Dániel Ember - Principal Horn

Dániel Ember was born in Debrecen (Hungary) in 1982 and studied at the Zoltán Kodály Music School there with Miklós Kökényessy. He went on to study at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ferenc Tarjáni. During this training, he was a member of the Ernő-Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra Budapest and the Hungarian Telecom Symphony Orchestra Budapest.

In 2005, Dániel Ember was accepted into the Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, where he was taught by Stefan de Leval Jezierski until 2007. From 2010 to 2011 he was in Marie-Luise Neunecker’s class at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. Between 2014 and 2018, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Christian-Friedrich Dallmann. From 2007 to 2013 he was principal horn at the Hamburg State Opera.

Dániel Ember has won numerous prizes, including in 2001 in Brno (Czech Republic), 2002 in London and 2004 in Telfs (Austria). He was awarded 2nd prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2010 and 3rd prize at the International Instrumental Competition in Markneukirchen in 2012.

He has been principal horn in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2013 and has also been a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 2017.