Acclaimed for his “dazzling virtuosity” and “inventive playing”, Spanish clarinettist Daniel Broncano is emerging as a soloist and recitalist. He is recipient of numerous awards and prizes: Making Music Award for Young Concert Artists, the Madrid Youth Orchestra Soloists´Competition, the Clarinet and Sax Society Competition, the Trinity Soloists´Competition, the Wilfred Hambleton Chamber Music Award and the Albox Chamber Music Contest (Spain) amongst others.
Ranging a vast internal repertoire of imaginative and emotional skills, Daniel´s performances as a soloist include the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto alongside Trinity Symphony Orchestra and the Weber´s 1st Clarinet Concerto with the Iuventas Orchestra. He has also recorded the Copland Clarinet Concerto for BBC3 and will appear as a soloist at the Aberystwyth Music Festival 2011 with the Orion Symphony Orchestra. As a passionate contemporary music performer he has premiered Jekyll´s Confession for solo clarinet by Jesús Aranda in the UK.
His wide recital experience has been shaped together with the German pianist Johannes Mnich. The Broncano and Mnich Duo has performed extensively in the UK, Spain and Germany. Daniel has recently performed with other chamber groups as the Erdesz Quartet, the Billroth Ensemble or the Mocanu Trio.
Daniel was born in Madrid in 1986. He studied in Madrid with Justo Sanz and in Paris with Nicolas Baldeyrou. Nowadays he is enrolled on the Masters´Course with Joan Enric Lluna and Michael Whight at Trinity Laban, thanks to a Leverhulme Mentorship Scholarship and a Spanish Performers Association Scholarship. He has appeared with Chroma Ensemble, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Sound Collective or the Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra. He has been a member of the Madrid Youth Orchestra, the Spanish National Youth Orchestra and the YMSO.