Biography
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Daniel Herscovitch studied with Alexander Sverjensky at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Rosl Schmid in Munich. While based in Germany he performed extensively on the continent and in England and toured Australia three times. He also appeared at several important festivals including the Berlin Festival, the Zagreb Biennale and the Saarbrücken Tage der Neuen Musik.
Since returning to Australia he has been active in solo and chamber music, and has appeared at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Australian Duo Piano Festival, the New Directions Festival and the Festivals of Melbourne and Sydney. He was a regular guest artist at Roger Woodward’s Sydney Spring Festival and has toured for Musica Viva and in New Zealand. He has appeared with Synergy, Flederman, the Song Company and the Australia Ensemble and has toured with The Seymour Group. He was a soloist in the first Australian performance of the Bartók Concerto for Two Pianos and has appeared in concert with Jane Manning, Wanda Wilkomirska, Clemens Leske, Christopher Latham, Geoffrey Gartner, Bernadette Harvey, Benjamin Kopp, Carl Vine and Ole Böhn. He has toured the USA four times, most recently performing Bach’s Art of Fugue. He has been a regular visitor to Indonesia and his fifth European tour in 2019 took him to Singapore, the UK, Norway and Germany where he performed Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis and included a residency at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. His solo repertoire ranges from Purcell to Carter and beyond, and includes contemporary Australian, Asian, European and American works, several of which he commissioned and premiered. His recordings of repertoire from the 17th to the 21st centuries have been released on Toccata Classics, Tall Poppies, CSM, Continuum, Biodiversity, Move and ABC Classics labels. His recent CD on the Toccata Classics label of music by Roger Smalley was Editor’s Choice in the 2019 Awards issue of Gramophone. His recent CD of music by Peter Dart was praised in the US journal Fanfare as being “stunning” and “brilliant”. A further CD of music by Don Banks was released in the UK to glowing reviews in 2022. Two further CDs of music by Kate Moore and Australian clarinet trios are scheduled for release in early 2024. He is currently Associate Professor of Piano at The University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music. View: Bach: The Art of Fugue: https://youtu.be/0NlQ3Dy4MMA (Leeds 2018) Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis: https://youtu.be/gxWe-yArts0 (Leeds 2019) Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen: with Vivian Choi (Sydney 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuNlkaB2MHQ |
“Technically flawless. However technique was never an end in itself, but always served the spiritual content of the music.” - Vaterland |
