Daniel Elyar is an active performer and recording artist and has specialized in baroque performance practice in Europe and North America for nearly twenty years. Mr. Elyar has performed and recorded with ensembles in North America and Europe such as Tafelmusik (Toronto), the Utrecht Baroque Consort, Concerto d’Amsterdam, Teatro Lirico, Concerto Palatino, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the New York Collegium, Ensemble REBEL (NYC), NYSEMA, Tempesta di Mare and Clarion Players and Choir (NYC). Mr. Elyar is contractor and manager of the Philadelphia Bach Collegium which presents a monthly cantata series in Philadelphia. Mr. Elyar has taught for the past six years at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. Mr. Elyar holds a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Artist’s Diploma from the Sweelinck Conservatory (Amsterdam) and a Master of Music from the Royal Conservatory (the Hague). Some of Mr. Elyar’s teachers are Heidi Castleman, Sigiwald Kuijken, Lucy van Dael and Monica Huggett. Mr. Elyar has performed under the baton of directors as Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman & William Christie. Mr Elyar has recorded for Chandos, ELECTRA, ATMA and Hungarton labels. Mr. Elyar performed this Fall with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra at les Grandes Fetes Baroques in Versailles as principal violist.
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