Paul Daniel
Paul Daniel commenced his first year of a three year contract as Principal Conductor and Artistic Adviser of WASO in 2009.
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 the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (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, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Sydney Symphony. His many recordings include the hugely successful CD of Elgar’s Third Symphony on Naxos.
Recent and future operatic plans include Billy Budd in Frankfurt, Lucia di Lammermoor and Lucrezia Borgia for English National Opera, The Makropoulos Case and King Roger in Madrid, Death in Venice and Macbeth in Brussels, Peter Grimes in Dresden, and Cosi fan tutte in Munich. Future orchestral engagements include the BBC Proms in 2010, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Essen Philhamromic and the Real Filharmonica di Galicia.
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 2010 WASO Performances
Teddy Tahu Rhodes Sings
12 & 13 March
Perth Concert Hall
Lady Macbeth
19 & 20 March
Perth Concert Hall
Beethoven's Emperor
25 March
Perth Concert Hall
Beethoven's Emperor
26 & 27 March
Perth Concert Hall
Mozart & Elgar
16 & 17 July
Perth Concert Hall
Resurrection Symphony
23 & 24 July
Perth Concert Hall
Paul Daniel Conducts Sibelius
18 November
Perth Concert Hall
Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays Grieg
19 & 20 November
Perth Concert Hall
Beethoven's Ninth
25, 26 & 27 November
Perth Concert Hall
Ravel's Bolero
2, 3 & 4 December
Perth Concert Hall
Paul Daniel appears courtesy of Wesfarmers Arts.