Dan Shilladay, Assistant Conductor
Dan read music at the University of Birmingham, where he studied composition with Vic Hoyland and viola with Christopher Yates, before completing a masters degree in contemporary music studies at the University of York with John Stringer (conducting and analysis) and Clare Barwick (modern and baroque viola). During a further year of study at the Royal College of Music with Susie Meszaros and Annette Isserlis, he was one of 21 period instrument performers 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 in addition to being a member of the 2008 Southbank Sinfonia, he performs with, among others, the OAE, the English Concert and the English Baroque Soloists, with whom he participated in the recent Covent Garden production of Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera. Alongside period instrument performance, he is especially interested in contemporary music, and has played in the York and Cheltenham festivals.