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Daniel Sharp

Daniel Sharp, of Philadelphia, started his musical education at the Settlement Music School at the age of nine. There he studied flute, music theory, and chamber music. Daniel studied flute with Ilya Ovrutsky, formerly of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra and Bolshoi Ballet Theater Orchestra, for ten years while at Settlement. He also studied chamber music with Shirley Curtiss, participating in the Weinstein Woodwind Quintet, an endowed ensemble that helps with the funding of private lessons for each of its members. In May of 2005, the Weinstein Quintet was selected to perform on NPR's "From the Top" and was aired in September of 2005.

Daniel also was a member of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra from 2003-2005, under the leadership of the celebrated Maestro Joseph Primavera. Youth Orchestra highlights include a 2004 tour of Eastern Europe with performances in Warsaw, Krakow, Buda-Pest, Vienna, Salzburg, and Prague; annual festival concerts in Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center; and a special honorary concert for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He has also substituted with the Haddonfield Symphony and the Curtis Symphony of The Curtis Institute of Music, working with such renown conductors such as Maestro Rossen Milanov and Maestro Christoph Eschenbach, and performing in halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York City.

In the summer of 2007, Daniel performed at the Gubbio Summer Festival in Gubbio (PG), Italy. There, he also participated in a master class given by Andrea Oliva, principal flute of the Symphony Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Ceclia, Rome.

Now Daniel is in his final year of study at Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music, where he studies with Kazuo Tokito,  solo piccolo in the Philadelphia Orchestra. Other teachers include David Cramer, Andrea Oliva, and Margaret Claudin. While at The Boyer College of Music, Daniel is actively involved with the Temple Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Luis Biava, as well as various chamber ensembles. Daniel also recently won the solo piccolo position with the Symphony in C, formerly Haddonfield Symphony, and is now a full time member of this orchestra, which is directed by Maestro Rossen Milanov.