Daniel Sepec

Daniel Sepec, born 1965 in Frankfurt/Main studied with Dieter Vorholz at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt am Main and later with Gerhard Schulz at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna. He also took part in master classes with Sandor Vegh and the Alban Berg Quartet. At the fifth international Mozart competition in Salzburg in 1991 he received the prize awarded by the Mozart Society of Wiesbaden.

Since 1993 Daniel Sepec has been the leader of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, performing concertos with conductors such as Daniel Harding, Thomas Hengelbrock, Frans Brüggen and Trevor Pinnock, and also as a director himself, for example in a recording of Bach's violin concertos. He has also been invited several times as guest leader with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Camerata Salzburg and Ensemble Oriol in Berlin.

Attracted by the variety of expression in baroque music, Daniel Sepec increasingly concentrates on the baroque violin. He played regularly as the leader of the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble under its director Thomas Hengelbrock, which performs on period instruments. Recently he has directed a number of his own projects, for example Vivaldi's Four Seasons alongside the first performances of three Intermezzi by Johannes Harneit.

As leader and soloist Daniel Sepec played Heinrich Biber's Rosary Sonatas in the Vienna Konzerthaus and at the Innsbrucker Festwochen für alte Musik. He performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Wiener Akademie and Martin Haselböck, as well as the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Academy of Ancient Music and Christopher Hogwood in London.

Since 1995 Daniel Sepec has been appearing regularly as a chamber musician at the Schubert Festival in Hohenems, and he is a long-standing guest at the St. Gallen Festival/Styria. Chamber music partners have included Alexej Lubimov, Tabea Zimmermann, Jaap ter Linden, Klaus Mertens, Andreas Staier and Isabelle Faust. 2003-2007 he played in a piano trio formation together with Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Andreas Staier. 2004 he founded the Arcanto Quartet together with Antje Weithaas, Tabea Zimmermann und Jean-Guihen Queyras.

His most recent CD recordings are violin sonatas by Beethoven together with Andreas Staier, piano trios by Beethoven together with Andreas Staier and Jean-Guihen Queyras, and string quartets by Béla Bartók together with the Arcanto Quartet (Harmonia Mundi France).