Biography

Resumé

One of the most exciting conductors of his generation, conductor Marlon Daniel has been described as „a natural and enormous talent“ (Chicago Sun-Times) and his artistry has been hailed as “fabulous and exceptional” (Pravda – Moscow). The winner of the 2009 John and Mary Virginia Foncannon Conducting Award, he has performed in some of the most prestigious venues in Europe and the United States that range from Carnegie Hall to the Rudolfinum in Prague and several international music festivals. He has also appeared alongside several internationally renowned artists that have included Deborah Voigt, Julian Milkis, Kalin Ivanov, Koh Gabriel Kameda and Magali Léger to name a few.

He has received numerous prizes and awards including the Mabel Henderson Memorial Grant for Foreign Experience, a Rose Hanus Fellowship, an Honorary Key to the City of Chicago for Outstanding Musical Achievement bestowed by the late Mayor Harold Washington and most recently the 2008 ‘Voice of the Artist’ Award from the United Nations in recognition of his charitable work of bringing awareness to the crisis in Darfur.

Educated in both the United States and Europe, he has received degrees from some of the most prestigious institutions in the world including Manhattan School of Music, Le Conservatoire Américain (France), Centro de Estudios Musicales Isaac Albéniz (Spain) and both the Prague Academy and Conservatory, where he received his formative training in conducting whilst serving as Associate Conductor of the Praga Sinfonietta. His musical development has been shaped by the influence of Arkady Aronov, Jiří Bělohlávek, Dmitri Bashkirov, Gaby Casadesus, Alexander Edelman, Vladimir Feltsman, Richard Goode, Tomáš Koutník, Lev Natochenny, Miriam Nemcová, Larry Rachleff, Jerome Rose, Louis Salemno, Kirk Trevor, František Vajnar, Oxana Yablonskaya and Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic as winner of the James and Lola Faust Fellowship.

Currently Maestro Daniel is Music Director and Conductor of Ensemble du Monde (chamber orchestra), Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Saint-Georges International Festival in Guadeloupe and Principal Conductor of the New Horizons Symphony Orchestra of the Festival of African and African American Music (fesaam.org), where he collaborates with some of today’s most prolific Black composers in their world premiere new works.