Important engagements in recent seasons have included his lieder recital debut at the Musikverein Wien, concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Kirill Petrenko, at the Salzburg Festival with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and Adam Fischer, with the SWR Symphonieorchester and Pablo Heras Casado, with Le Cercle de l'Harmonie and Jérémie Rhorer, and the Sinfonieorchester Basel and Delyana Lazarova. He is a regular guest at leading European opera houses such as the Wiener Staatsoper, La Scala di Milano, Dutch National Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, as well as at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, the Salzburger Festspiele, and the Bayreuth Festival.

Daniel Behle is also increasingly making a name for himself as a composer: his compositions and arrangements for tenor and piano trio have been widely acclaimed. In 2023, his first operetta ‘Hopfen und Malz’ (hop and malt) was performed at three opera houses in Germany. Currently, he is working on his second operetta, ‘Der Schmetterling’ (The Butterfly).

Daniel Behle regularly performs with renowned orchestras such as Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Wiener Symphoniker, and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. He works with eminent conductors such as Marc Albrecht, Bertrand de Billy, Ivor Bolton, Semyon Bychkov, Marek Janowski, Philippe Jordan, Vladimir Jurowski, Fabio Luisi, Andrew Manze, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Thielemann, Lorenzo Viotti and Franz Welser-Möst. Lieder recitals have taken him to venues including Wigmore Hall London, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and KKL Lucerne.

His discography includes several award-winning solo albums. His second Strauss album ‘Un-Erhört’ (Prospero) with Oliver Schnyder at the piano, ‘Heimat’ with German Hornsound (Prospero), and the Beethoven album ‘Gegenliebe’ with Jan Schultsz on the fortepiano (Pan Classics) have attracted particular attention.

Daniel Behle was honoured with the OPUS Klassik Singer of the Year in 2020 for his aria album "MoZart". In 2024, he received the Honorary Award of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.

Daniel Behle was born in Hamburg and lives in Basel with his family.

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