Daisy Jopling

Daisy Jopling is a British classical/rock violinist and composer currently residing in New York.

She tours the world with her own band, and has spearheaded a music mentorship foundation.

She plays an Antonio Gragnani violin, made in Livorno, Italy in 1778 and a Yamaha electric violin.

Jopling was the first international violinist to perform a major concert at the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt on 4 November 2022 produced by Red Amber Events, collaborating with Egyptian Stars Hany Adel, Wust El-Balad and Noha Fekry.

She has released nine studio albums, two with BMG RCA Victor, and performed her own original show "Awakening" at Lincoln Center, NY.

Daisy Jopling was born on 19 February 1969 in London.

She began playing the violin at age 3 and at age 14 she performed Bach's Double Concerto for Violin and Oboe at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Jopling studied the violin with Frances Mason and Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music, David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Boris Kuschnir at the Konservatorium Wien, Austria.

At age 19, Jopling studied Hungarian folk violin in Gymes, Transylvania.

Five years later, Jopling travelled to Ghana alone to study Kpanlogo drumming at the Mustapha Tettey Addy drumming school.

Jopling moved from London to Vienna in 1994 and to New York in 2006.

For 13 years, Jopling toured with the creative string trio, Triology.

Triology recorded four studio albums, two of them with BMG RCA Victor.

Triology released "Triology plays Ennio Morricone" on 10 November 1998; and "Who Killed the Viola Player" on 11 May 2000.

On Extraplatte Records, Triology released their third album, "Around the World in 77 Minutes".

In 2000, Jopling and Milagros Pinera-Ibaceta, a Cuban singer, came together to create Son Dos.

The two were later joined by tubist Jon Sass.

Their last studio album was recorded with Jazz guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel on Material Records in 2003.

Triology toured the world, performing in over 23 countries.

The group has written the film music for three Georg Riha films, Schönbrunn, Die Wachau and Salzburg, and arranged and recorded Hans Zimmer's score in Hollywood for The Road to El Dorado and Spanglish.

Jopling has collaborated with some of the world's top artists.

With Triology, she shared a stage with Bobby McFerrin at the Centro Historico Festival in Mexico City, performed alongside solo violinists Julian Rachlin and Janine Jansen, and toured with jazz musician and producer, Wolfgang Muthspiel.

With Ensemble Modern in Germany, Jopling collaborated with Shubha Mudgal, and with Kristjan Järvi's "Absolute Ensemble" she collaborated with Joe Zawinul.

Son Dos combines Cuban, Irish, and Classical music and released one album in 2003 called "Mañana Mi Amor" on Extraplatte Records.

Son Dos has toured Belgium, Austria, Norway, Sweden, and Germany.

In 2005, Jopling performed before an audience of 30,000 people at the opening of the Vienna Festival in Austria with Cuban singer, Omara Portuondo.

Daisy performed solo before 30,000 at the Opening of the Vienna Festival in Austria in 2005 and toured to 53 concert halls in China in 2015 and 2019 with her band.

Jopling has composed the music for documentaries Wien: Gesicht einer Stadt, and "Feathers from the Sky", a NYC puppet show.

She has performed on fashion runways for Eileen Fisher and Danilo Gabrielli.

She has performed in many of the major Festivals and concert halls throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland and the Great Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt.

In May 2008 she was featured in the Russian Songbird Boris Grebenshchikov's concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

In 2009, Jopling collaborated with NYC producer Bojan Dugic to record her first solo album "Key to the Classics".

In 2011, Daisy collaborated with Zimbabwean superstar Oliver Mtukudzi,.

In 2011, Jopling formed "The Daisy Jopling Band" which has a classical/rock/jazz fusion sound.

Daisy has performed in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, England, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Japan, China, Korea, Australia, Singapore, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and the US, and continues to perform all over the world.

In June 2013 she premiered Tristan Schulze's "Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and Orchestra" with the Westchester Putnam Youth Orchestra.

In 2015, she collaborated with Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Rob Evan.

In 2021, she collaborated with iconic Olympic Ceremony Creator Daniel Flannery on Transcendence, a music-theatre hybrid based on African American author Sarah Bracey White's memoir "Primary Lessons," and on 4 November 2022 Jopling collaborated with Egyptian stars Hany Adel, Wust El-Balad and Noha Fekry on an extraordinary concert at the Great Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt.

In September 2016 she premiered her own original "Awakening" Show, conducted by Dean Fransen and featuring rhythm specialist Michael Feigenbaum.

It was later performed at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on 27 August 2017.