| Daniel Capps - Conductor Daniel Capps graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, studying advanced Conducting with Colin Metters, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Mark Wigglesworth, Peter Eötvös, Thomas Ades and George Hurst. During his time at the Academy, Daniel was awarded the Sir Henry Wood scholarship, the Bob Harding Award, the Ernest Read Conducting Prize and, on two occasions, the Fred Southhall Memorial Prize for conducting. Since leaving the Academy, Daniel has conducted all over Europe, including in Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Holland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and throughout the United Kingdom. He has also been fortunate enough to have worked with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre national d’Ile de France, Orquestra de Cadaqués, Orchestre de Franche-Comté, Paragon Ensemble and Monteverdi Choir amongst others. In November 2005 Daniel was appointed as conductor with the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, with whom he also toured Mexico this year. He is also Musical Director of the Sirius Ensemble, performing an extensive repertoire of original compositions and taking advantage of the arrangements made from 1918-1924 for Schoenberg's Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen (Society for Private Musical Performances). In 2003 the ensemble premiered Anthony Bailey’s chamber opera The Black Monk, based on Chekhov's short story, written especially for the ensemble. He is also Musical Director of Imperial College Sinfonietta, an orchestra which he established and with whom he is currently enjoying an 11th season. Daniel has acted as assistant conductor to Sir John Eliot Gardiner since 2003, notably with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, whilst also working for the BBC in a musical capacity as a Director and Producer, for their drama about the first performance of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. Daniel again assisted Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the ORR during their residence at the Chatelet Theatre, Paris, conducting in each of the performances of Berlioz’ Les Troyens, of which the DVD recently won a Gramophone Award. More recently he has worked on La Finta Giardiniera with the English Baroque Soloists at the Royal Opera House and is currently working on the ORR’s Brahms project for 2007-8. In October this year Daniel will make his debut with the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra during their season at the Brighton Dome, whilst returning to the Royal Opera House for the majority of the season, where he will make his main stage debut in May 2008. |
