David Daniels, Music Director

David Daniels has been conductor of the Warren Symphony since its beginnings. He is Professor Emeritus at Oakland University, and the author of Orchestral Music, a standard reference book for orchestra professionals around the world, now in its 4th edition.

His opera performances were named "Best Opera of the Year" five times by the Boston Globe. He has also guest-conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, Michigan Opera Theatre, Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, Meadow Brook Festival Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfonia de Maracaibo, Venezuela.

What the Press has to say

"The orchestra played full out for Daniels, who had complete command over the difficulties of the work." -- Boston Globe

"This theatrical instinct is one that all the musicology in the world can't teach you. You are either born with it or you aren't, and Daniels was." -- The Detroit News

"...before all else a sensitive man who makes the music his, and the orchestra his principal ally. -- Maracaibo Panorama

"...a natural conductor of opera, with such clear understanding of the propulsiveness of Verdi's music quite simply astonishing." - Boston Bay Windows

"...a musical grand slam." -- The Oakland Press

"Daniels and the orchestra...performed splendidly." -- The Detroit Free Press