Daniel Bhattacharya began playing the violin aged three. His musical education has encompassed the Purcell School, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto with professors including Nick Roth, Yossi Zivoni and Lorand Fenyves. His solo performances have included concert appearances at the Seville International Music Festival and Bath Georgian Festival. He has given recitals in the Purcell Room, Litchfield and Brighton Festivals and tours of Russia, India, Switzerland and Canada, was associate-principal second violin in the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and has played regularly with the London Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Touring Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia and the BT Scottish Ensemble. In June 2001 appeared as soloist alongside Andrew Taylor with the Christ Church Festival Orchestra in Brahms' Double Concerto at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Daniel was for several years a member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; he is currently Head of Strings at Stowe School, joint artistic director of the Alfriston Summer Music Festival and leader of Ensemble Esteeika, formed by composer Tunde Jegede and Paul Gladstone-Reid to specialise in modern African classical music.