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Daniel Pini

Cellist and conductor.

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Daniel Pini

Conducting

2024, 2026

Woollahra Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney

2019 to 2022

Assistant conductor, The People's Orchestra and The Rusty Orchestra, England

Since 2019

900 Ensemble (Switzerland), Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra, The Film Orchestra (including the 2024 Forest Film Festival) and Locus Ensemble (England). English premiere of Caerwen Martin's Stars Come Out in a Midnight Sky.

Mentors

Assistant to David Curtis. Mentored by Alexander Briger. Contemporary repertoire with Arturo Tamayo.

Cello

Guest cellist

Philharmonia Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Venues include the Elbphilharmonie, Berliner Philharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris and Sydney Opera House.

Positions

Southbank Sinfonia (2019). Sydney Symphony Fellow (2018). Junge Deutsche Oper (2015 to 2016).

Solo

Recitals at Festival Dino Ciani (Cortina) and the Adelaide Cello Festival. Masterclass at the Riverina Conservatorium of Music, Wagga Wagga (2026).

Recording

2024

BEING: solo cello works by five living Australian composers (Pham, Dean, Cheetham Fraillon, Lim and Vine). Move Records, with support from Creative Australia.

FABLE ARTS

2020 to 2026

Co-founder and director. Co-directed with Victoria Pham from 2020 to 2023, then sole director. More than 20 projects across music, visual art, writing and science, including The Parts We Give and Navigating Distance and Closeness.

Awards and press

2024

Sydney Arts Guide review of Woollahra Philharmonic Orchestra, "Ineffable"

2023

EAMA / Cynthia Lilley Fellowship, for conducting at the EAMA institute, Paris

2022

Arts Council England, Develop Your Creative Practice grant

2020

The Arts Desk, "A masked elegy: portraits of string players at Fidelio Orchestra Café"

Education

2025

Certificate in Advanced Conducting, Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana

2015

Master of Music (cello), Musikhochschule Stuttgart

2011

Bachelor of Music (cello), Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Languages

English (native), German (C1), French (B2+)