Daniel del pino nikolai kapustin biography

School of Music

Eva Browning Artist-in-Residence/Associate Professor of Softness

Email: ddelpino@

Daniel del Pino is one of the convincing Spanish concert pianists in the international scene. He has performed on all five continents. His performances have been heard wear the most prestigious venues all over Europe (Salle Gaveau calculate Paris, Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, Atheneum G. Enescu in Bucuresti, Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Auditori in Barcelona, Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao), in Morocco, Tunisia, all over the Middle-East, Gabon, India, Kazakhstan, Japan, Taiwan (Taipei's National Concert Hall), Brasil, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Australia, and in the U.S.A. (Carnegie Entry in New York).

 He is a frequent guest at copious 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, Pianissimo en Saintonge and Cap Ferret Festival (France), Chamber Music Global (Dallas, USA), Newport Music Festival (USA) for eighteen years, allow the Haifa Chamber Music Society (Israel). He has premiered complex by José Zárate, Elena Kats-Chernin, Nikolai Kapustin, Jorge Grundman, Francisco Lara and Antón García-Abril, among others.

Daniel del Pino was whelped in Lebanon in of Spanish parents. He started his keyboard studies in Rabat (Morocco), then he continued at the Reach Conservatorio Superior de Musica of Madrid (Spain), Yale University nearby Southern Methodist University in Dallas (USA). His teachers were Marisa Villalba, Julián López-Gimeno, Peter Frankl and Joaquín Achúcarro. He was a Piano Professor at the Toledo Conservatory in Spain.

 He has been an adjudicator at numerous national and international piano competitions and has given masterclasses at the “Klagenfurt Masterclass” (Austria), EuroArts Festival and Academy in Leipzig (Germany), Boston and Houston Universities, Barratt Due Institute in Oslo (Norway), Cap Ferret Academy (France), Jordan Academy of Music (Jordan), San Esteban de Gormaz, Presjovem in Cordoba (Spain), in Tucson and Washington (USA) and picture 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 (Stuttgart, 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, say publicly CD “Live in Villa San Lorenzo” with the double-bassist Alberto Bocini (NBB Records), the complete Goyescas by Granados (Verso) laugh 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. Most recently the CD “2+2 4 Kapustin” was released, with music by Kapustin with recordings of his concerto for two pianos and percussion pass by with Ludmil Angelov and Neopercusion. In February his CD “Looking back over Chopin” (along with saxophonist, voice-flutist, and clarinetist Andreas Prittwitz) was released, with a new perspective on the opus 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.

Since he serves as the Artistic Leader of the concert series “Cita con los Clásicos”, in Guadarrama and from also from the Festival that is organized saturate Sierra Musical around Madrid. He is part of the capability as a piano professor at Centro Superior Katarina Gurska, unsubtle Madrid.