Daniel de Borah

Piano

Born in Melbourne in 1981, Daniel de Borah studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire and with Tatyana Sarkissova at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with Distinction in 2006. In 2005 he was selected by YCAT and in 2007 won the piano section of the Royal Over-Seas League Competition. His teachers have included Zsuzsa Eszto, Mira Jevtic and Nina Seryogina.

 

Daniel has already performed widely in Australia, Europe and Russia including concerts at Sydney Opera House (Concert Hall & Opera Theatre), the St Petersburg Small Philharmonic Hall, St Petersburg State Cappella, Vilnius Academy of Music and the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra.

 

Recent engagements in the UK have included concerts at the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Fairfield Halls and St. George’s Bristol, and appearances with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra, Haverhill Sinfonia and London Soloists Chamber Orchestra. Future plans include return visits to Wigmore Hall as soloist and with tenor Andrew Goodwin, a tour of Australia, recitals at Bridgewater Hall and in Edinburgh and appearances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican and Cadogan Hall.

 

During his studies Daniel won numerous awards including 3rd Prizes at the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, the 2001 Tbilisi International Piano Competition and the 2000 Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam Competition in Poland.

 

Daniel is grateful for support from the Australian Music Foundation, Ars Musica Australis, the Countess of Munster Trust, Myra Hess Trust, Hattori Foundation and the Tait Memorial Trust.

 

 

...a stunning example of superb technical control entirely at the service of the music.

Sutton Coldfield December 2006

 

 

‘The second concert in the Philharmonic Society’s season brought the young Australian pianist Daniel de Borah to the Town Hall in a series of masterful performances…Chopin’s four Impromptus closed the first half. These were aristocratic performances of the first rank. No romantic maundering here, but tensile, athletic performances with a swirling energy as well as a quiet delicacy very much suited to these intimate pieces…a stunning example of superb technical control entirely at the service of the music…A rich and dark Rachmaninov encore concluded an exceptional concert.

Sutton Coldfield December 2006

 

 

‘I was immediately impressed by his pianism, his musicianship and his ability to draw the listener into his musical world.’
Stephen Hough December 2004

'Daniel precisely located both the lyrical introspection and sardonic mood of Prokofiev's G minor concerto. (...) Audiences can hope to hear lots more of this thoughtful and intelligent pianist'.
Sydney Morning Herald Sydney International Piano Competition July 2004