MEET THE MUSICIANS

SECOND CONCERTMASTER DANIEL KHALIKOV

Violinist Daniel Khalikov continues to command the international stages as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster. A review from the Classical Source following the final round of the 2004 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, stated that “with a gifted command of the violin, and an innate Slavic intensity, Mr. Khalikov has established himself as a very special player, one who gets to the core of the music and projects it without affectation.”

Born into a musical family in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Daniel began his studies at the Upensky School of Music at the age of six. He has since performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Turkey, and his native Uzbekistan. As a soloist, he has given recitals around the world in venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He has appeared with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the National Arts Center Orchestra of Ottawa, the Brighton Philharmonic, the Uzbekistan National Symphony Orchestra, Turkey’s BASSO Orchestra, the Reno Philharmonic, and he recently made his Aber Diamond Debut as part of the CBC Radio Canada Series. In 2004, Mr. Khalikov received Second Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. The jury also awarded him the Composer’s Prize for the best performance of a new composition by Robert Keeley, a work commissioned for the competition. Other accolades include First Prize at the Strad Violin Competition in Boca Raton as well as First Prize at the Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition. In 2007, Mr. Khalikov was selected to represent Manhattan School of Music for their 90th Anniversary in an outdoor performance at New York City’s Time Square which was projected live on the famous Panasonic AstroVision screen.

As a chamber musician, Daniel Khalikov has performed alongside such artists as Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, David Geber, Ralph Kirshbaum, Eric Friedman, as well as at festivals around the world including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Verbier Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Perlman Music Program. In the summer of 2007, he was chosen to lead the orchestra of the International Orchestral Institute at Attergau, a festival orchestra under the patronage of the Vienna Philharmonic. As Concertmaster under the baton of Maestro Christoph Eschenbach, Mr. Khalikov led the orchestra in a culminating performance at Austria’s prized Salzburg Festival.

He is Concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of New York, a new ensemble of the city’s finest young professionals, and has recently been invited to join the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

Mr. Khalikov recently completed graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music, where he earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees, studying with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec. He previously attended the Curtis Institute of Music and the Toulouse National Conservatoire and has studied with Raphael Druian, Burkhard Godhoff and Nathan Mendelssohn.

Mr. Khalikov currently is a member of the 1st violin section of prestigious Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Lincoln Center. Daniel plays on a violin by Robert Meadow, made in New York in 1993, generously on loan to him by Mr. Meadow.