Australian conductor Daniel Smith rapidly gained international acclaim after winning 1st prize, the Golden Baton and the Orchestra’s Choice Prize at the Fitelberg International Conducting Competition (2012), as well as 2nd prize at the prestigious Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition (2012). His third success was 1st prize at the Luigi Mancinelli International Opera Conducting Competition (2012)along with the Orchestra’s Choice Prize at the Lutosławski International Conducting Competition (2011).
An invitation as the first Australian at the Mariinsky Theatre soon followed, as well as important debuts with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Tokyo Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Danish DR SymfoniOrkestret, the Göteborgs Symfoniker, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Odense Symfoniorkester, the St Petersburg Symphony and the RTE National Symphony in Dublin among others.
Daniel Smith has conducted at festivals including the Mozarteum Festspiele, the Järvi Summer Festival, the Estate musicale Chigiana, the Aspen Music Festival, the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, the MiTo festival and the Proms in Kraków.
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