Pianist Danijel Detoni is one of the most sought-after Croatian artists. At age 9 he began studying piano with Olga Detiček at the Vatroslav Lisinski School. Born in Zagreb in 1983, Danijel won his BA and MA degrees in piano in the class of László Baranyay and Balázs Kecskés at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest and studied for a year as a student of Itamar Golan at the Paris Conservatory. He attended masterclasses and lessons given by artists as Pnina Salzman, Hamsa al-Wadi, Emanuel Krasovsky, Felix Gottlieb, Pál Éder and Dénes Várjon.  Being a dedicated chamber musician since his early age he won the first prize in duo with Márta Deák at the Leó Weiner State Competition for Chamber Music in Budapest in April 2003, and in August 2006 he received the Award of the Israeli Isman  Foundation for his extraordinary interpretation of Ligeti's music. He performed as soloist and chamber musician at festivals such as Warsaw Autumn, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Music Biennale Zagreb, Musica Danubiana, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Osor Musical Evenings, Julian Rachlin and Friends, Trieste Prima, Carniarmonie, ReMusica etc. Danijel appeared as soloist with Slovenian Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic, Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, the String Orchestra Dušan Skovran, Budapest Strings, Beijing Symphony Orchestra. He played under the baton of Oliver von Dohnányi, Lior Shambadal, Tan Lihua, Patrick Fournillier, Zoltán Rácz, Pavle Dešpalj, Carlo Tenan… He has performed live or on recordings with many musicians including Katarina Livljanić (as a member of Ensemble Dialogos), Radovan Vlatković, Kajana Pačko, Krešimir Stražanac, Tristan Thery, Ivana Lazar, Itamar Golan, Goran Jurković, Boris Brovtsyn, Gábor Boldoczki, Irvin Venyš, Enrico Dindo…
​Danijel regularly makes recordings for Croatian radio and was awarded as the best young musician in 2008 by the Croatian Jeunesses Musicales. He has been teaching piano and chamber music at the Zagreb Music Academy since 2009.


Pijanist Danijel Detoni (Zagreb, 1983.) najprije je pohađao Glazbenu školu Vatroslav Lisinski u Zagrebu (razred Olge Detiček), gdje je godine 1996. osvojio Nagradu Mira Sakač za najboljeg mladog pijanista. Bio je i dobitnikom najviših hrvatskih učeničkih nagrada, među ostalima, prve nagrade na Natjecanju učenika glazbenih škola Hrvatske u Varaždinu (1995.) Diplomirao je i magistrirao glasovir (razred Lászla Baranyaya i Balázsa Kecskésa) na Glazbenom sveučilištu Liszt Ferenc u Budimpešti, a četvrtu je godinu studirao na glavnom pariškom Konzervatoriju, u razredu Itamara Golana. Svoja je znanja stjecao i u radu s renomiranim umjetnicima kao što su Pnina Salzman, Emanuel Krasovsky, Hamsa Al-Wadi, Felix Gottlieb, Pál Éder i Dénes Várjon. Od ranih dana strastveni je komorni glazbenik pa je u travnju 2003., u duu s violinisticom Mártom Deák, pobijedio na Državnome natjecanju Leó Weiner u Budimpešti, a u kolovozu 2006. dobio Nagradu izraelske Zaklade Isman za iznimnu interpretaciju Ligetijeve glazbe. Nastupao je s umjetnicima kao što su Katarina Livljanić, Radovan Vlatković, Kajana Pačko, Krešimir Stražanac, Ivana Lazar, Itamar Golan, Boris Brovtsyn, Gábor Boldoczki, Goran Jurković, Boris Andrianov, Tristan Thery, Irvin Venyš, Pavel Vernikov, David Aaron Carpenter, Enrico Dindo te ansamblima kao što su Trio Lenitas, Zagrebački kvartet saksofona, Budapest Strings, Komorni orkestar UMZE, Komorni orkestar Dušan Skovran i dr. Kao solist i komorni glazbenik nastupio je na festivalima kao što su Varšavska jesen, Muzički biennale Zagreb, Musica Danubiana u Ljubljani, Dubrovačke ljetne igre, Osorske glazbene večeri, Julian Rachlin i prijatelji, Paško ljeto, Transeuropéenes u Rouenu, Schleswig-Holstein u Hamburgu, ReMusica u Prištini, Carniarmonie u Trstu, Trieste Prima u Trstu i Croatie, la voici u Parizu. Hrvatska glazbena mladež proglasila ga je najboljim glazbenikom 2008. godine. Od 2009. podučava klavir, a od 2015. i komornu glazbu na Muzičkoj akademiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu.