Daniel Meyer Click here for photographs Download Mr. Meyer's biography (MS Word document) Resident Conductor – Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Music Director – Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra As Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Meyer conducts over 50 performances this season, including pops, community, and education concerts. This season, his fourth with the PSO, he will also lead the orchestra on tour, collaborating with violinist Sarah Chang. Recently appointed Music Director of the Asheville Symphony, Mr. Meyer becomes only the fourth conductor to hold that position in the orchestra's history. Mr. Meyer has worked closely with previous Music Director Mariss Jansons, current Music Advisor Sir Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit on tour, and conducted subscription performances with violinist Pinchas Zukerman. With a talent for creative programming and a passion for connecting with audiences, he led the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Symphony with a Splash, an innovative series of concerts designed for professionals, as well as a Sunday matinee series for families called Popular Classics Committed to music education and young audiences, Mr. Meyer has developed a new series of Tiny Tots concerts based on popular children’s books to promote music and literacy. He has been featured on WQED-FM, KDKA-TV, in Pittsburgh Magazine, and has appeared as a guest lecturer at the Carnegie Mellon Business School. In 2004, Mr. Meyer led the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony in a special performance at the first ever National Performing Arts Convention and conducted the orchestra on its first international tour in fifteen years to Vienna, Prague, Leipzig and Budapest in June 2005. Mr. Meyer was awarded the 2002 Aspen Conducting Prize after his second season as a fellowship Academy Conductor at the Aspen Music Festival. His residency there culminated in a performance at the Blossom Festival, where he made his debut conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. In 2003 he served as Assistant Conductor to David Zinman and returned the following summer to lead a subscription performance. Highlighting his commitment to new music and contemporary composers, Mr. Meyer conducted several premieres at Aspen, was featured on the Adventures in Listening new music series, and also appeared on National Public Radio’s Performance Today. He has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, Utah, Forth Worth, San Antonio, Syracuse, Tallahassee, Mansfield, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and Wheeling symphonies. He has also led the Missouri Chamber Orchestra, Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, and orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Meyer was featured at the American Symphony Orchestra League’s 2003 National Conductor Preview with the Jacksonville Symphony, and will return this season to Tallahassee and make his debut with symphonies in Santa Barbara, Lansing, and Beijing, China. A native of Cleveland, Mr. Meyer is a graduate of Denison University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He composed and conducted works for ensembles at both schools, including a Stabat Mater for soprano, chorus and orchestra. As a doctoral student at Boston University, Mr. Meyer received the Orchestral Conducting Honors Award. He also studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Prior to his appointments in Pittsburgh and Asheville, Mr. Meyer was Assistant Conductor of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the KSO Youth Sinfonia. He has prepared orchestras for Robert Shaw, Lukas Foss, Joseph Silverstein, and James Conlon, and choruses for two recordings with the Cincinnati Pops under Erich Kunzel. As Assistant Conductor of Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, Mr. Meyer designed and conducted a series of ASCAP award-nominated concerts for inner-city schools. In addition to his work as a conductor and composer, Mr. Meyer has been active as a violinist, pianist, and vocalist.