Daniel Ochoa

Daniel Ochoa

Daniel Ochoa (born August 17, 1979) is a German baritone.

Biography

Daniel Ochoa was born in 1979 and studied with Anthony Baldwin, Hans-Joachim Beyer and Thomas Quasthoff. Between 2002 and 2004, he was a regular member of the master classes of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and attended master classes held by Horst Günter and Matthias Goerne. In 2003 Ochoa received the 1st prize at the Albert Lortzing Competition in Leipzig, and the following year was awarded a Richard Wagner Award scholarship.

As an opera singer he has taken part in many productions throughout Germany in roles including the title roles in Rossini's Il barbiere di siviglia, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Joseph Haydn's Lo Speziale.

Ochoa has also performed as a soloist at the Berliner Philharmonie, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Dresdner Frauenkirche, and at festivals such as Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Festival of Flanders, and the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Thomanerchor, the Northern German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic.

In December 2009 he made his Asia debut performing in Osaka and Tokyo.

Sources

• Coyne, Linda Pound, "Pipings", The American Organist, January 2008
• Rohland, Marion, "Sichtbare und hörbare Spielfreude", Mitteldeutsche Zeitung 1 January 2010 (accessed 19 January 2010 in German)

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