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The Swedish pianist, Daniel Propper, was born in Stockholm but is descended from a well known Viennese musical family. His father was born in Austria. From a young age he studied with Gunnar Hallhagen, first privately, then at the the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and there also with Laszlo Simon. After a year at the famous Juilliard School in New York he received, in 1993, a soloist diploma from the Royal College of Music. His teachers have included the great pedagogue Gunnar Hallhagen, as well as Jacques Rouvier, Bruno Rigutto and Gerard Fremy; he was also coached and greatly encouraged by the legendary Tatiana Nikolayeva in 1990. He has won many prizes, most notably, in 1990, the most substantial grant ever allocated by the Swedish Royal Academy of Music. In 1994 he settled in France, where he studied with Bernard Ringeissen, and, 1996-1998, at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique in Paris, with Jaques Rouvier, Bruno Rigutto and Gérard Frémy.
Daniel Propper has lived in France for since 1994 has persued an international career, having performed in China, in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, France, Austria and London (Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) etc, with Paris as a base. and developed an impressive career. Having performed in Europe, America and Asia for many years, his performances in 2005 brought him to The Forbidden City in Beijing, as well as to UK, Sweden and to many festivals all around in France.
Daniel Propper has performed chamber music with violinists Alexandre Brussilovsky and Anton Martynov, cellists Mark Drobinsky and Emanuelle Bertrand and the pianist Noel Lee, and in a trio formation, The Triple Trio, with violinist François Pineau Benois and cellist Guillaume Martigné He also collaborates with singers, Philippe Cantor, Mariam Sarkissian, Fanny Crouet, and others. He also collaborates with contemporary composers, as the French composer Yvon Bourrel, the Brasilian composer Antonio Santana and others.
Besides the standard classical repertoire, chiefly music of the 19th century, Daniel Propper is an advocate of Nordic music, especially Edvard Grieg, both in concerts and on disc. But he has also recorded themes, like "Feux et Tonnerres – Hommage pianistique à Berlioz" and "Echos de batailles", featuring music by composers today more or less, or completely, forgotten: Moke, Hiller, Döhler, Heller, Le Mière etc. His recordings have won great praise, most particularly that of J.S. Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations (BWV 988). In addition, he has recorded a CD intitled "19 Short Pieces", a CD with great piano master pieces by Grieg and others devoted to the music of Frédéric Chopin, Francis Poulenc, Mussorgsky etc. He also features in two films playing the Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) and Lyric Pieces by Grieg.
Daniel Propper lived in Dourdan, a medieval town, 30 kilometers from Paris. He currently lives in Maisons-Laffitte, a commune in the Yvelines department in the northern Île-de-France region of France. |
