DANIEL ORSEN
Founder/Artistic Director/ Violist
Daniel Orsen’s debut recording of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata with pianist Pierre-Nicolas Colombat is now available. Daniel is the founder and director of Jamaica Plain Chamber Music and performs regularly at international chamber festivals such as Krzyzowa Music, Ravinia, and Verbier. As soloist, he has recently performed with the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra and Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. As an orchestral leader, he has served as guest solo violist with the Arctic Philharmonic and appears frequently with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra.
Daniel’s primary musical enthusiasm is chamber music. He has performed with luminaries such as Itzhak Perlman, Kim Kashkashian, Eckart Runge, and the Jasper String Quartet. In addition to directing Jamaica Plain Chamber Music, a concert series which brings together the local musical talent for concerts in Boston’s Jamaica Plain community, he collaborates frequently with violinist Brandon Garbot as the Orsen-Garbot duo. While studying at New England Conservatory his flute-harp-viola trio, OWL riot, was selected for the Honors Ensemble program. Full festival credits are the Verbier Festival Academy, Kryzyzowa Music, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, IMS Prussia Cove, and the Perlman Music Program.
Daniel is also a member of Fermata, an artist roster in Boston committed to presenting chamber music in non-traditional ways and spaces, and Artistic Director of Fermata’s Original Chaplin — a project to commission and perform contemporary sinfonietta scores for Charlie Chaplin short films.
In violistic tradition, Daniel has created a few silly arrangements and transcriptions for the instrument, the silliest and most notable being the Fledermaus Fantasy for viola and piano and a five-viola version of Weber’s Andante et Rondo Ungarese.
Daniel is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. He was taught and mentored by members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Credo, and the Perlman Music Program before his studies at the Oberlin Conservatory with Peter Slowik and the New England Conservatory with Kim Kashkashian. He has now begun his own teaching career at the historic Community Music Center of Boston. He graduated from Oberlin with membership in Phi Kappa Lambda, and at NEC had the rare distinction of being a two-time recipient of a Presidential Scholarship. He plays on a 2013 Philip Injeian viola and a 2014 Benoit Rolland bow, both specially made for him.
When the case is closed, Daniel enjoys carpentry, cross-country skiing, and most anything that gets him outside. He is a Steelers fan.
Daniel’s primary musical enthusiasm is chamber music. He has performed with luminaries such as Itzhak Perlman, Kim Kashkashian, Eckart Runge, and the Jasper String Quartet. In addition to directing Jamaica Plain Chamber Music, a concert series which brings together the local musical talent for concerts in Boston’s Jamaica Plain community, he collaborates frequently with violinist Brandon Garbot as the Orsen-Garbot duo. While studying at New England Conservatory his flute-harp-viola trio, OWL riot, was selected for the Honors Ensemble program. Full festival credits are the Verbier Festival Academy, Kryzyzowa Music, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, IMS Prussia Cove, and the Perlman Music Program.
Daniel is also a member of Fermata, an artist roster in Boston committed to presenting chamber music in non-traditional ways and spaces, and Artistic Director of Fermata’s Original Chaplin — a project to commission and perform contemporary sinfonietta scores for Charlie Chaplin short films.
In violistic tradition, Daniel has created a few silly arrangements and transcriptions for the instrument, the silliest and most notable being the Fledermaus Fantasy for viola and piano and a five-viola version of Weber’s Andante et Rondo Ungarese.
Daniel is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. He was taught and mentored by members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Credo, and the Perlman Music Program before his studies at the Oberlin Conservatory with Peter Slowik and the New England Conservatory with Kim Kashkashian. He has now begun his own teaching career at the historic Community Music Center of Boston. He graduated from Oberlin with membership in Phi Kappa Lambda, and at NEC had the rare distinction of being a two-time recipient of a Presidential Scholarship. He plays on a 2013 Philip Injeian viola and a 2014 Benoit Rolland bow, both specially made for him.
When the case is closed, Daniel enjoys carpentry, cross-country skiing, and most anything that gets him outside. He is a Steelers fan.