Daniel Urbanowicz
Education and Training
’14 MM New England Conservatory
Awards and Recognition
Florida Orchestra, Viola Audition Winner (2022)
Sarasota Orchestra, Viola Audition Winner (2019)
Palladium Creative Fellowship Grant Recipient (2023)
Daniel Urbanowicz
Division: Expanded Education
Department: Strings
Instrument: Viola; Violin
DANIEL URBANOWICZ holds a master’s degree from New England Conservatory of Music and a bachelor’s degree from Cleveland Institute of Music. Urbanowicz is currently a violist in the Sarasota Orchestra, a position he won in 2019.
Additionally, Urbanowicz is a former tenured member of the Florida Orchestra. In the summers, Dan is on faculty at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, where he teaches viola. Furthermore, he is the artistic director and founder of an historical performance series in its sixth season called St Pete Baroque. St Pete Baroque is dedicated to giving new life to old masterpieces and giving a voice to newly discovered works. Urbanowicz has appeared with the Colorado Music Festival, Jacksonville Symphony, and Southwest Florida Symphony. Urbanowicz has played with the New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, the Firelands Orchestra, and the Plymouth Philharmonic. Urbanowicz has served as principal violist of the Augusta Symphony, Charlottesville Opera, Gulfshore Opera, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra as a historical performance musician has been a featured guest artist with the Colorado Chamber Players, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, College of Charleston’s Second Monday Series, and Augusta University as a guest lecturer and recitalist. His principal teachers include Martha Katz and Jeffrey Irvine. Mr. Urbanowicz plays on a 2017 Robert Clemens Viola. Urbanowicz’s viola d’amore is from the 19th century and is of unknown origin.
Curriculum Vitae
’14 MM New England Conservatory
- Florida Orchestra, Viola Audition Winner (2022)
- Sarasota Orchestra, Viola Audition Winner (2019)
- Palladium Creative Fellowship Grant Recipient (2023)
