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Dutch pianist Daria van den Bercken makes herself heard on the world piano stage in inimitable ways. Playing with “grand artistry’ (Telegraph) and 'With musical affection and immaculate virtuosity' (Gramophone), Daria is succeeding in finding new audiences for unknown keyboard music by composers such as George Frideric Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, C.P.E. Bach, Mathilde Wantenaar and Lili Boulanger in unique artistic projects.

As a soloist Daria performed with orchestras like Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and other Dutch orchestras, Seoul Philharmonic, Radio France Philharmonique, Bochumer Symphoniker, and British Sinfonia, under the baton of conductors like Yannick Nézet- Seguin, Ton Koopman, JoAnn Falletta, Stefan Asbury, and Shi-Yeon Sung. And as a recitalist recent highlights were recitals in Barbican Centre London (stepping in for Angela Hewitt), Concertgebouw Big hall Series, Concertgebouw small hall series, Vienna Konzerthaus and Zipper Hall Los Angeles and more.

In 2016, Daria founded the Keys to Music Foundation through which she aims to reach new audiences for classical music through artistic and educational projects which won many accolades. Her biggest project so far is the Piano Biennale, an international piano and music festival in two cities in the Netherlands. It is the first piano festival worldwide in which different art forms collaborate in unique productions with the piano at its core. The first edition with an audience, themed “FREE THE PIANO” about ground-breaking moments in piano music, was held in April 2023. Audiences and press alike praised it with 5-star reviews. Piano Biennale 2025 saw the first combined concert and running event in which hundreds of runners finished in the concert hall.

Daria also tours Europe with flamenco dancer Israel Galvan with Stravinsky Rite of Spring, has millions of listeners for her solo Handel, Mozart and Scarlatti albums for SONY CLASSICAL and Doorway Music, is winner of the Amsterdam Art Prize, and performed a viral TED Talk.

In 2024 Daria hosted her first podcast about the elements which make a piano recital magical, and she appeared weekly as the piano expert on the Dutch prime time TV show “The Piano”. In her spare time she writes opinion pieces on the state of culture and cultural education in the Netherlands.

www.dariavandenbercken.com
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'With musical affection and immaculate virtuosity' (Gramophone) ‘This is grand artistry’ (Telegraph).
‘She has a tone you only hear in great pianists and with her playing she knows how to take the audience with her’ (Volkskrant)
'Bercken’s lightning-fast ribbons of notes flowing like melted butter (...) perky and full of character’ (The Arts Desk)