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A musician, composer, and interdisciplinary artist of diverse interests, Daniel Schreiner is fashioning an eclectic career marked by experimentation, cross-genre exploration, and impassioned social engagement. As a piano soloist and chamber musician, Daniel has performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, and multiple other venues across the United States, France, and Italy. Daniel is a core member of InfraSound and Aqueeressence Duo (with Yoshi Weinberg, flutist), performs regularly with Contemporaneous, and has also worked with the illustrious composer Betsy Jolas, Alan Pierson of Alarm Will Sound, and the JACK Quartet, to name a few. In 2017, Daniel received a Master of Music in piano performance from Mannes College of Music in New York City, studying under Dr. Thomas Sauer. A recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship from the Fondation des États-Unis, Daniel spent the 2019-20 academic year in Paris, France, studying at La Schola Cantorum with Billy Eidi. Having also majored in Studio Art while attending Williams College, Daniel has been developing a series of large-scale paintings inspired by organic structures and growth patterns from nature, which double as graphic scores that can be interpreted by one or more musicians. He lives with his husband in Brooklyn, NY.

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A musician, composer, and interdisciplinary artist of diverse interests, Daniel Schreiner is fashioning an eclectic career marked by experimentation, cross-genre exploration, and impassioned social engagement. As a piano soloist and chamber musician, Daniel has performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, National Sawdust, Rockwood Music Hall, and multiple other venues across the United States, France, and Italy. Daniel is a core member of InfraSound and Aqueeressence Duo (with Yoshi Weinberg, flutist), performs regularly with Contemporaneous, and has also had the opportunity to work with Betsy Jolas, Alan Pierson of Alarm Will Sound, the JACK Quartet, Amy Williams, Beth Morrison Projects, ChamberQUEER, Anika Kildegaard, Jeremy Martin, BlackBox Ensemble, Ensemble Calliopée, LIGAMENT, the Mannes American Composers Ensemble, and the Berkshire Symphony, to name a few.

Originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Daniel received his Bachelor’s degree from Williams College, where he won the 2012 Concerto Competition and received Highest Honors for his performance thesis-recital, which focused on the influence of Claude Debussy. He supplemented his undergraduate education at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria on a semester abroad, studying under Albert Sassmann. In 2017, Daniel received a Master of Music in piano performance from Mannes College of Music in New York City, studying under Dr. Thomas Sauer. A recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship from the Fondation des États-Unis, Daniel spent the 2019-20 academic year in Paris, France, studying at La Schola Cantorum with Billy Eidi and performing works by Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, Murail, and contemporary Paris-based composers.

Having also majored in Studio Art while attending Williams College, Daniel is interested in integrating two-dimensional visual art, sound art, and performance art with the musical realm. His experimental sound art installations have been featured in exhibitions in Sardinia, Italy; Berlin, Germany; and Yonkers, NY. Recently, Daniel has been developing a series of large-scale paintings inspired by organic structures and growth patterns from nature, which double as graphic scores that can be interpreted by one or more musicians. His new work this reef around me received its world premiere in June 2026 as part of ChamberQUEER’s annual festival. He lives with his husband in Brooklyn, NY.

artistic statement

Ever since my first lesson 25 years ago, the piano has been an indispensable, self-sustaining outlet of expression for me. As much as I love playing piano for myself, I’ve also always felt compelled to perform and share music with others. Trained conventionally as a concert pianist in the Western Classical tradition, I’ve since been unlearning restrictive, categorical definitions of music and leaning into my own eclectic, genre-bending, and interdisciplinary inclinations. The pandemic and the OneBeat Virtual Residency in 2021 accelerated this artistic evolution, leading me to pursue seriously sound design/production, improvisation, and composition inspired by graphic scores and field recording. Although I’m committed to continue broadening my creative horizons, I will always find solace, joy, and transcendence in the natural, resonant sound world of the acoustic piano.

My current creative work centers around the exploration of musical expansion, healing, and radical transcendence through the lens of queerness. In my experience as a queer person in a conformist, capitalistic society, I often feel compelled to subvert rigid categorizations devised to comfort the heteropatriarchy and invalidate the Other. For me, the inherently fluid, immersively powerful nature of sound itself has the potential to challenge those committed to the status quo, provide escape for those wearied by the status quo, and invite all people into spaces of queer agency and empowerment. I often revel in drawing connections between queerness and the organic properties of the natural world to highlight alternate, fundamental sources of queer power.

Photography by Marc Hall