Artists

Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1965, Daniel Sepec received his first violin lessons from his father, before studying with Dieter Vorholz at Frankfurt and Gerhard Schulz in Vienna. Since 1993, Daniel Sepec has been leader of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. In his internationally acclaimed recording of Beethoven sonatas with the pianist Andreas Staier, Daniel Sepec played the Bonn-born composer’s rediscovered violin. Together with Antje Weithaas, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras, Daniel Sepec founded the Arcanto Quartet in 2004, performing in Europe’s leading music venues with this formation until 2016. His recording of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s Rosenkranz sonatas, performed alongside Hille Perl, Lee Santana and Michael Behringer, was acclaimed as best recording of the year by the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik in 2011. Between 2010 and 2014, Daniel Sepec held a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik at Basel; since 2014, he has been teaching at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. He uses a violin by Lorenzo Storioni, 1780 and a string bow made by John Dodd around 1800.