Danny Driver was born and grew up in London. His mother is Israeli, and his first language was Hebrew. His father is a keen amateur violinist.
Through his mother he is descended from the Baal Shem Tov (also an ancestor of his wife, the American conductor Rebecca Miller).
He studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge before moving to the Royal College of Music.
He made his Wigmore Hall recital later that year, and has since appeared at Southbank Centre, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Royal Albert Hall, and Symphony Hall, Birmingham. He has played with such orchestras as the British Broadcasting Corporation Scottish Symphony Orchestra, British Broadcasting Corporation Concert Orchestra, the Tel Aviv Soloists, the American Symphony Orchestra, the New Professionals, the Orchestra of Opera North, and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. He made his Proms debut in August 2011 in Franz Reizenstein"s Concerto Popolare.
His chamber music activities include collaborations with violinists Alexander Sitkovetsky, the reader Gabriel Woolf, as well as cellists, singers, clarinettists and others
Danny Driver gave the United States premiere of York Bowen"s Piano Concerto Number. 3 with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans on 29 April 2009.
Other composers whose piano music he has championed include Mily Balakirev, Erik Chisholm, Eugen d"Albert, Nikolai Medtner, Max Reger, Clara Schumann and Richard Strauss. His recordings include:
the 6 piano sonatas of York Bowen
the 2 piano concertos by Erik Chisholm
the 8 Suites by George Frideric Handel
music by C. P. East. Bach, Mily Balakirev and Benjamin Dale.
