Nicholas Daniel

Nicholas Daniel & Julius Drake , Leicester International Music Festival
2025-01-16 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Hansom Hall, Leicester, 50-54 Belvoir Street, Leicester, LE1 6QL
One of Britain’s best-known musicians, Nicholas Daniel OBE won the BBC Young Musician competition in 1980, after which he quickly established his career, travelling all over the world, broadcasting widely, and making many critically acclaimed recordings of both new and familiar music.
This programme – with the very distinguished pianist, Julius Drake – features a wide selection of chamber music by Robert Schumann, alongside the Three Romances by Clara Schumann. At the time these pieces were written, there was a rapidly growing interest in amateur music making in the home, fuelled by a burgeoning middle class. Brahms, Schumann, and Mendelssohn all contributed significantly to the array of works published for this market, and it was quite normal practise for parts to be substituted for whatever instruments happened to be available. So, although the Three Romances, Op. 94 are the only works originally composed for the oboe, the programme is not only musically rewarding in its own right, but also in keeping with what the Schumanns would have considered normal practise.

CBSO Winds Play Mozart
2025-01-26 15:00 (Europe/London) | Town Hall, Birmingham, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B3 3DQ, United Kingdom
TWO PEARLS OF BEAUTY FOR WIND ENSEMBLE
Anna Clyne: Overflow
Mozart: Gran Partita for 13 Winds
Anna Clyne was inspired by Emily Dickinson’s enigmatic poetry for Overflow in which the poet flirts with the mighty power of the sea. The wind ‘dectet’ portrays both the seabed, and the playful, sometimes sinister, creatures and forces within. Mozart’s Gran Partita is simply sublime – in the 1984 film Amadeus, Salieri is overcome with wonder on hearing it: “This was a music I’d never heard. Filled with such longing…”
Nicholas Daniel – oboe/director

Orion Orchestra - Voices Through Time
2025-02-19 19:30 (Europe/London) | Smith Square Hall, London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Haffner Symphony
Joseph Bologne: Symphony No.2 in D major
Hannah Kendall: I may turn to salt (British Premiere)
Orion Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Daniel

Orsino Ensemble at Reading Town Hall
2025-02-25 19:30 (Europe/London) | Reading Town Hall, Blagrave Street, Reading, RG1 1QH, United Kingdom
Haydn | Music for a mechanical clock
Valerie Coleman | Umoja
Nielsen | Wind Quintet Op.43
Haas | Wind Quintet Op.10
Beethoven (arr. Rechtman) | Quintet in E flat Major Op.71
The Orsino Ensemble is a flexible format chamber ensemble with a central focus on the five outstanding wind players at its core. Each a leader in their field, the group’s members are committed to showcasing the depth and versatility of the wind chamber repertoire; expanding and reducing the ensemble’s format as needed across their different programmes. The ensemble was founded in 2018.

Adam Walker, Flute
Nicholas Daniel, Oboe
Matthew Hunt, Clarinet
Amy Harman, Bassoon
Alec Frank-Gemmill, Horn

Orsino Ensemble at Lakeside Arts
2025-02-27 19:30 (Europe/London) | Djanogly Recital Hall, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, University Boulevardd, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
Haydn: Music for a mechanical clock
Valerie Coleman: Umoja
Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet
Pavel Haas: Wind Quintet
Beethoven: Quintet (Sextet, Op.71 arr. Rechtman)
The Orsino Ensemble is a flexible ensemble with a central focus on five outstanding wind players: Adam Walker, flute, Nicholas Daniel, oboe, Matthew Hunt, clarinet, Amy Harman, bassoon and Alec Frank Gemmil, horn. Leaders in their field, the group’s members are committed to showcasing the depth and versatility of the wind chamber repertoire. Nielsen’s Wind Quintet combines some of the most glorious music written for winds with an affectionate portrait of the musicians he was writing for.

Orsino Ensemble at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2025-02-28 13:15 (Europe/London) | Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, North Road, Cardiff, CF10 3ER, United Kingdom
Haydn: Music for a Mechanical Clock
Valerie Coleman: Umoja
Nielsen: Wind Quintet
Five musicians can tell a thousand stories. Haydn took his inspiration from an 18th century musical box, Nielsen imagines musical instruments conversing down a telephone, and Valerie Coleman sings a song of unity and hope from the soul of Africa. Enjoy all this – and more – when the all-star players of the Orsino Ensemble swing into Cardiff this lunchtime.

BBC Symphony Orchestra: Nil Venditti conducts Ravel, Musgrave and Say
2025-03-06 14:30 (Europe/London) | BBC Maida Vale Studios, 120-129 Delaware Rd, London, W9 2LG, United Kingdom
Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Thea Musgrave: In Memoriam (BBC Radio 3 Commission & World Premiere)
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Adieu (World Premiere)
Fazil Say: Symphony No.5 (UK Premiere)
Performers
Johan Dalene, violin
Nicholas Daniel, oboe and cor anglais
Nil Venditti, conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Britten Oboe Quartet in Kilkenny
2025-03-09 16:00 (Europe/London) | The Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle, The Parade, Kilkenny, R95 YRK1, Ireland
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio for cor anglais and string trio K580a
Elizabeth Maconchy: Oboe Quartet
Ernest John Moeran: Fantasy Quartet
***Interval***
Jacqueline Shave: Artin
Danish Traditional: Sonderhø Bridal Trilogy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major K370/368b

Britten Oboe Quartet - Irish Connections
2025-03-11 19:30 (Europe/London) | St Joseph’s Church, Galway, 24 Presentation Road, Galway, H91 NCW0, Ireland
The Britten Oboe Quartet, led by star oboist Nicholas Daniel, presents a typically eclectic programme including two masterpieces by Mozart and two composers with strong Irish links – Elizabeth Maconchy always considered herself an Irish composer, while Ernest Moeran spent much time in Kenmare, where he died in 1950.
MOZART Adagio K. 580a
MACONCHY Oboe Quartet
MOERAN Phantasy Quartet
SHAVE Artin
Danish trad Sonderho Bridal Trilogy
MOZART Oboe Quartet K. 370

Britten Oboe Quartet - Irish Connections
2025-03-12 19:30 (Europe/London) | Campbell’s Tavern, Headford, Co. Galway, Cloughanover, Headford, County Galway, H91 T4A8, Ireland
As part of the MfG Encore series, a slightly shorter version of last night’s programme will be repeated in Headford in partnership with The Platform Series at Campbell’s Tavern.
MOZART Adagio K. 580a
SHAVE Artin
Danish trad Sonderhø Bridal Trilogy
MOZART Oboe Quartet K. 370

Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
2025-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Tampere Hall, Yliopistonkatu 55, Tampere, 33100, Finland
Pekka Kuusisto, conductor
Nicholas Daniel, cor anglais
J.S. Bach/Max Reger: O mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß
Outi Tarkiainen: Milky Ways, Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra
Ida Moberg: Sunrise Orchestral Suite
Daníel Bjarnason: Emergence

Messiaen's Et Exspecto
2025-04-30 19:00 (Europe/London) | St George’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, London, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 7HY, United Kingdom
Nicholas Daniel,conductor
Britten Sinfonia
Sinfonia Smith Square
Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Stravinsky: Mass; Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Motets by Duruflé, Poulenc and Messiaen
Principal oboist Nicholas Daniel conducts the massed wind, brass and percussion players of Britten Sinfonia and Sinfonia Smith Square in a programme that pivots around Messiaen’s gigantic, and rarely performed, tribute to the dead of two World Wars. With forces uniquely coloured by a vast array of cowbells, gongs and tam tams, the stark monoliths of sound summon a mighty sense of awe that makes Et Exspecto a bucket-list concert experience.

Camerata Pacifica
2025-05-16 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108, United States
William Bolcom – Orphée-Sérénade
Chopin – Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante in E Flat Major, Op. 22
Lera Auerbach – Dreammusik
“Dreammusik“ was commissioned for Ani Aznavoorian and Camerata Pacifica by Sandra Tillisch Svoboda in memory of her husband Al.
Nicholas Daniel, Sooyoun Kim – oboe
Jose Franch-Ballester – clarinet
Kathleen McLean – bassoon
Steve Becknell – horn
Jolente de Maeyer, Jason Uyeyama – violin
Che-Yen Chen – viola
Ani Aznavoorian, Andrew Janss – cello
Timothy Eckert – double bass
Ji Hye Jung – percussion
Irina Zahharenkova – piano

Camerata Pacifica
2025-05-18 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Scherr Forum, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd,, Thousand Oaks, CA, 91362, United States

Camerata Pacifica
2025-05-20 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA, 91108, United States

Camerata Pacifica
2025-05-22 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Colburn School, 200 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States

Academy of St Thomas, Norwich
2025-06-21 19:30 (Europe/London) | Salle Church, Norwich, Reepham, Norfolk, NR10 4SE, United Kingdom
Music for a mid-summer’s evening featuring Nicholas Daniel OBE, oboe and director
Schubert: Symphony No. 3
Haydn: Oboe Concerto
Victoria Poleva: White Interment for solo oboe and strings
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

Proms at St Jude's - Classical Pride
2025-06-26 19:30 (Europe/London) | St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Central Square, London, Central Square, London NW11 7AH, United Kingdom
Nicholas Daniel oboe, Rebecca Miller conductor, London Mozart Players
Shaw: Entr’acte for String Orchestra
Barber: Canzonetta for oboe and strings
Vaughan Williams: Concerto in A minor for oboe and strings
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Proms at St Jude’s often takes place during Pride Month, and tonight ? nearly 55 years to the day since the first Pride marches in June 1970, following the 1969 Stonewall Uprising ? we celebrate three LGBTQ+ composers and the immense contribution they have made in the history of classical music. Caroline Shaw is the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music and described Entr’acte as ‘like a minuet and trio, riffing on that classical form but taking it a little further; [it] suddenly takes you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass, in a kind of absurd, subtle, technicolor transition’. American Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings is one of the most recognisable pieces of classical music in the world – it was used at Franklin Roosevelt’s funeral and after JFK’s assassination ? and Tchaikovsky’s heartfelt Serenade for Strings is considered to be one of the late Romantic era’s definitive compositions.

Nørre Vosborg Kammermusikfestival 2025, Denmark
2025-06-27 19:30 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Nørre Vosborg, Vembvej 35, Vemb, 7570
Ensemble MidtVest celebrates the end of the season with a wonderful tradition with a chamber music festival at the manor Nørre Vosborg near Holstebro.
This year’s guest, the oboist Nicholas Daniel, is not only the star soloist for the festival, but he has also helped to plan the program so that the audience can be sure that the most beautiful works in classical music will be played.
Works which are both from well-known composers and those who are not often heard, come from underrepresented groups and who can give voice to all the different tones and musicians in the classical world.

Nørre Vosborg Kammermusikfestival 2025, Denmark
2025-06-27 22:00, 2025-06-28 19:30 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Worcestershire

La Jolla Music Society - Prodigies
2025-08-02 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall, 7600 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Marvel at the remarkable beauty of early masterpieces by history’s greatest prodigies who revolutionized the world of chamber music.
HANDEL: Trio Sonata for Oboe, Violin and Continuo in C Minor
Nicholas Daniel, oboe; Stefan Jackiw, violin; Ruben Valenzuela, harpsichord; Jakob Giovanni Taylor; cello
MOZART: Piano Quartet in G Minor, K.478
Inon Barnatan, piano; Alan Gilbert, violin; Jonathan Vinocour, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello
KORNGOLD: String Sextet in D Major, Op. 10
Liza Ferschtman, Blake Pouliot, violins; Jonathan Vinocour, Kyle Armbrust, violas; Ivan Karizna, Jonathan Swensen, cellos

La Jolla Music Society - Strauss Four Last Songs with Renée Fleming
2025-08-05 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall, 7600 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Renowned conductor Alan Gilbert and legendary soprano Renée Fleming join forces to bring Strauss’ iconic masterpiece the Four Last Songs to life. Messiaen’s haunting Quartet for the End of Time adds a powerful depth, creating a night of gripping, passionate music that is not to be missed!

MESSIAEN

Quatuor pour la fin du Temps
Inon Barnatan, piano; Alan Gilbert, violin; Nicolas Altstaedt, cello; Ricardo Morales, clarinet
STRAUSS
Four Last Songs (arranged by James Ledger)
Renée Fleming, soprano; SummerFest Chamber Orchestra; Alan Gilbert, conductor

La Jolla Music Society - Strung Together
2025-08-08 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall, 7600 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Experience the synergy of composer-performers Montgomery, Ysaÿe, and Dvo?ák, each intimately bound to the strings they played as they forged new frontiers.

JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Concerto Grosso
Stefan Jackiw, violin solo; Nicholas Daniel, oboe, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Jake Dongyoung Shim*, violins; Kyle Armbrust, viola; Anthony Manzo, bass; Stephanie Tang*, piano
YSAŸE: Sonata for Two Violins
Vilde Frang, Stephan Waarts, violins
DVO?ÁK: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
Inon Barnatan, piano; Noah Bendix-Balgley, Stefan Jackiw, violins; Teng Li, viola, Alisa Weilerstein, cello

Tallinn Chamber Music Festival
2025-08-27 19:00 (Europe/London) | Tallinn Town Hall, Raekoja plats 1, Tallinn, 10146, Estonia
Nicholas Daniel and Friends – Infinite Love
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Oboe Quartet, F Major, KV370
Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
Romances, Op. 22
Ástor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
“Oblivion”
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
“Alborada del Grazioso”
Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
Oboe Quintet, GP 258
Nicholas Daniel (oboe, UK)
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, Ivi Ots (violin)
violist Kaija Lukas (viola)
cellist Indrek Leivategija (cello)
double bassist Regina Udod (double bass)

Leicester International Music Festival
2025-09-17 19:30 (Europe/London) | Hansom Hall, Leicester, 50-54 Belvoir Street, Leicester, LE1 6QL
Ravel, arr Douvas: Alborada del Grazioso for oboe and piano
Emma-Ruth Richards: Étude for piano
Schubert: Impromptu Op 90 No 1 in C Minor
Ravel: Tzigane for violin and piano
Interval
Schubert: Trout Quintet, D667
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Charles Owen (piano)
Anna Liisa-Bezrodney (violin)
Rachel Roberts (viola)
Jan-Erik Gustavsson (cello)
Lynda Houghton (double bass)

Leicester International Music Festival
2025-09-18 13:00 (Europe/London) | Hansom Hall, Leicester, 50-54 Belvoir Street, Leicester, LE1 6QL
Ravel: Sonata No.2 in G major for violin and piano
Ravel: Waltzes Nobles et Sentimentales
Emma-Ruth Richards: De Stamparare for solo oboe
Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Charles Owen (piano)

Leicester International Music Festival
2025-09-19 19:30 (Europe/London) | Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE1 7HA, United Kingdom
World Premiere of Emma-Ruth Richards: Still Life, a multi-media composition for oboe, viola and cello
Poetry by Nicola Chalmers
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
Rachel Roberts, viola
Gemma Rosefield, cello

Sinfonia Viva - Derby
2025-09-24 19:00 (Europe/London) | Derby Cathedral, 18-19 Iron Gate, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 3GP, United Kingdom
Joseph Bologne | Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.11
Mozart | Oboe Concerto
Hannah Kendall | …I May Turn to Salt
Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
Nicholas Daniel OBE | oboe and conductor
Sophie Rosa | violin
Wenhan Jiang | viola
Mozart’s only Oboe Concerto has an unusual history. It was lost for more than 100 years and only rediscovered in 1920 in a pile of scores in an archive in Salzburg. But there’s nothing forgettable about this music. As exuberant and fresh as any concerto Mozart composed, it has a theatrical energy that will make you feel like you’re taking your seat for a night at the opera – or just being carried away on a fresh Summer breeze. Who better to perform it than one of Britain’s best-known oboists and a master of this repertoire, Nicholas Daniel OBE, in his first concert with Sinfonia Viva.
Nicholas turns conductor for the rest of our concert, which features two pieces he is known for championing. He conducted the UK premiere of …I May Turn To Salt by British composer Hannah Kendall earlier this year in London, and this concert will be only the second time it is performed in this country. That London premiere also featured tonight’s opening number, the Symphony No. 2 in D Major by one of Mozart’s 18th century contemporaries, the composer, virtuoso violinist and champion fencer, Joseph Bologne. This is upbeat music is sure to put a smile on your face, with a melody that, even if you’re hearing it for the first time, you’ll feel like you’ve known it all your life.
The climax of the concert is a chance for two of our string players to step forward and shine. Sophie Rosa (violin) and Wenhan Jiang (viola) perform Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, described by Gramophone Magazine as “an iconic work for many Mozart lovers, and arguably the greatest music he wrote in Salzburg”. A fabulous mixture of the light and dark in Mozart’s music, the vivacious final movement is nevertheless guaranteed to send you home with a spring in your step.

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
2025-10-10 13:15 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, North Road, Cardiff, CF10 3ER, United Kingdom
Nicholas Daniel & Catherine Milledge
Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
Rubbra: Sonata in C major
Reena Esmail: Two movements from Pranayam (Dirgh & Kapalbhati)
Deslandres: Introduction and Polonaise
