Violist Daniel Orsen will be joining the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in the 2022-2023 season. He will begin his tenure with the SPCO performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in September.

During his six years in Boston, Daniel performed with A Far Cry, the BSO, Fermata Chamber Soloists, and the Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, and ran Jamaica Plain Chamber Music from 2019-2022. Additionally, he was Guest Solo Violist with the Arctic Philharmonic in Norway in the 2018-2019 season.

First and foremost a chamber musician, Daniel’s festival credits include Krzyzowa, Ravinia, Verbier, Prussia Cove and the Perlman Music Program, and he has performed chamber music alongside Itzhak Perlman, Kim Kashkashian, Eckart Runge, and the Jasper String Quartet.

As soloist, he has performed the Stamitz Viola Concerto with Fermata Chamber Soloists, Vaugh William’s Christmas Suite with Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra, and Thea Musgrave’s Lamenting Ariadne with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble.

Daniel is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. He was taught and mentored by members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Credo, and the Perlman Music Program before his studies at the Oberlin Conservatory with Peter Slowik and the New England Conservatory with Kim Kashkashian. He plays on a 2013 Philip Injeian viola and a 2014 Benoit Rolland bow, both specially made for him.

Daniel practices the violistic hobby of creating silly arrangements and transcriptions for the instrument, the silliest and most notable being the Fledermaus Fantasy for viola and piano and a five-viola version of Weber’s Andante et Rondo Ungarese. When the case is closed, Daniel enjoys cycling, cross-country skiing, and occasionally dabbles with composing.