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DANIEL MORAN  Piano

Two times laureate of the International William Kapell Piano Competition in Washington D.C., Second Grand Prize of the 1995 CBC Young Performer’s Competition in Ottawa, and First Prize of the 1993 National Festival of Music CIBC  in Victoria (Canada), Daniel Moran's rapidly expanding list of awards have placed him as one of the most promising talents of his generation. Heralded for his poetic lyricism matched with intensity of expression, the young Canadian pianist has already enjoyed an international career as soloist and chamber music player.

Daniel Moran has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, the University of Calgary Orchestra and the Calgary Civic Symphony and collaborated with conductors such as Kazuyoshoi Akiyama, Rosemary Thomson, Richard Niezen, Thomas Rolston and  Edmund Agopian.

Daniel Moran has given solo and chamber music performances in England, Germany, Austria and Belgium. He has also given solo recital tours of Japan and Spain and was invited as distinguished soloist at the Dallas Meyerson Symphony Center, the Calgary Jack Singer Concert Hall, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Lethbridge, Medicine Hat College, the Toronto Aviva Foundation, the Atlanta Georgia State University and the University of Calgary in the “Alberta in Concert Series 2004”.  Highlights of last season also included performances in Northern England and the Texas Conservatory for Young Artist Concert Series.

Numerous regional and national radio stations have broadcast his performances such as CBC Radio 2, Classical FM Toronto, CJRT Toronto and WCLV Cleveland. Recently, Daniel Moran participated with piano-duo member  Maneli Pirzadeh in a broadcast recording for CBC radio which included a newly commissioned work by Canadian composer Michel Frigon as well as Bartok’s Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion.

Additionally, Daniel Moran was featured as the subject of an extended article in the highly respected “Washington Post” Sunday magazine.

With the support from the Canada Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Daniel Moran studied with prestigious teachers such as Marilyn Engle, Sergei Babayan and Joaquin Achucarro.

Native of Calgary, Daniel Moran has completed an Artist Diploma at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto with André Laplante and is currently enrolled in a Doctorate degree program at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Marc Durand.