Buck
McDaniel

Composer, Conductor
Buck McDaniel
Born in Columbia, Mississippi in 1994, Buck McDaniel is a composer based in New York City. His works have been performed both internationally in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Ireland and nationally in Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, Washington (DC), Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Seattle.
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Buck McDaniel

McDaniel's arrangement of Nico Muhly’s Bright Mass with Canons premiered at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute under Ann Jones, and his work Detroit Cycles premiered as part of the nationally syndicated radio program The Moth with violinist Natalie Frakes. His work has been workshopped by ensembles including the JACK Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, and the Genkin Philharmonic. Following Todd Wilson’s premiere of his work Three Voices at the 2014 Belfast Pipeworks Festival, organist James McVinnie toured the work in the United Kingdom with performances at both Lincoln Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral. An active and willing collaborator, McDaniel has worked with ensembles Zeitgeist and the No Exit New Music Ensemble on multiple projects. He has composed several works for No Exit including Light Down, an extended take on an early American murder ballad, and Zeitgeist who subsequently toured his work Scherzo in Four Movements throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio. In his artistic partnership with producer Jacob Kirkwood, he has created multiple concert and studio works, including the sound installation Landscape Piece which debuted at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019. As an arranger, he has worked on live shows and studio recordings with artists ranging from Ben Folds, Mourning [A] BLKstar, times10, and CASH.FORGOLD. In 2019, he conducted his string arrangements in a live concert with ITEM at the historic Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio.

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