Associate ProfessorDaniel Herscovitch

DSCM (Performer)(Honours)Künstlerische Reifeprüfung (Munich)Meisterklassendiplom (Munich)

Daniel Herscovitch studied with Alexander Sverjensky at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music then, with the generous support of a German Government DAAD scholarship, under Professor Rosl Schmid in Munich. While based in Germany he performed extensively on the continent and in England and toured Australia three times. He also appeared at several international festivals including the Berlin Festival, the Zagreb Biennale and the Saarbrücken Tage der Neuen Musik.

Since returning to Australia he has been active as a concerto soloist, and in solo recitals and chamber music, and has appeared at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the New Directions Festival and the Festivals of Melbourne and Sydney. He was often a featured guest artist at the Sydney Spring Festival of New Music. He has also toured for Musica Viva and New Zealand several times. He has appeared with Synergy, Flederman, the Song Company and the Australia Ensemble and has toured with The Seymour Group. He was a soloist in the first Australian performance of the Bartók Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra and has appeared in concert with Wanda Wilkomirska, Jane Manning, Clemens Leske, Bernadette Harvey, Geoffrey Gartner, Stephanie McCallum, Darryl Poulsen, Vivian Choi and Ole Böhn.

He has toured the USA four times, most recently performing Bach’s Art of Fugue. He has visited Indonesia numerous times and his fifth European tour in 2019 took him to Singapore, the UK, Norway and Germany where he performed Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis and included a residency at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

His solo repertoire ranges from Purcell to Carter and beyond, and includes contemporary Australian, Asian, European and American works, several of which he commissioned and premiered, including works by Peter Dart and Brad Gill.His recordings of repertoire from the 17^th to the 21^st centuries have been released on Tall Poppies, Toccata Classics, CSM, Continuum, Biodiversity, Move and ABC Classics labels. His recent CD on the Toccata Classics label of music by Roger Smalley was Editor’s Choice in the 2019 Awards issue of Gramophone. Two further CDs of music by Don Banks and Peter Dart were released in the UK last year, receiving glowing reviews internationally. A CD of music by Kate Moore is scheduled for release on the Heritage Records label in the UK later this year.

He has also presented papers at conferences in Australia and Europe on ornamentation in Bach, Bach's Art of Fugue,ornamentation in Beethoven, as well as on practice methods, and he is sought after as guest lecturer on subjects ranging from baroque performance to Bartók.He is currently Associate Professor of Piano at The University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he also lectured for many years on chamber music and piano pedagogy.

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