Virtuoso pianist playing Baroque music.

Digital Audio Download Includes:
1 Prelude And Fugue No.1 In C Major, BWV 870: Praeludium
2 Prelude And Fugue No.1 In C Major, BWV 870: Fuga
3 Prelude And Fugue No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 871: Praeludium
4 Prelude And Fugue No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 871: Fuga
5 Prelude And Fugue No. 3 In C-Sharp Major, BWV 872: Praeludium
6 Prelude And Fugue No. 3 In C-Sharp Major, BWV 872: Fuga
7 Prelude And Fugue No. 4 In C-Sharp Minor, BWV 873: Praeludium
8 Prelude And Fugue No. 4 In C-Sharp Minor, BWV 873: Fuga
9 Prelude And Fugue No. 5 In D Major, BWV 874: Praeludium
10 Prelude And Fugue No. 5 In D Major, BWV 874: Fuga
11 Prelude And Fugue No. 6 In D Minor, BWV 875: Praeludium
12 Prelude And Fugue No. 6 In D Minor, BWV 875: Fuga
13 Prelude And Fugue No. 7 In E-Flat Major, BWV 876: Praeludium
14 Prelude And Fugue No. 7 In E-Flat Major, BWV 876: Fuga
15 Prelude And Fugue No. 8 In D-Sharp Minor, BWV 877: Praeludium
16 Prelude And Fugue No. 8 In D-Sharp Minor, BWV 877: Fuga
17 Prelude And Fugue No. 9 In E Major, BWV 878: Praeludium
18 Prelude And Fugue No. 9 In E Major, BWV 878: Fuga
19 Prelude And Fugue No. 10 In E Minor, BWV 879: Praeludium
20 Prelude And Fugue No. 10 In E Minor, BWV 879: Fuga
21 Prelude And Fugue No. 11 In F Major, BWV 880: Praeludium
22 Prelude And Fugue No. 11 In F Major, BWV 880: Fuga
23 Prelude And Fugue No. 12 In F Minor, BWV 881: Praeludium
24 Prelude And Fugue No. 12 In F Minor, BWV 881: Fuga

Daniel-Ben Pienaar was born in South Africa. He made his debut there at the age of 14, playing Liszt's E-flat concerto. After winning his country's National Youth Music Competition and the University of South Africa Overseas Music Scholarship Competition he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. There he won the Queen's Commendation in 1997 and held the Hodgson Fellowship in 1997/8.

Performances include appearances at the National Arts Fesival, the State Theatre and the Nico Malan Theatre in South Africa, debut concerts in America (including the Goldberg Variations) and Japan (including the Chopin Ballades), a Schumann concerto with the Philharmonia and the Stravinsky Concerto at the RNCM. In 2000 he gave the complete cycle of Mozart's 18 piano sonatas at the Duke's Hall of the Royal Academy of Music and later the same year also the 6 keyboard partitas of Bach.

In 2003 he recorded Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 for Prometheus Editions in London, and a Chopin recital (including the 4 Ballades) for Victor Japan. Future recording projects will include the Goldberg Variations and complete Gibbons keyboard works.

With violinist Narimichi Kawabata he has performed all over Japan, at the Wigmore Hall in London, and for his American debut.

Performances in 2005 include a Liszt Sonata at Hamarikyu Hall,Tokyo and the Well-Tempered Clavier in the US.