Daniel Black
Conductor
Montreal-based conductor Daniel Black has earned a reputation as a versatile musician capable of delivering "vital and engaging" performances in a variety of genres and styles, from ballet to opera, standards of the classic orchestral repertoire to Pops, educational programming, and film concerts. He completed a highly successful four-year tenure as Resident Conductor of the Florida Orchestra in 2022, where he conducted over 150 performances including the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts's new triple concerto "Contact" with the acclaimed trio Time for Three.
In 2026-27, Black returns to conduct the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Florida Orchestra, as well as debut concerts with the Charlotte Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, and the Santa Barbara Symphony, among others. He is also a candidate for music director of the Idaho Falls Symphony Orchestra in Idaho.
Black’s recent guest-conducting engagements have included the Nashville Symphony, Detroit Opera, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Boise Philharmonic, Tallahassee Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Dnipro Opera Company, Hamilton Philharmonic, Eugene Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Kamloops Symphony, and many others. Black previously served as Assistant and then Associate Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony in Texas, conducting over 150 performances.
Also an accomplished composer and arranger, Black is the conductor and principal arranger for the Dreams of Bollywood orchestral pops show. His orchestration of Dvořák’s Gypsy Songs, op. 55 is published by Bärenreiter Prague, and a recording of the same is set to be released on the Chandos label. He is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre- Quebec.
Black has thrice been awarded the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award and was a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, the Kurt Masur Conducting Workshop, and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. He has studied with Kurt Masur, Edo de Waart, Robert Spano, Hugh Wolff, Larry Rachleff, Marin Alsop, Victor Yampolsky, Leonid Korchmar, and Neil Varon. He has studied composition with Richard Danielpour, Ana Sokolovic and François-Hugues Leclair.
