Daniel McCarthy

Multi-instrumentalist Dan McCarthy is sought after as an expert and performer of historical instruments that are sadly and conspicuously absent from the field of Early Music in the United States. McCarthy is regularly featured playing viola d’amore with groups such as Washington Bach Consort, Clarion Music Society, and Bach Bethlehem. Recent and upcoming appearances on Tenor Viola include Bach Vespers in New York, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Washington Bach Consort, Harmonia Stellarum Houston, and The Fooles—a New York-based violin consort. McCarthy was a part of the first class of baroque violists ever accepted into the Historical Performance program at Juilliard. He has served as section violist with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, concertmaster of the Austin Baroque Orchestra, and tenor gambist with Parthenia. He has also toured throughout North America, East Asia, and Europe with artists and groups such as Jordi Savall, Masaaki Suzuki, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, American Bach Soloists, and Tempesta di Mare. McCarthy is an expert on historical gut strings and is a distributor for Cordedrago strings based in Bologna, Italy.