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Born in Valencia, Daniel Gil de Tejada finished his Piano and Choir Conducting Studies at the “Conservatorio Superior de Musica Joaquín Rodrigo” of Valencia with Professors Eduardo Adolfo Bueso and Eduardo Cifre.
After this he extended his piano studies with pianist and musicologist Luca Chiantore at the “Duetto” School of Valencia.
In 1999 he was awarded a scholarship from the “Valencian Institute of Music” and moved to London to study conducting at the “Royal College of Music“, where he got a “Postgraduate in Orchestra Conducting” and “Postgraduate in Advanced in Orchestra Conducting” with professors Neil Thomson and John Carewe. The Collage usually worked with the orchestras “RCM Sinfonietta”, “RCM Orchestra” and “RCM Synphony” in both rehearsals and concerts. He was awarded the “August Mann Prize” for conducting and the “Norman Mar Prize” twice. During this period he also worked as an interim director at the “Britten Theatre” in Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress. Furthermore, he studied composition with British composer Edwin Roxburgh.
He has attended the following master classes: Piano master class with Mario Monreal and Anna Jastrezebska; vocal accompaniment with Wolfram Rieger and Kamal Khan; conducting with José Collado, Jonas Aleksa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Roger Norrington and Janos Fürst; composition with César Cano and Alberto Zedda; and interpretation Rossiniana Academy in Pesaro.
On his return from London, he acted as guest conductor of various groups such as the “Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Valencia“, the “Orchestra and Chorus Cantollano” or the canary group “Aria“.
From 2002 to 2004 he worked as an assistant director of the Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in productions of Goyescas by E. Granados, Una voce in off .Montsalvatge, Norma by V. Bellini, Els Pirineus by F. Pedrell, Oedipe by G.Enesco, Hamlet by A. Thomas, Maria Stuarda by G.Donizetti and Peter Grimes by B.Britten, among others.
In 2004 he directed the “Chamber Choir Musicant” with members of the choir of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, performing several concerts in Barcelona, highlighting the concert that took place in the auditorium of Peñíscola together with the “Orchestra of the Academy of Great Teatre del Liceu” playing W. A. Mozart’s Requiem. Since 2003, he has been working for the “Opera de Sabadell”, where he has conducted the operas Manon by J. Massenet, Roméo et Juliette by Ch. Gounod, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte by Mozart, La Cenerentola and Il Barbiere di Siviglia by G. Rossini, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, Tosca , Turandot by G. Puccini, Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, Norma by Bellini and the zarzuela Luisa Fernanda by Moreno Torroba, Cançó d’Amor i Guerra by Martinez Valls and La Rosa del Azafrán by Guerrero. All of these together with the “Valles Symphony Orchestra“.
He was the second-prize winner at the “III Concorso Internazionale per direttore d’Opera Luigi Mancinelli” in Orvieto, the third-prize winner at the “X Concorso Internazionale per Direttore d’Orquestra A. Pedrotti” in Trento and the 1st prize at the “XV Concorso per Giovanni Direttore d’Orquestra della Unione Europea 2008” in Spoleto, which led to his directing debut in Italy with “L’elisir d’amore” by G. Donizetti at the Teatro Sperimentale di Spoleto in the 63rd Opera Season and “Il Matrimonio Segreto” by D. Cimarosa in the 64th season.
In May of 2015 he won the 1st prize in the contest “Operation of the Black Sea Opera” in Constanta, Romania and debuted the following year in that city with La Bohème de G. Puccini.
In December of 2015 debuted in the Great Teatre of the Liceo of Barcelona in substitution of the teacher Marco Armiliato, directing Lucia di Lammermoor of G. Donizetti next to the singers Juan Diego Florez and Elena Mosuc, with great success of public and critic.
In December of 2016 he directed Cavalleria Rusticana (P. Mascagni) and Pagliacci (R. Leoncavallo) in the 49th Stagione of Jesi, Italy, with the G. Rossini Orchestra.
In 2017 he has directed again in the Gran Teatre del Liceo directing the Concert of winners of the International Singing Competition Viñas and in the Real Theater of Madrid, next to the Symphonic Orchestra of Madrid.
In January 2018 he won second prize in the “First European Union Leadership Competition” in Sofia, Bulgaria. In June he debuted with the “Orquesta de Valencia” in a concert organized by La Caixa de “Grandes choros de opera”.
Recently, he won the first prize at the “Opera Nice Côte d’Azur Conducting Competition” in Nice, France.
Upcoming commitments include directing the Falstaff operas and La Bohème at the Sabadell Opera, concerts with the “Witold Lutosławski Chamber philharmonic” at Lomza (Poland) and the “Orchester Philharmonique de Nice”, together with the tenor Fabio Armiliato and the mezzo-soprano Andrea Ulbrich, “El jove barber de Sevilla” with the Orchestra of the Conservatori del Liceu and the opera “Madame Butterfly” at the Ópera de Jerez.