forbidden City) The United Emirates ( Abu Dhabi Festival) , Sweden (Royal Palace Festival of Stockholm) and throughout France. After his acclaimed London debut in Wigmore Hall in January 2007, he also performed as soloist in Oxford, Vienna and Budapest as well as in a Grieg Festival in Paris. Daniel’s recordings on CD include the first of three volumes of Grieg’s complete ‘Lyric Pieces’, ‘Last American Dream’ by Bentam, The Goldberg Variations by Bach, ‘19 Short Pieces’ and Grieg’s ‘Holberg Suite’, ‘Ballad’ and ‘Sonata’. Among his recent projects is the recital with Schubert’s three last sonatas (D. 958-960) in the Wigmore Hall in June 2008.
Website : www.danielpropper.com / Email : contact@danielpropper.com Agent artistique pour la France, la Belgique et la Suisse : Emmanuel Joulin (licence n° 1069) Tél : + 33 (0)1 77 13 40 18 / Mob : +33 (0)6 76 39 89 62 Email : ej@emmanuel-joulin.com / Web : www.emmanuel-joulin.com UK and North America representatvie: Sheelin De Freyne / Tel: + 44 077 668 708 08 / Email : defreyne@aol.com