Daniel Gazon, born in Waimes, Belgium, in 1955, first studied trumpet and double bass at the Conservatoire Royal de LiŹge. Having gained a diploma with distinction in 1977, he started his conducting studies in 1978 with Igor Markevitch and Max Deutsch. After graduating from the International Seminars at Weimar and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1984, he was invited by Seiji Ozawa to continue his studies at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood where he worked, in addition to Ozawa, with Kurt Masur and Joseph Silverstein. His most decisive experience was with Sergiu Celibidache with whom he studied

musical phenomenology and conducting from 1986–89.
During the last two decades he has performed regularly with all major Belgian orchestras. He has worked closely with Polish orchestras (the Polish Radio so, the Philharmonic Orchestras of Kraków, Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław and Łódź), as well as the Philharmonic Orchestra of Jena, the St Christophorus Chamber orchestra of Vilnius, Gaida Ensemble, Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Champ d’Action and the Beethoven Academy.
Besides his vast symphonic and operatic repertoire, Daniel Gazon is widely recognised as one of the finest specialists in 20th-century repertoire and has premiered works by L. de Pablo, Lindberg, Hölsky, Gerhard, Goeyvaerts, Vivier, Tiensuu, Zielińska, Van Hove and Francesconi, and was
a guest at the iscm World Music Days, Melos-Ethos, Ars Musica, Düsseldorf Kontrapunkt, Gaida and Warsaw Autumn international festivals.
A committed teacher, he has
a many years’ experience in giving masterclasses in conducting and training student orchestras in Belgium, Slovakia and Sweden.
He lives in Brussels.