Paul Daniel
Who? Music Director of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia and judge on the BBC's All Together Now: The Great Orchestra Challenge
The extraordinary power of music makes no distinction between amateur and professional.
Why Get Playing? "It’s one of the glories of the UK that so many people play in amateur orchestras. The extraordinary power of music makes no distinction between amateur and professional: when an orchestra opens the music and sits down to play, every musician is searching for that moment when all their skills and talents come together to create the sound and colour and emotion that lies behind the little black dots on the page."
About Paul
Paul Daniel is an internationally renowned conductor.
Paul begun his musical career as a a chorister at Coventry Cathedral. He won a music scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge after which he studied conducting at the Guildhall School of Music.
Between 1982 and 1987 he was a member of the music staff of English National Opera. In 1987 he became chief conductor of the Music Factory, where he conducted operas by Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle and György Ligeti.
Between 1990 and 1997 Daniel was chief conductor of the Leeds-based Opera North where he conducted several productions of unusual repertoire, such as Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang, Korngold’s Violanta, and Verdi’s Jérusalem, as well as major repertory pieces such as Verdi’s Don Carlos.
He moved back to the English National Opera as chief conductor between 1997 and 2005 where he maintained his interest in contemporary music, conducting the première of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie in 2000.
Paul Daniel became Music Director of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine in 2013 and is also currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia.
Now, Paul will be looking for the orchestra that best captures the spirit of great British amateur music-making on BBC TV's All Together Now: The Great Orchestra Challenge.
