Principal Conductor

Paul Daniel

Paul Daniel became Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Perth in 2009. In 2013 he will take up the positions of Music Director of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia. He has appeared as a guest conductor with major orchestras and opera companies throughout the world as well as holding several permanent positions. From 1997 to 2005 he was Music Director of English National Opera; from 1990 to 1997 he was Music Director of Opera North and Principal Conductor of the English Northern Philharmonia; and from 1987 to 1990 he was Music Director of Opera Factory. Operatic guest engagements have included the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Paul Daniel’s orchestral engagements have included performances with the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, the OAE (with whom he recorded Elijah for Decca), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestre de Paris, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, Orchestre National Bordeaux Acquitaine, Tampere Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Recent and future operatic plans include Lucrezia Borgia and The Marriage of Figaro for English National Opera, Gloriana for Covent Garden, a new commission by Judith Weir for the Bregenz Festival and Covent Garden, Lulu for La Monnaie in Brussels, a double bill of L’Enfant et les Sortilleges and Der Zwerg for Opéra National de Paris, Les Troyens for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, A Village Romeo and Juliet for Oper Frankfurt, The Turn of the Screw for Zurich Opera and a concert performance of Pelléas et Melisande at the Bolshoi. Orchestral engagements, apart from his concerts with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National Bordeaux Acquitaine and Real Filharmonia de Galicia, include concerts with BBC Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Hamburg Symphony, Munich Rundfunkorchester, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Australian National Academy of Music, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and at the Bregenz Festival.

His many recordings include the hugely successful CD of Elgar’s Third Symphony on Naxos.

In February 1998 Paul Daniel received an Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in opera, and was awarded the CBE in the 2000 New Year’s Honours list.

Paul Daniel's 2013 WASO Performances

Tchaikovsky's Pathetique 
Morning Symphony
14 March
Perth Concert Hall

Tchaikovsky's Pathetique
15 & 16 March
Perth Concert Hall

Orla Boylan in Recital
Paul Daniel, piano
18 March
Government House Ballroom

Piers Lane Plays Rachmaninov
22 & 23 March
Perth Concert Hall

Mozart & Mendelssohn
Morning Symphony
8 August
Perth Concert Hall

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
9 & 10 August
Perth Concert Hall

Latitude: Perspectives
14 August
Astor Theatre

Latitude: Frontiers
17 August
Astor Theatre

Mozart & Mahler
23 & 24 August
Perth Concert Hall

Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays Gershwin
29 & 30 November
Perth Concert Hall

Verdi's Requiem
Paul Daniel's Farewell Gala
6 & 7 December
Perth Concert Hall

Symphony in the City
14 December
Langley Park, Perth

Paul Daniel appears courtesy of Wesfarmers Arts.