Daniel Ciobanu first appeared on the international stages in 2016 after sweeping gold medals at the renowned Unisa International Piano Competition in South Africa and BNDES International Piano Festival of Rio de Janeiro. Daniel then went on to win both the Audience Prize and Silver Medal at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv in 2017. He subsequently appeared at Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Konzerthaus Berlin, and toured in Japan, China, Taiwan, South Africa and Brazil. In 20/21 he was announced as the first ever Artist in Residence at the George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest for a period of three seasons.

Daniel is a visionary and has created a fresh and innovative international platform for young artists, founding the #SharpFestival. The biennial festival features not only classical programming but also embraces other sympathetic art forms, including jazz, video-mapping, painting, and dance.

In September 2020 he released his first CD, a solo disc of works by Prokofiev, Debussy, Liszt and Enescu, which was released on the Accentus label, and received outstanding critical acclaim.

Ciobanu started learning the piano at the age of nine in Piatra Neamt, Romania. He went on to win scholarships to study in Scotland, graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He completed his studies at the École Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot” in Paris with Marian Rybicki and in the Universität der Künste in Berlin with Pascal Devoyon and Markus Groh.