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New Reviews page added! Take a look at past and present newspaper reviews from some of Daniel’s concerts! Click the NEW “reviews” link in the menu above!

Travel Tips page updated!

Worried about overweight luggage? I always carry luggage scales with me! Make sure you get a battery operated one as they memorise the weight so that you can check it after you put the bag down! Take a look at Magellan’s (added January 2012).

Travel Tips page updated!

I use TripIt Pro to easily access all my flight and hotel bookings from one place! It also sends me an SMS if my flight is delayed or cancelled and notifies me of alternate flights. A really great tool!

Continuing a beautiful relationship with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Daniel will embark on a tour with the orchestra, performing works by the Strauss family in France in January 2012. More information next month!

Works will include a selection from the following:
LUMBYE Champagner-Galopp
STRAUSS, J. Jr. Russischer Marsch
STRAUSS, J, Jr. Perpetuum mobile; Musikalischer Scherz, op.257 (Musical Joke)
STRAUSS, J, Jr. Fledermaus: Overture
STRAUSS, J, Jr. Furst Bariatinsky-Marsch, Op. 212
STRAUSS, J, Jr. Niko-Polka, Op. 228
STRAUSS, J, Jr. Wein, Weib, und Gesang, op.333 (Wine, Women and Song)
STRAUSS, J, Jr. Vergnügungszug, op.281 (Pleasure Train Polka)
STRAUSS, J, Jr. Russische Marsch Fantasie, Op. 353
STRAUSS, J. Jr. Wiener Blut, op.354 (Vienna Blood)
STRAUSS, J. Jr. Unter Donner und Blitz, op.324 (Thunder and Lightning Polka)
STRAUSS, J. Jr. Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy Baron): Einzugsmarsch (Entrance March)
STRAUSS, J, Jr. An der schonen blauen Donau, op.314 (On the beautiful blue Danube)
STRAUSS, J, Jr. Bauern-Polka

One memory I have of New Year in Sydney as a child was to wake up and watch the Vienna Philharmonic perform live on TV. This New Year Concert became a ritual for me over the years.

It is with great joy that I announce an invitation to return to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice to welcome the New Year at the Acropolis!

I look forward to being able to share the program of incredible music we are currently working on with you soon! Feel free to leave ideas in the comments field!

Wishing you all the best from Sicily,
Daniel.

It is with great pleasure and honour that we announce that Daniel won the most prestigious prize in the 5th Witold Lutosławski International Contest for Young Conductors, held in Poland once every 5 years.

After 3 elimination rounds, competing against 184 of the world’s best conductors from 43 countries, Daniel was awarded the greatest accolade of the competition, winner of the Orchestra’s Choice Prize for the Best Conductor in the 5th Witold Lutosławski International Contest for Young Conductors, which was voted for by every musician of the orchestra.

During the award ceremony, he was presented with a one-metre-high prize statue, an honorary Diploma of Music with Distinction and received immediate invitations for engagements with orchestras in Europe.

We’ve made many improvements to the Daniel Smith website!These include features such as:

• Now you can view pictures and see videos/audio of daniel’s performances in the new See & Hear section.
• See upcoming performances on any page
• See the website in Italian (more languages coming soon!!!)
• New facebook integration – post comments using your facebook account!

We hope that you enjoy the new website!

If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know in the comment section.

Whilst family members are in the eye of the storm, I thank everyone for their thoughts for Australia at this most incredible time. The anxious wait to see how your fellow Australians and family members will be tomorrow morning after the greatest cyclone (hurricane) to hit Australia in known history hits Queensland, keeps your mind in a constant state of unrest. It’s incredible to imagine the size of this force, with walls of water being reported at the height of four-storey buildings, wind gusts of around 300km/hr and the cyclone itself almost the size of the USA (see comparison picture above). Australia, we are thinking of you.