Born in Sweden in 1969 of a Swedish mother and a father of Viennese origin, Daniel Propper settled in Paris in 1994, where he now enjoys an international career.

At a very early age Daniel began studying with the great Swedish pedagogue Gunnar Hallhagen and later worked with the legendary Tatiana Nikolaieva, who encouraged him to perform The Goldberg Variations at The Salzburg Festival in 1990. After spending one year at the famous Juilliard School in New York, he obtained his soloist degree in 1993 at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He later completed his studies at the Paris Conservatoire. His teachers in France included Bernard Ringeissen, Jacques Rouvier, Bruno Rigutto and Gerard Fremy. 

Daniel won a great many awards and prizes including, in 1990, the biggest grant ever allocated by the Swedish Royal Academy of Music and the first price at the Kil International Piano Competition in Sweden.

He has interpreted a vast number of concertos, notably Concerto No 3 by Rachmaninoff with the Stockholm Symphony Orchestra conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, and Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin with the Ile de France National Orchestra. In chamber music, he has played with the violonists Alexandre Brussilovsky, Anastasia Khitruk and Jack Liebeck, cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand and pianist Noël Lee.

The last years include perfomances in Canada at Boris Brott's Summer Festival, China (Piano aux Jacobins Festival held in Beijing's Forbidden City), The United Emirates (Abu Dhabi Festival), Kuwait, Sweden (Royal Palace Festival of Stockholm) and throughout France. After his acclaimed London debut in Wigmore Hall in Januray 2007, with the Goldberg Variations, he also performed as soloist in Oxford, Vienna and Budapest as well as in a Grieg Festival in Paris that he conducted before returning to the Wigmore Hall with a Schubert recital in 2008.

Daniel's recent recordings on CD include three volumes of Grieg's Lyric Pieces, the Goldberg Variations by Bach on CD and DVD, and the Last American Dream by Bentam.

Among his ongoing projects are the complete cycle of Beethoven's 32 sonatas in concert and recitals with music by Grieg and other Scandinavian composers. Daniel will also contribute to celebrating the great romantic composers whose bicentennial anniversaries are approching: Chopin, Schumann and Liszt.