Daniel del Pino

Daniel del Pino is one of the leading Spanish concert pianists in the international scene. He has performed in all five continents. His performances have been heard in the most prestigious venues all over Europe (Salle Gaveau in Paris, Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, Atheneum G. Enescu in Bucharest, Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Auditori in Barcelona), in Morocco, Tunisia, all over the Middle-East, Gabon, India, Kazakhstan, Japan, Taiwan (Taipei’s National Concert Hall), Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Australia, and in the U.S.A. (Carnegie Hall in New York). He has been a soloist with the following orchestras: Symphonies of RTVE (Spanish Radio Television, Madrid), Clásica de España, Sevilla, Córdoba, Valencia, Galicia, Málaga, Castilla-León, Murcia, Chamber Orchestra Reina Sofía; and the Meadows, Winchester, Kenosha, San Angelo, Abilene, Garland, Las Colinas, New Arlington, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Medellín, Virtuosi di Praga, Soloists from the Almaty Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of India, Filharmonia Podkarpacka (Rzeszow, Poland), Bucharest Philarmonic “George Enescu” (Romania), Brasov, and Transilvania State Symphony Orchestras among others, with conductors such as: Max Bragado, Evgeny Bushkov, José Miguel Rodilla, Gloria Isabel Ramos, Enrique Garcia-Asensio, Alejandro Posada, Rubén Gimeno, Carlo Rizzi, Marco Gatti, Alfonso Saura, Carlos Riazuelo, Robert Carter Austin, Lanfranco Marcelletti, David Itkin, Héctor Guzmán…

He is a frequent guest at numerous festivals worldwide, Segovia, León, Zaragoza, Coruña, Valencia, Vigo, Gijón, Cadaqués, Ubeda, Ayamonte, Pau Casals (Vendrell), Otoño Soriano (Soria), Itu (Brasil), Morelia Festival (Mexico), Bravissimo Festival (Guatemala), Verbier (Switzerland), Musifleuves, Piano en Saintonge and Cap Ferret Festival (France), Chamber Music International (Dallas, USA), Newport Music Festival (USA) for twenty seasons, and the Haifa Chamber Music Society (Israel). He has premiered works by José Zárate, Elena Kats-Chernin, Nikolai Kapustin, Jorge Grundman, Francisco Lara and Antón García-Abril, among others. Most recently he premiered the Piano Concerto by Peter Fischer with the TTU Symphony Orchestra.

Daniel del Pino was born in Lebanon in 1972 of Spanish parents. A graduate from the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica of Madrid (Spain), Yale University and Southern Methodist University in Dallas (USA), he has taught at the Toledo Conservatory, Escuela Superior Katarina Gurska, Forum Musikae and in Musikene (San Sebastián), all in Spain.

He has been an adjudicator at numerous national and international piano competitions and has given masterclasses at “Klagenfurt Masterclass” (Austria), EuroArts Festival and Academy in Leipzig (Germany), Boston, Maryland, Southern Methodist (Dallas) and Houston Universities, The Hartt School of Music, Barratt Due Institute in Oslo (Norway), Cap Ferret Academy (France), Jordan Academy of Music (Jordan), San Esteban de Gormaz, Presjovem in Córdoba (Spain), in Tucson and Washington (USA) and the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (Birzeit University, Palestine).

His performances have been broadcasted by the RNE (Spanish Public Radio), RTVE (Spanish Public Television), SWR 2 (Sttutgart, Germany), Morelia (Mexico), Brasov, Bucharest and Cluj Televisions (Romania), Boston WGBH, Chicago WFMT, Dallas, Libreville, Taiwan National Television and Sydney ABC radios. He has recorded the complete Chopin etudes under the label Verso, the CD “Live in Villa San Lorenzo” with the double-bassist Alberto Bocini (NBB Records), the complete Goyescas by Granados (Verso) as well as the CDs “Minds” (violin and piano) and “No Seasons” (violin, voice, piano and orchestra) with violinist Ara Malikian and the Non-Profit Chamber Orchestra. He also recorded the CD “2+2 4 Kapustin”, with music by Kapustin with premiere recordings of his concerto for two pianos and percussion along with Ludmil Angelov and Neopercusion; “Looking back over Chopin” along with saxophonist, voice-flutist and clarinetist Andreas Prittwitz, with a new perspective on the music of Chopin, from an improvisational point of view. This CD was recorded and presented at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. Most recently he recorded “Gyspy Inspiration” with flutist Vicent Morelló for Eudora Records Label and Momentuum with clarinetist Juan Ferrer. Most recently his last CD with Turina Piano Trios was released under the label Brilliant Classics.

From 2010 to 2019 he served as the Artistic Director of the concert series “Cita con los Clásicos”, in Guadarrama and from 2014 also for the festival that is organized by Sierra Musical around the Madrid region. Since 2020 he is the Eva Browning Artist-in-residence Associate Professor of piano at Texas Tech University. He was awarded the Albéniz Medal for his interpretation of Suite Iberia by Albéniz in 2022 and in 2023 he recorded the piece for the label Cézanne Producciones, being released in July 2024. He recently recorded all piano trios by Joaquín Turina for Brilliant Classics.