Daniel Biro is a French musician

Musician

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 and composer

Composer

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 of electronic, instrumental, and multimedia works. His music draws upon diverse roots in jazz

Jazz

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, rock

Rock music

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, classical

Classical music

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, and electronic music

Electronic music

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. As an improvisor, Biro specializes in exploring the sonic depths of the Fender Rhodes electric piano, with which he performs regularly. Daniel Biro is currently based in London

London

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Education

He studied at the Jazz Conservatory of Monaco under the direction of Roger Grosjean

Roger Grosjean

Roger Grosjean started his career as a French Air Force fighter pilot in France, England and North Africa. This involved a short stint as a Security Service double agent during World War II . He then became a very successful archeologist in Corsica. Grosjean was born on July 25, 1920, in...

 and the Nice University in France.

Music

In the 1980s and 90s, Biro formed pop-rock bands such as the electro outfit IC and L'Orange

L'Orange

"L'Orange" is a 1964 song recorded by French singer and songwriter Gilbert Bécaud. It was covered in 2003 by the contestants of the French third version of the TV reality show Star Academy, and achieved a great success in France and Belgium , where it topped the chart for several weeks...

 with French vocalist songwriter Véronique Joly. He also toured worldwide as a keyboard player with Dennis Greaves' The Truth and EMI

EMI

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-signed Big Bam Boo. He has also been very much involved with contemporary dance, notably with choreographer Jane Turner

Jane Turner

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 with whom he has developed new real-time interactive dancers/musicians technologies based on Emergence Theory, where simple patterns generate complex results.

In 1993, Biro founded Sargasso Records

Sargasso Records

Sargasso is a London based record label and live events promotion company founded by Daniel Biro.It was established 1993 and integrated into Esfor Limited in 2008. It specialises in mostly avant garde, innovative and contemporary experimental music....

 to promote contemporary experimental music

Experimental music

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He plays and records with his jazz/psychedelic band Mysteries Of The Revolution formed together with multi-instrumentalist Peter BB Davis.

He is not the Daniel Biro from Hawk Nelson

Hawk Nelson

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Film

Biro has scored numerous short films including a poetry video for Pennhaligon and an award-winning film by French director Olivier Sarrazin.

Selected Works

Instrumental Compositions:

• Shir Hadash (2009) for 5 male voices, electric piano and electronics
• A Thin, Still Sound (2008) for bass clarinet and live electronics
• e-Merge (2004) for 5 voices and e-Merge computer system
• Black Fire On White Fire (2003) for amplified calligraphy, voice, 7 clarinets and electronics
• Re-sound (2000) for electric piano and tape
• Elegant Enigmas (1999) for harpsichord and electric piano
• Slow, Flow, Blow (1998) for 7 clarinets
• The Comparative Anatomy of Angels (1996) for 3 voices and tape
• Beba in White (1995) for 3 electric guitars and tape
• With These Gloves You Will Enter Mirrors Like Water (1995) for voice, string 4tet and synthesizer

For Contemporary Dance Performances:

• e-Merge
• Hybrid
• Desert
• Beauty And The Beast
• Soho Square
• A Still Point Of The Turning World

For Theatre:

• Membrs Only
• HalfLife
• Dead Man's Coat
• Pedalo
• W.C.
• Firelines
• No Strings Attached
• The Woman Downstairs
• Horace
• 3 Plays by Yeats

For Film:

• Poolside
• The Incandescence Of One Man's Journey To Remain A Solid Object
• Carey Jones Architects
• 4014
• Book of Dust
• Lessons in How to Wear Red
• Wrap Me In Film
• Death Leap
• Viva Il Reggimento

For Television:

• Rêves De Sable (French TV) 2011
• Bioattitude Sans Béatitude (French TV) 2008
• Parce Que Vous Ne Valez Rien (French TV) 2007
• Sous La Barbe De St Nicholas (French TV) 2006
• In 2 Minds (BBC) 2003

As Film Director:

• Poolside - (2010)
• The Pinocchio Files - (2010)
• In Light (2009)
• O2:2:CO2 (Day, Night, People, River) - (2009)
• The Incandescence Of One Man's Journey To Remain A Solid Object - (2008)
• Carey Jones Architects - (2007)

Discography

A Still, Thin Sound (2009) - Sargasso SCD28063

Mysteries Of The Revolution (2007) - Blue Serene Focus BSF1001/10

The Long Journey Home (with Rob Palmer) (2004) - Sargasso SCD28050

2 People In A Room (with L'Orange) (2002) - Sargasso SSD39011

Elegant Enigmas (1999) - Sargasso SCD28028

The Comparative Anatomy Of Angels (1996) - Sargasso SCD28022

Soho Square (1993) - Sargasso SCD28021

External links

• Official site