DANIEL, PAUL Paul Daniel was born in the English Midland city of Birmingham, sang in the choir of Coventry Cathedral and read Music at King's College, Cambridge, before studying conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, with Franco Ferrara in Italy and with Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Edward Downes. He was a member of English National Opera between 1982 and 1987 and Music Director of Opera Factory from then until 1990, when he was appointed Music Director of Opera North and Principal Conductor of the English Northern Philharmonia. In 1997 he returned to English National Opera as Music Director. His career has brought engagements in Europe, the United States of America and Australia and he has appeared with all the major British orchestras, with a continuing commitment to contemporary music both in the concert-hall and in the opera-house. With Opera North he has been able to direct enterprising opera seasons that have seen the staging of new works and the first performances in England of operas that have never been part of English repertoire. For Naxos he directs a series devoted to the orchestral works of William Walton.
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