A pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, Daniele Bonini studied piano in Udine, where he graduated with top marks. He subsequently obtained a Master’s degree in Accompaniment, again with top marks and distinction, at the Milan Conservatoire under the guidance of U. Finazzi and L. Marzola. He finally specialised in Klavier-Vokalbegleitung at the University of the Arts in Graz with Dr Drake and S. Bartsch, obtaining a Diploma in Advanced Studies with honours. Winner of over 40 national and international solo and chamber music competitions, he has attended masterclasses in solo performance given by D.Rivera, M.Mika, J.Zvikovs, R.Zadra and P.Bordoni. He specialised in chamber music repertoire with the Trio di Parma, Pei-Shan Lee, P.Maurizzi, E. Battaglia, Chia Chou, E.Piemonti and, at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, with A.Lonquich, obtaining a diploma of merit. He also attended advanced courses at the Fiesole School of Music with B.Canino. He has performed at numerous concert halls in Italy, China, United States, Austria, Germany, France, Spain, Andorra, England, Slovenia, Turkey, Croatia and Switzerland, including the Kammermusiksaal in Berlin, the Sala Puccini and Sala Verdi in Milan, the Teatro Ristori in Verona, the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Aula Magna of the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone, and the Teatro G. da Udine; as well as for major music festivals and concert societies such as the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music in the United States, the Ticino Music Festival in Lugano, MITO inMilan and Turin, Serate Musicali, Società dei Concerti and the Società Umanitaria in Milan, the Ceren Necipoglu Harp Festival in Istanbul, the Emilia Romagna Festival, the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, the No Borders Music Festival in Tarvisio, the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and Amici della Musica inVerona, Modena, Udine and Venaria Reale.
Recognised from a young age for his talents as a chamber musician and accompanist to both instrumentalists and singers, he has worked for prestigious festivals, competitions and internationally renowned institutions such as the Bowdoin Music Festival, Wintergreen Summer Festival and the Miami Music Festival in the USA, Opéra de Lyon in France, Exzellenz – Labor Gesang//Opera in Germany, and many others. He has served, again as an accompanist, at the Conservatories of Milan, Como, Udine and Trieste. In addition to his concert activities, he holds the post of lecturer in piano accompaniment and collaboration at the Conservatory of Udine. He was recently invited to give masterclasses in piano and chamber music in the cities of Shijiazhuang and Qingdao in China.
He also performs regularly in a duo with the violinist C. Sebastianutto and the soprano A. Graf. He has recorded for Radio Classica, Suonare Records, Sony Classical and Zeer Music. He has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as N.Osipova, E.Bronzi, T.Carroll, M.Bogdanovic, M.Miletic, A.Ferreira, CDelangle, V.Zucchiatti, V.Nikitchenko, M.Freni, K.Ricciarelli, J.Thorell, D.Gauthier, H.Fassbender, and many others.