began his career in musical theatre as pianist-conductor of off-Broadway’s long-running show The Fantasticks. He has since served as conductor for Broadway and National Touring companies of Timbuktu!, Bubbling Brown Sugar, and Ain’t Misbehavin’. He has conducted several European productions of Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies. His compositions have received performances by the Yonkers Civic Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Symphony of New York, the Mozart Society Orchestra at Harvard, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Topanga Symphony, and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. Mr. McDaniel is a graduate of Capital University and Boston University, and has studied as a Fulbright Scholar in Paris, France.
