Edward Daniel – Violin

Edward grew up in Shedfield in the Meon Valley, and started the violin age five.  He learnt locally before winning a music scholarship to Winchester College.  After finishing his Bachelor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, he studied his Artist’s Diploma at the Hochschuele für Musik, Hannover, in the class of Ulf Schneider.  He graduated with top marks. 

Edward has performed solo and chamber music in many of the major London venues including the Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall and St John’s Smith Square.

As a member of Camerata Freden, Germany, he has broadcast numerous times for German radio.  Last summer Ed recorded the Korngold Piano Quintet and String Sextet with the group, on the German recording label Tacet (www.tacet.de), which has just been released and won the German Record Critic’s Prize and been nominated for the ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) 2013 awards.

Ed is a regular attendee of festivals and masterclasses, recently performing at the Kronberg Masterclasses in Germany and the Aurora masterclasses in Sweden, the Festival de Musique de Menton, and the Festival de la Foret, both in France.

In 2012 Edward co-founded the Spencer Music Festival with the ’cellist Ulrikke Henninen.  The festival runs every October near Bishops’ Waltham in the Meon Valley.