Danny Driver (UK) ← Back to list
Driver’s passion for chamber music has generated invitations to festivals such as O/Modernt and Gothenburg Chamber Music Festival (Sweden), Australian Chamber Music Festival, Engadin Festival (Switzerland), and the Dante Festival (UK). It has found expression in long-standing musical partnerships with violinist Chloë Hanslip, baritone Christian Immler, and cellist-composer Oliver Coates. Recent projects have included a complete traversal of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano at with Chloë Hanslip at Turner Sims Concert Hall (UK), also recorded live for Rubicon Classics (2017), and lieder recitals with Christian Immler at the Salle Bourgie (Montreal), Deutschlandfunk Raderbergkonzerte (Köln), and Maison de la Radio (Paris). Driver has also played with esteemed string quartets including JACK, Parker, Carducci, and Brodsky Quartets.
Driver’s long relationship with Hyperion Records label has spawned a varied and internationally acclaimed discography of works by composers including Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Handel, York Bowen, Mili Balakirev, Robert Schumann, and Erik Chisholm. His recordings have won him awards including Limelight Magazine’s Instrumental Recording of the Year 2014 (Handel Suites), inclusion in the New York Times’ list of 2017’s Best Classical Recordings (Piano Concertos by Beach/Howell/Chaminade) and two Gramophone Award Nominations (York Bowen Piano Sonatas, and Beach/Howell/Chaminade). His most recent release of György Ligeti’s Piano Études has met with particular critical acclaim, including an International Classical Music Awards nomination for best solo instrument recording of 2021: “Driver, as fleet of finger as this formidably challenging writing demands, has a mind that searches beyond contrivance; these are transfixing performances” [The Sunday Times]. Forthcoming recordings include works by Schumann and Fauré.
Danny Driver resides in London with his family. He teaches a small class of pianists at the Royal College of Music, where he was appointed Professor of Piano & Contemporary Piano in 2016.