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Daniil Protsyuk was born in 1973 in Leningrad. He began to study music at the age of seven. In 1981 he was admitted to the Choral School of the State Academic Glinka Capella. He began to study the organ at the age of sixteen under the tutelage of Oleg Bezgubov. In 1991 he entered the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (faculty of choral conducting). One year later he became a student of the piano faculty, specialising in organ. From 1997 to 1999 he undertook a trainee assistantship with Professor Nina Oksetian. In 2000 he completed a post-graduate course under Professor Ivan Fedoseyev.

From 1994 – 1995 he trained at the Kirchliche Musikhochschule in Halle under Professors Johannes Schäfer, Volker Bräutigam and Klaus Eichhorn. He has studied the history of organ and organ construction. From 1999 – 2000 he trained at the Hochschule für Musik Hamburg under Professor Pieter van Dijk. In May 1995 he took part in the August Gottfried Ritter International Organists’ Competition (Magdeburg, Germany). In September 1996 he was awarded second prize at the International Organ Competition in Dobrich (Bulgaria).

Daniil Protsyuk’s concert career began at the age of eighteen. The musician has recorded several albums, among themThe Art of the Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, Reger, Dupré (The Organ Music of the Romantics) and Works by Bach, Karg-Elert, Schoenberg and Eben.

Daniil Protsyuk is the author of the books The Art of Organ Performance (1997) and Organ Technique and Performance Culture (2003), as well as a series of research and journalism articles. He has taken part in master-classes given by such illustrious maestri as Zsigmond Szathmáry, Lionel Rogg, Petr Eben, Hans Haselboeck, Wolfgang Stockmayer, Rudolf Heinemann, Andreas Liebig, Bernard Haas, Kurt Lueders and Hans Davidsson among others.