Horn
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Born on 17 December 1994 in Oliveira do Bairro (Aveiro), Daniel da Rocha Canas began his musical studies at the Banda Filarmónica da Mamarrosa, and later went on to the Escola d’Artes da Bairrada, where he completed his 5th degree at the conservatory, with Ricardo Matosinhos and Nuno Lima as his teachers. Afterwards, he entered the Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho, in the class of teachers J. Bernardo Silva, Dário Ribeiro, Nuno Costa and Fiammetta Facchini. In 2010 he won 1st place in the Iberian competition ‘Terras de la Salette’, in the Youth Category. Throughout his training, he took part in masterclasses led by Hermann Baumann, Ab Koster, Nury Guarnaschelli, Hélder Vales, Sören Hermansson, Abel Pereira, Jonathan Luxton, David Johnson, Jeffrey Nelsen, Arkady Shilkloper and Froydis Ree Wekre, among others.
He has worked with various conductors, including Yan Van der Roost, Alex Schillings, Lorenzo Della Fonte, José Rafael Pascoal Vilaplana, Pedro Neves, Sérgio Alapont, Martin Lutz, Luís Carvalho, António Saiote, Christoph König, Ernest Shell, Olari Elts, John Storgårds, Osvaldo Ferreira, Baldur Brönnimann, Pedro Amaral, Jonas Alber, Marco Parissoto, Donato Cabrera, Enrique Bátiz, Case Scaglione, Valentín Uryupin, Jesús Medina and Sascha Goetzel, among others. In chamber music, he is a founding member of the Oporto Horn Quartet, winner of the first edition of the ‘Trompas Lusas’ competition, and the Clas5ic Wind Quintet, with whom he took part in the Euroclassical programme and the Harmos Festival, performing at prestigious venues in the north of the country, such as the Casa da Música and the Helena Sá e Costa Theatre. He has collaborated with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, the Orquestra Clássica de Espinho, the Orquestra Clássica do Centro, the Orquestra Sinfónica da ESMAE, the Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, the Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa and the Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Berlin. He held the position of CoPrincipal of the Jalisco-Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2018/19 season, having performed several concerts throughout America and Europe.
He is currently Soloist A and Leader of the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa.
He has taken part in several tours, having the privilege of playing in halls such as the Philharmonie Essen, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Gasteig Munich, the Konzerthaus Vienna, the San Francisco Symphony, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Auditorio Nacional de Música-Madrid and the Berliner Philharmonie. He has recorded for the stations RTP, RDP, Antena2, RTVE, C7 Jalisco and PSB America, alongside big names from the international music scene, including Plácido Domingo, Pacho Flores, Ester Yoo and Carlos Prieto, or, on a more erudite national level, the Azeitonas, Rita Redshoes and João Gil.
As a natural horn player, he was a founding member of the baroque orchestra Musicum Portucalense, under the direction of Professor Hugues Kesteman. He also took part in the official reopening of the Rivoli Theatre, performing with the National Ballet Company, conducted by Massimo Mazeo.
He graduated from ESMAE (Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo – Porto) in the class of professors Bohdan Sebestik, Hugo Carneiro, Ricardo Matosinhos, Hélder Vales, Nuno Vaz and Abel Pereira.
He is currently in the final year of his master’s programme in Performance at ESMAE.