Biography.

Daniel Peter Silcock is a Scottish pianist currently based in London, particularly distinguished as a song accompanist. Recent seasons have seen Daniel perform at the world’s top music centres, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, and at Wigmore Hall in London.

Daniel is a Samling Artist, and a young artist with Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio 2024, curated by Reneé Fleming. Daniel was also an Art of Song fellow at Toronto Summer Music.

Together with duo-partner Charles Cunliffe, Daniel was the Schubert Insitute UK prize winner as a Leeds Lieder Young Artist in 2023. Other recent accompanist prizes include at the inaugural Eastbourne Singing Competition, the International Lied Competition in Görlitz, Germany, and at the Lewis Memorial Prize Competition, hosted by the Musica Britannica Trust. He has also recently had success in the Wigmore Hall / Bollinger International Song Prize, and the Internationale Hugo Wolf Akademie competition.

Daniel’s recent projects have included recording Mahler Rückert-Lieder with Catherine Wyn-Rogers, recitals with British Youth Opera, and arranging Elgar’s Sea Pictures for piano chamber ensemble ahead of performances at the Royal Academy of Music.

Daniel has also recently given performances at Music at Paxton, the Petworth Festival, and the Zeist International Lied Festival in the Netherlands. Daniel accompanied the first recital given by the prestigious Academy Song Circle at the Institut Français UK in Chelsea, as well as giving concerts at the Italian Cultural Forum and the Salvation Army’s Regent Hall.

Before coming to London, Daniel won prizes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for interpretations of French repertoire and made his concerto debut at the age of 15 with the RCS Symphony Orchestra, performing Felix Mendelssohn’s first piano concerto under the baton of David Danzmayr.

This year, Daniel is continuing on the Song Circle and Academy Voices fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Joseph Middleton and won major prizes for song accompaniment - including the Brenda Webb Accompanists’ Award, the Marjorie Thomas Art of Song Prize, and the Major Van Someren-Godfrey Prize. Daniel was also awarded an additional Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music for an outstanding final recital.