Daniel del Pino is one of the most internationally renowned Spanish pianists. His concert career has taken him all over the world, performing in the most prestigious halls in Europe (Salle Gaveau in Paris, Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, Ateneo G. Enescu in Bucharest, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Auditori in Barcelona, Auditorio de Zaragoza, Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, Palau de la Música in Valencia, Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada, Teatro Verdi in Terni), Morocco, Tunisia, the Middle East, Gabon, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Taiwan (National Concert Hall in Taipei), Japan, Australia and the United States (Carnegie Hall in New York). He has collaborated as soloist with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, the Clásica de España, the Córdoba Symphony Orchestra, the Seville Symphony Orchestra, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, the Castilla-León Symphony, the Valencia Symphony Orchestra, the Murcia Symphony Orchestra, the G. Enesco Symphony of Bucharest, the Brasov Symphony, the Transylvanian State Symphony (Romania), the Medellín Philharmonic (Colombia), the Podkarpacka Philharmonic (Rzeszow, Poland), the Meadows Symphony Orchestra, the Kenosha Symphony, the Federal Way Symphony Orchestra, the Monterey Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra, the Garland Symphony Orchestra, and the New Arlington Symphony Orchestra (United States). He has also performed with the Reina Sofía Chamber Orchestra, Soloists of the Almaty Symphony Orchestra, Solisti di Praga, and the Orchestra da Camara d’Umbria, under the direction of Max Bragado, Jesús Amigo, José Miguel Rodilla, Gloria Isabel Ramos, Alejandro Posada, Enrique García-Asensio, Carlo Rizzi, Juan Luis Pérez, Robert Carter Austin, Marco Gatti, Carlos Riazuelo, Rubén Gimeno, Alfonso Saura, among others.
He has performed for the Philharmonic Societies of Segovia, A Coruña, Zaragoza, Valencia, Vigo, Ferrol, Pontevedra and Gijón, and at the Festivals of Segovia, León, Cadaqués, Pau Casals de Vendrell, Otoño Soriano, Quincena Donostiarra, Úbeda, Ayamonte, Verbier (Switzerland), Morelia (Mexico), Bravissimo Festival (Guatemala), Cap Ferret (France), Haifa Chamber Music Society (Israel), Chamber Music International (Dallas, USA), and has been invited every year for the last fifteen years to the Newport Festival (United States). He has premiered works by composers José Zárate, Francisco Lara, Jorge Grundman, Elena Kats-Chernin, Nikolai Kapustin and Antón García Abril, among others.
Daniel del Pino was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1972. He began his musical studies in Rabat (Morocco), continuing his training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, Yale University and Southern Methodist University in Dallas (both in the United States). His teachers have been Marisa Villalba, Julián López-Gimeno, Peter Frankl and Joaquín Achúcarro. He has been a piano teacher at the “Jacinto Guerrero” Professional Music Conservatory in Toledo and is currently a professor at Musikene (Higher Music Conservatory of the Basque Country).
He has given master classes in Klagenfurt (Austria), the Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo (Norway), the Universities of Boston and Houston, Cap Ferret (France), EuroArts in Leipzig (Germany), San Esteban de Gormaz (Soria), Presjovem in Lucena, the “Edward Said National Conservatory of Music” (Palestine), as well as at the “Jordan Academy of Music” (Amman, Jordan). His concerts have been broadcast by Radio 2 Radio Nacional in Spain, RTVE, ABC Classical in Sydney, SWR 2 (Stuttgart, Germany), National Television of Taiwan, Television of Romania, Radio Televisión de Morelia (Mexico), NPR in the United States (National Public Radio), WGBH in Boston, WFMT in Chicago, and radio stations in Libreville and Dallas.
He has recorded the complete Chopin and Goyescas studies by Granados for the Verso label, the album “Live in Villa San Lorenzo” with the Italian double bassist Alberto Bocini (NBB Records), a monograph on García-Abril with the Leonor Quartet and José Luis Estellés, “No Seasons” with Ara Malikian and the Non-Profit Chamber Orchestra, an album dedicated to Kapustin with first recordings of his concerto for two pianos and percussion, with Ludmil Angelov and Neopercusión, “Looking back over Chopin” (recorded and presented at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid) with the saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist Andreas Prittwitz. With this project he has had the honour of performing at the prestigious Café Central in Madrid. More recently he recorded the album “W Sonatas” with the violinist Vicente Cueva, with music by Jorge Grundman and the album “Gypsy Inspiration” with the flutist Vicent Morelló for the Eudora Records label.
He has been the Artistic Director of the Cita con los Clásicos series since 2010, and since 2014 of the Festival organized by Sierra Musical. Since 2016 he has been a piano teacher at the advanced level and master’s level, offered by the Centro Superior de Enseñanza Musical Katarina Gurska, in Madrid.