Daniel Whitener

Daniel is a recent graduate of the Bard Conservatory of Music and the recipient of its first M.M. degree in choral conducting. Over the past few months, he also got married and moved to New Jersey. He is excited to have the opportunity to work with C4 as an emerging conductor and aspiring composer. At Bard, he collaborated with the student-run ensemble Contemporaneous, "a new music ensemble based in New York dedicated to presenting music of emerging and established composers of our time." contemporaneous.org

Currently he sings with the Schola Cantorum quartet every Sunday at St. Mary's Church in Nutley, NJ under Jonathan Ryan. In addition to his work in the world of vocal and choral music, he is an avid and active banjo player, currently with the jazz-bluegrass group Blue Plate Special of north Jersey. facebook.com/pages/Blue-Plate-Special/248577158896 pandora.com/dan-whitener