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Daniel Sweaney is Assistant Professor of Viola. He made his New York debut in Avery Fisher Hall at the 1999 Mostly Mozart Festival performing with world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman. “…extremely talented and highly trained…poised and accomplished…” said Strings Magazine. Mr. Sweaney began his musical studies at age eleven and has since had a diverse education in the United States and Europe. He has won many prizes and performed across the globe.

Daniel Sweaney has won prizes at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Down Beat Magazine Chamber Music Competition, was a two time recipient of the Interlochen Arts Academy Fine Arts Award for Outstanding Performance in Viola, he was the recipient a Frank Huntington Beebe Grant, and winner of the Fifth Annual Sister Mary Faustina Memorial Concert in Marylhurst, Oregon. He has been teaching assistant to Heidi Castleman and a chamber music coach at The Perlman Music Program. He participated in exchange programs through The Perlman Music Program on trips to Tel-Aviv and Shanghai. Mr. Sweaney has held faculty positions at the Cleveland School for the Arts, Rice University Preparatory Department, the Lovett School in Atlanta Georgia, The Boulder Arts Academy, was a guest artist at the St. Joseph’s School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, teaching assistant at the University of Colorado, and is on the faculty at the Interlochen Viola Institute.

Mr. Sweaney has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Ani Aznavoorian, Ron Leonard, Stefan Milenkovich, Merry Peckham, and Peter Sellers. While living in Austria, he performed regularly with the Camerata Salzburg under Sir Roger Norrington, Leonidas Kavakos, Walter Weller, and Heinrich Schiff. Recent venues and festivals include, Salzburg Mozarteum Grossersaal, Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, KKL Lucerne, Bilbao and Madrid, Spain, Athens Megaron, Camerata Salzburg’s Beethoven and Haydn Begegnung, Vienna Festwochen, Salzburg Mozart Woche, Bergen Norway Festspiel, Schubertiad Bezau, Austria, Würzburg Mozart Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, The Best of the Nordrhein-Westfalen series, The Beethoven House in Bonn, SUNY Purchase, Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series and an open workshop with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He has recorded with the Camerata Salzburg for Universal the complete works for flute and orchestra with soloist Andrea Griminelli and works by Mozart with pianist Sebastian Knauer and violinist Daniel Hope.

Daniel Sweaney studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy, The Cleveland Institute of Music, Rice University, the Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg, and the University of Colorado. He has participated in many summer festivals such as The Sewanne Summer Music Center, The Quartet Program, The Aspen Music Festival and School, and The International Musician’s Seminar, Prussia Cove. His major teachers include Heidi Castleman, David Holland, Thomas Riebl, Martha Strongin-Katz, Roger Tapping, Erika Eckert, and Geraldine Walther. In 2007 Daniel Sweaney toured with the Signum String Quartet and was heard on a live broadcast by West German Radio. He was recently appointed Instructor of viola at the University of Alabama. In his spare time he enjoys training for endurance events such as open water swimming, triathlons, and marathons.