Dan

Dan Shilladay (viola)

Dan read music at the University of Birmingham before completing a masters degree in contemporary music studies at the University of York. During a further year of study at the Royal College of Music with Susie Mészáros and Annette Isserlis, he was selected for the Jerwood/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Scheme for Young Players, and was also invited by Martyn Brabbins to perform with the Cheltenham Festival Academy.

Dan is now a London-based freelance musician and performs with, among others, the OAE, the English Chamber Orchestra and the English Baroque Soloists. A keen chamber musician, he is a founder member of the Baldaccio Quartet and the Berkeley Ensemble, and maintains a busy schedule of concerts in London and beyond with these and other ensembles.

As a member of the 2008 Southbank Sinfonia, he participated in critically acclaimed productions of Tom Adès’ Powder Her Face at the Royal Opera House and Tom Stoppard and André Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre. Alongside period instrument performance, he is especially interested in contemporary music, and has played in the York and Cheltenham festivals.