Being Daniel Pini

• Victoria Pham (b. 1996): Red Earth, White Clay:
• 1 Pham: Red Earth, White Clay 07:57
• Brett Dean (b. 1961): Eleven Oblique Strategies:
• 2 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies I. Listen to the Quiet Voice 02:10
• 3 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies II. A Line Has Two Sides 00:44
• 4 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies III. Don’t Stress One Thing More Than Any Other 00:38
• 5 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies IV. Look at a Small Object, Look at It’s Centre 00:41
• 6 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies V. What Are the Sections Sections Of? 01:28
• 7 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies VI. Don’t Be Frightened to Show Your Talents 02:03
• 8 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies VII. Disciplined Self-indulgence 00:49
• 9 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies VIII. Bridges – Build – Burn 01:09
• 10 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies IX. Ghost Echoes 02:14
• 11 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies X. Disconnect from Desire 01:50
• 12 Dean: Eleven Oblique Strategies XI. In a Very Large Room Very Quietly 00:37
• Deborah Cheetham Fraillon (b. 1964): Permit Me:
• 13 Fraillon: Permit Me 03:09
• Liza Lim (b. 1966): Invisibility:
• 14 Lim: Invisibility 10:53
• Carl Vine (b. 1954): Inner World:
• 15 Vine: Inner World 12:31
• Total Runtime 48:53

Info for Being

Daniel Pini, acclaimed Australian cellist and conductor, presents this exploration of contemporary Australian classical music for solo cello. The album features works from five of Australia’s most distinguished living composers—Victoria Pham, Brett Dean, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Liza Lim, and Carl Vine—showcasing Australia’s modern musical landscape.

Daniel Pini describes the album: "BEING came out of a love of contemporary Australian classical music and the desire to share the music of my home country with people the world over. It is made of five works from living Australian composers for solo cello. Each piece builds its own world of sound, and despite all coming from Australian composers and composed within the past 30 years, each is distinct and speaks to the diverse voices in Australian composition.

"Through sharing this album, my hope is that more people can come to know and love Australian music. My thanks go to the composers Victoria Pham, Brett Dean, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Liza Lim, and Carl Vine, to Move records, for helping me to record this project, to Genevieve Fry for her support in creating the art for this album, to Creative Australia for supporting BEING, and for all the wonderful people who supported me during this process."

Daniel Pini, cello

Daniel Pini
Nurtured as a conductor and cellist in Australia and throughout Europe, Daniel has performed at many of the major opera houses and concert halls including the Elbphilharmonie, Berliner Philharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, the Warsaw Filharmonia, Royal Festival Hall, and Sydney Opera House. In 2018 he was awarded a Fellowship with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, in 2019 he secured a position with Southbank Sinfonia Orchestra, and he has been assistant conductor to David Curtis from 2020. In 2022, Daniel was the recipient of a DYCP grant from the Arts Council of England for conducting and the EAMA/Cynthia Lilley Fellowship. In 2023 Daniel moved to Paris, where he has been mentored by Alexander Briger. Daniel has conducted in Australia, the UK, Paris, and Germany with symphony and chamber orchestras. His repertoire ranges widely from operas to chamber and orchestral works and he particularly enjoys curating concerts with works from Australian composers and contemporary music. As a cellist, Daniel has worked extensively. Some orchestras he has performed with include Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Junge Deutsche Oper, Philharmonia Orchestra, and Southbank Sinfonia Orchestra. As a soloist and chamber musician, Daniel has performed internationally, appearing in festivals, such as Adelaide Cello Festival, Festival Dino Ciani, and Anghiari Festival. His repertoire spans genres from renaissance to today, specialising in romantic and contemporary Western Art Music. Born in Sydney, Australia to musical parents, Daniel studied cello at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In 2012, he moved to Germany where he continued his studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Dastellende Kunst, Stuttgart. His awards and scholarships include the Corinna D'Hage-Mayer scholarship for his studies in Australia, a DYCP grant for Conducting from the Arts Council of England and an EAMA/Cynthia Lilley Fellowship from the European American Musicians Association. He is currently co-director of the arts company FABLE ARTS.

Booklet for Being