Daniel Valentin Marx’s international career began by winning numerous prizes and awards in Germany, the US, Italy, Greece and England – this allowed him to record two albums with the record labels Genuin Classics and Naxos. His delicate interpretations and expressive abilities have been hailed worldwide, as has his ability to always put the music first and connect it to human emotions. Marx is the winner of over 12 international competitions, awards, and scholarships in Europe and America such as 22° International Guitar Competition Hermoupolis, Greece (2014); American Guitar Society – Bickford Competition, USA (2017); Deutscher Musikrat – Stipendienprogramm Klassik (2021); Thornton Scholarship, USA (2016). He has performed in North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia, performing in such venues as the Bing Theater of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA), Apollon Theatre (Greece), Hakuju Hall (Japan), Vallisa Auditorium (Italy) and at WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz (Germany). Marx gave his orchestral debut as a soloist with Erding Chamber Orchestra at the age of 17.

Daniel Valentin Marx began playing the guitar at the age of seven as a student of Peter Hackel at the Music School of Erding. He studied with Susanne Schoeppe, instructor at the Musikhochschule München, as well as with his most important teacher, Roberto Aussel, at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, where he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees with distinction. A Thornton Scholarship subsequently enabled him to pursue graduate studies with the musicians of the LAGQ (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet) and Pepe Romero at USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. As winner of the DCS-Award 2019, he is conducting a research project at the International Guitar Research Centre of the University of Surrey, in collaboration with Professor Stephen Goss.

Marx has performed in recordings and broadcasts for BR, WDR, Radio Nacional Argentina, Classical KUSC, Radio Vaticana Italia, SBS Radio Australia and the Arte television channel. His transcriptions, arrangements and musical discoveries are published by the Canadian publisher Les Productions d’Oz, where he directs his own publication series. Marx is the artistic director of the guitar festival in his hometown of Dorfen.