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 was noted as an ‘highly engaging musical partner’ (Seen and Heard International) as 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. Daniel is also greatly looking forward to his time on the Britten-Pears Young Artist programme in Summer 2025.

Recent competition successes include 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. Together with duo-partner Charles Cunliffe, Daniel was the Schubert Insitute UK prize winner as a Leeds Lieder Young Artist in 2023. He has also recently had success in the Wigmore Hall / Bollinger International Song Prize, and the Internationale Hugo Wolf Akademie competition.

Daniel is a passionate recitalist and programmer. Recent programmes have been praised for ‘rapt and glowing performances’ (The Herald - Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs ). Daniel’s projects in 2025 include founding SongTide, a new festival for song and chamber music on the North-East coast of Scotland.

Upcoming diary highlights include accompanying in the Moniuszko Vocal Competition (National Theatre, Warsaw), and a tour of French song in India (including the Mumbai Opera House). Daniel has also recently given performances at the London Coliseum, and Edinburgh’s Usher Hall.

Daniel has recently played in festivals including 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, and curating a new ordering of Schubert’s Schwanengesang for Academy recitals given alongside the Glenn Gould School in Toronto.

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.