Over the course of the year, I will be working with Karen Slack, Joel Ivany, Ian Cusson, and more mentors on new projects, what making opera entails today, and how we drive the art-form forward.

Bloomington’s New Voices Opera will feature my scene The Seduction of Honorius on their Fall Exhibition of new operatic works The X.
The show will be streamed Tuesday, 12/8 at 7pm EST.
RSVP HERE

I am excited to be joining a wonderful roster of artists of diverse backgrounds and practice to be commissioned by National Sawdust as part of their inaugural New Works Commission for their Digital Discovery Festival. Over the next months I will be participating in master classes and collaboration sessions with the mentor artists and wonderful performers from the JACK Quartet and the National Sawdust ensemble. The new works for JACK will be premiered online Friday Dec 11th at 5pm here.

Daniel and his collaborative team, Mina Salehpour and Yashar Saghai, have been awarded a major award from OPERA America to support their new monodrama The Veil. OPERA America’s new IDEA Opera Grants (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) support works by under-represented voices in American opera.
FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE

As an inaugural Emergence Fellow, I be will collaborating this year with Boston’s Guerilla Opera on a new operatic work with Berlin-based director and librettist Mina Salehpour. The new work, called “The Angle of Darkness (زاویه ی ظلی), will reflect on an anecdote from an anonymous Persian woman part of prominent women’s protest movement in Iran.
Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 7:30pm
Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University
415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453

This season I will be collaborating with the Eurasia Festival on concerts in:
Chicago, New York City and Washington D.C., as one of four emerging artists.

Performed by Ayano Ninomiya 

Premiered by Rebekah Heller, Joshua Rubin, and Lizzie Burns at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, supported by an award from the Cornell Council for the Arts 2018 Biennial.