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Daniel Shao | Artist

Daniel Shao is a flautist who recently graduated from the Royal Academy, London, with Distinction and DipRAM for Outstanding Final Recital. He was generously supported by a Hattori Senior Award and the Countess of Munster Trust, who recently placed Daniel on their Recital Scheme. After attending the Purcell School, he read Music at St Catherine's College, Oxford, gaining first class honours. Daniel is a keen orchestral musician, having been a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, and having performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra across the world and working with renowned conductors. He has won 1st Prizes at the British Flute Society Young Artist and School Performer competitions, Oxford Philharmonic Concerto Competition, and the Sussex Prize of the Royal Overseas League, and twice toured China as concerto soloist. Daniel is passionate about contemporary music and has premiered works by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Judith Weir, and is currently working on a new piece with Mark Simpson.