Daniel is a composer and working musician in New York City whose work includes scores for plays, musicals, opera, and film. His full-length music-theater works include The Singing (Richard Rodgers Award), Laughing Pictures (Fordham Lincoln Center), Jungle Book (Imagination Stage), and an operatic version of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles (Ars Nova, Miami University) as well as original music for thirty productions of Shakespeare plays (Shakespeare & Co, FSU/Asolo). A leader in urban teaching artistry and arts program design, he has partnered with numerous arts-in-education institutions, including the 92nd Street Y, The Little Orchestra Society, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Lincoln Center Education, and Project Music Heals Us, working with a variety of communities in public schools, homeless shelters, and state and federal correctional facilities (Sing Sing, Rikers Island, Danbury).  BM Miami University Music Composition & Theory, MFA NYU/Tisch in Musical Theater Writing. Author: A TEACHING ARTIST'S COMPANION: HOW TO DEFINE AND DEVELOP YOUR PRACTICE (Oxford University Press 2019)