DANIEL KIDANE

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Daniel Kidane’s music has been performed extensively across the United Kingdom and abroad and aired on BBC Radio 3.  Daniel began musical studies on violin at age eight and received composition lessons at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and in St Petersburg, receiving lessons in composition from Sergey Slonimsky. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of Gary Carpenter and David Horne.

Highlights include orchestral works Woke, premiered at the Last Night of the Proms, and Zulu; commissions for Mahan Esfahani and Michala Petri premiered at Wigmore Hall; a new work for the CBSO Youth Orchestra; a chamber work for the Cheltenham Festival; a song cycle commissioned by Leeds Lieder and inspired by the poetry of Ben Okri; and Dream Song for Roderick Williams and the Chineke! Orchestra for the reopening of the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Recent works premiered during the Covid-19 lockdowns include The Song Thrush and Mountain Ash for Huddersfield Choral Society with text by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage; Dappled Light for violinists Maxine Kwok and Julian Gil Rodriguez; and Be Still for the Manchester Camerata followed by performances by San Francisco Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. Revel, inspired by Manchester Carnival was commissioned by the BBC Proms for the Kanneh-Mason family.

Highlights of the 2022-2023 season include the world premiere of Sun Poem, a co-commission by the London Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony, performed at the Edinburgh International Festival, Musikfest Berlin, Lucerne Festival, Grafenegg Festival and in San Francisco conducted by Esa Pekka Salonen.

Photo: Kaupo Kikkas