Music at Ten: Daniel Herskovich

Daniel Herscovitch

Daniel Herskovich studied with Alexander Sverjensky at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and then under Rosl Schmid in Munich. While based in Germany, he performed extensively on the continent and in England. He also appeared at several international festivals, including the Berlin Festival, the Zagreb Biennale and the Saarbrücken Tage der Neuen Musik. He toured Australia three times.

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 New Directions Festival and the Festivals of Melbourne and Sydney. Daniel has toured for Musica Viva and also in New Zealand several times. He has been a guest artist with Synergy, Flederman, the Song Company and the Australia Ensemble and has toured with The Seymour Group. He also made regular appearances at Roger Woodward’s Sydney Spring Festival of New Music. He was soloist with Natalia Ricci in the first Sydney performance of the Bartók Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra and later was again one of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s concerto soloists, performing the Mozart Double Concerto with Josephine Allan. Others artists he has appeared with include Wanda Wilkomirska, Michael Kieran Harvey, Jane Manning, Stephanie McCallum, Darryl Poulsen, Ole Böhn and Gerard Willems.

Recently he made his third visit to the US, performing and lecturing from Texas to Washington, DC, and also visited Germany and the UK. In July 2012 he visited Indonesia for a series of piano recitals and masterclasses. Further visits to the US and Europe are planned for 2013/14.

Daniel’s repertoire ranges from Bach to Carter and includes contemporary Australian, Asian, European and American works, several of which he commissioned and premiered. He has also presented papers at conferences in Australia and Europe on ornamentation in Bach and in Beethoven, as well as on practice methods and is sought after as guest lecturer on subjects ranging from baroque performance to Bartók.
His recordings of repertoire ranging from Mozart to Smalley have been released on Tall Poppies, CSM, Continuum, Jade and ABC Classics labels. Three further CDs, including a disc of the Chopin Sonatas, are scheduled.

He is Senior Lecturer in Piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of music