Daniel fell in love with classical music aged just five, influenced by his musically gifted mother, who was a harpsichord player and piano teacher. On the day of this special recital, he will spend the morning providing a masterclass for music students, being renowned for encouraging young people to develop their passion for classical music.

Daniel is one of the most sought-after cellists in the world today and can be heard on all international concert stages. For many years he has been enchanting audiences as an ambassador for classical music, playing with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, as well as forming bridges between music, literature, and the visual arts.

The New York Times refers to his “intensive expressiveness” and describes him as a “fearless player with technique to burn”. He not only performs cello concertos from the Baroque to the modern era but is keen to discover unknown works for the expansion of the cello repertoire through his own arrangements and collaboration with the composers of our time.

George Alexander Albrecht, Sir André Previn and Peter Ruzicka have dedicated cello concertos to him. Creating a higher intensity of perception between music, visual arts and literature is Daniel’s artistic credo. Daniel has been involved in the ‘Rhapsody in School’ project for many years and regularly gives master classes worldwide. In a career spanning more than thirty years, Daniel has produced an impressive discography of over 30 albums for several renowned CD-Labels and won numerous international awards.

Malaysian pianist Magdalene Ho came to international attention after winning the Clara Haskil Piano Competition in 2023. Formerly a pupil of Patsy Toh at the Purcell School, she currently studies with Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music on a full scholarship.

In the 2025/26 season Magdalene Ho marks her recital debuts at the Tonhalle Zürich as well as with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Other highlights of the season include her performances at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Rheingau Festival, the Lille Piano(s) Festival and as part of SWR Kultur Internationale Pianisten series in Mainz.

Only in the 2024/25 season, Magdalene Ho performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Théâtre de la Ville Paris and the Teatro alla Scala Milan with Ensemble “Giorgio Bernasconi” under Wilson Hermanto, as well as with the Orchestre de Suisse Romande under Cornelius Meister, the SWR Symphonie orchester under Kirill Karabits and the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Payare.

Magdalene Ho was born in 2003 and started learning the piano at the age of four. In 2013, she began studying in the UK. In 2015, she received the ABRSM Sheila Mossman Prize and Silver Award. In 2018, she made her concerto debut playing Mendelssohn’s first Piano Concerto with the Oxford Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Max.

As part of a prize won at the PIANALE piano festival in Fulda, Germany, she released an album of Bach and Messiaen works in 2019. She also had a composition shortlisted by the BBC Young Composer competition in the same year. She was a finalist at the Düsseldorf Schumann Competition 2023 and was awarded the Joan Chissell Schumann Prize for Piano at the Royal College of Music a few months later.