Considered by critics as one of the emerging figures with more projection within the Spanish historicist scene, Daniel Pinteño was born in Malaga (Andalusia, Spain), began his studies at the Professional Conservatory of Music of Murcia under the guidance of Emilio Fenoy and later finished them with Juan Luis Gallego at the Conservatory of Music of Aragón (Zaragoza). During his formative years, he actively attended master classes with international soloists such as Nicolás Chumachenco, Alexei Bruni, Mikhail Kopelman, Alberto Lysy and Ida Bieler, among others. Later, he moved to Germany where he continued his studies with the professor of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Nachum Erlich.
Since 2010, he oriented his musical work to the interpretation of the repertoire from the dawn of violin music of the seventeenth century to the romantic language of the mid-nineteenth century with historical criteria. To this end, he received classes from professors such as Enrico Onofri, Anton Steck, Hiro Kurosaki, Catherine Manson, Enrico Gatti, Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, Margaret Faultless, Jaap ter Linden, among others. In addition, he studied Musicology at the University of La Rioja and the Complutense University of Madrid. He studied baroque violin at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Toulouse (France) with the Swiss violinist Gilles Colliard and at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid under the tutelage of Hiro Kurosaki.
His passion for the recovery of Spanish musical heritage of the 18th century has earned him international critical acclaim. In 2019, he won a Leonardo grant for researchers and cultural creators awarded by the BBVA Foundation, with which he carried out a project to recover and record the album ‘Antonio de Literes (1673-1747): Sacred cantatas for alto’. In 2023 he received the ‘Artistic Production Award 2022’ from Malaga City Council and the La Caixa Foundation.
Daniel Pinteño plays on an anonymous Italian violin from the mid-18th century.