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Nicholas Daniel (born Jan 9, 1962) is a British oboist and conductor. He won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition at eighteen and has since become one of the United Kingdom's most distinguished soloists. He is a founding member of the Haffner wind ensemble, the Britten Sinfonia and has formed a duo with pianist Julius Drake that dates from 1981. He was Professor of Oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for 10 years, then in 1997 became Professor of Oboe and Conducting at the Indiana University School of Music. He then was invited to be Prince Consort Professor of Oboe at the Royal College of Music in London before being appointed in 2004 as Professor of Oboe at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen, Germany. He has commissioned and premiered many new works for the oboe, thus increasing its status as a solo instrument.
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