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Daniel Pioro
Photo: Robert McFadzean/RCS
The violinist Daniel Pioro has joined the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as Associate Artist in Contemporary String Performance.
An advocate of new and experimental music, Pioro has launched a new contemporary music collective featuring 13 students at the RCS. He will work intensively with his newly-created consort of four cellists, two violinists and three viola players, as well as four composers, over the next twelve months, exposing them to the daily workings of artists from all fields. The line-up will change every year.
Pioro said: ‘This is not just creating a group to play nice music. It’s about so much more,’ explained Pioro. ‘Studio Collective is a group that exists to see how far we can push music, to explore how the music we make can be a work of art in its truest sense, treated with the same awe and preciousness as art in a gallery. It’s collaborating with people from other creative backgrounds, such as dancers a