Daniel Sanmartín Nieto.

musician & musicologist

organ harpsichord research editing
co-founder 8pés organ festival
executive editor at dos acordes
Roma

My musical journey began in childhood with percussion and piano, before I turned toward musicology — and it was through that path that I eventually found my way back to performance. I ended up studying harpsichord and organ at the Conservatory “Santa Cecilia” in Rome, graduating cum laude in both disciplines. Since then, my work has developed around three interconnected fields: historical keyboards, organ, and musicological research. As a harpsichordist, I focus on continuo accompaniment and directing from the keyboard. The organ holds a special place in my practice, with symphonic repertoire and orchestral transcriptions at its core. On the musicological side, I work on editorial projects and research into the hermeneutic principles of musical notation. My activity is mainly based in Italy and Spain, and I have a particular fondness for multidisciplinary projects.

super flumina: songs of life and nature

visual concert for percussion, piano & organ

Organ, arrangements, lighting design & artistic production

A visual concert drawing on Psalm 137, Gregorian chant, contemporary repertoire, and free improvisation, weaving together sacred resonances, soundscapes, and collective memory through water as a metaphor for life and spiritual longing — a project developed together with the percussionist Álvaro Jurado and the pianist Ana Senn.

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International Percussion
Festival of Almería (Spain),
6 August 2025

échos du trocadéro

solo recital

organ

A solo organ recital inspired by the musical world of the Palais du Trocadéro, the monumental concert hall built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878, where the modern symphonic organ emerged as both a sonic and cultural emblem of the Belle Époque. Through works by Charles-Marie Widor and César Franck — first performed on the legendary Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Palais — alongside my own organ transcription from Giacomo Puccini’s Le Villi, the program explores the encounter between architecture, technology, spectacle, and musical imagination at the dawn of modernity.

Échos du Trocadéro

sala accademica,
Conservatory "Santa Cecilia",
Rome (Italy),
24 may 2026

un pastor de cetro y lira

symphonies and dances from the court of Louis XV

harpsichord & conducting

A concert centered on the pastoral and ceremonial imagination of eighteenth-century France through orchestral suites and dances from the court of Louis XV. Moving between Arcadian landscapes and royal spectacle, the program traces how the language of dance became a shared space between theater, politics, and musical invention in the French late Baroque. Through works by Jean-Féry Rebel, Mademoiselle Duval, and Jean-Philippe Rameau, the project reflects on the coexistence of tradition and transformation within a repertoire where elegance, symbolism, and orchestral color converge.

Un pastor de cetro y lira

Orquesta Clásica de Vigo
Concatedral de Santa María, Vigo (Spain),
11 april 2026

Collage romani per Aldo Clementi

exhibition

exhibition design

A project dedicated to the exhibition design and graphic concept for Collage romani per Aldo Clementi, conceived for Nuova Consonanza 62nd Festival at Azienda Speciale Palaexpo-Mattatoio di Roma, where the visual identity of the project unfolds as an interpretative layer alongside the commemorative and musicological dimension of the event. Drawing on archival materials, scores, documents, and traces of performance history, the installation constructs a visual narrative that reflects Clementi’s own compositional thought, in which memory, structure, and perception are constantly interwoven.

Aldo Clementi Exhibition

Mattatoio di Roma,
Rome (Italy),
29 november-18 december 2025