Daniel Suk, artistic director & conductor

DANIEL SUK, Artistic Director & Conductor

Daniel Suk has enjoyed an international career as an operatic tenor and a conductor worldwide for over 30 years. Daniel is a true citizen of the world with a strong classical music and a multicultural background. With contemporary taste, Daniel works with creative vision and passion and strives for the creation of the next generation of performing art.

Daniel was born into a musical family where his mother was a pianist, and his father was an opera singer. Daniel learned piano very early, but his passion changed to opera singing after discovering his voice in his late teens. 1990 Daniel was accepted to Lucio Campiani, National Music Conservatory of Mantova, Italy. Since his debut in 1995 at Opera House, Mantova, Italy, Daniel has performed in many prestigious opera houses in Europe, Asia, and America. Among them are Opera Verona, Italy; Opera Bologna, Italy; Los Angeles Opera; La Fenice, Venice, Italy; Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royce Hall; Hong Kong Cultural Center; and Opera Nice, France.

As a Music Director and Conductor, Daniel served many prestigious organizations. Daniel served as conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Mantova, Italy, from 1996 to 1999, conducting Baroque and Classical Era Masterworks and lost works. He served as Artistic Director and Conductor for L'Opera Laboratorio of Verona, Italy, from 1998 to 2000, where he produced and conducted more than 40 concerts and operas, including the world premiere of The Opera L'Lisola Al Cina by G. Gazzaniga and the Verona Summer Opera Festivals. From 2008 to 2011, Daniel served as a guest conductor and assistant conductor for UCLA Symphony and UCLA Chorale. After his return to Los Angeles, Daniel conducted at every major concert venue in Southern California and has performed at more than 100 concert venues throughout the U.S.

Since 2011, Daniel has served as an artistic director and conductor for the all-professional Dream Orchestra. Daniel has led The Dream Orchestra to become a premier performing art organization in Southern California with creative and versatile programs.

Among the notable productions and conducting include Symphonic and concerto seasonal programs, presenting world-top instrumentalists such as violinist Inmo Yang, YeEun Choi, and pianist Hae-Kyung Suh, Yeol-Eum Son, and Fabio Bidini, Ray Ushikubo and Aubrey Oliverson. The Los Angeles International Choral Festival.  Dream Concerts throughout Los Angeles and Orange County. Full ballet productions and contemporary dance Gala, "Petra Conti and Friends," presenting the world's top dancers and choreographers. Daniel gave the ballet "Giselle" in Pasadena with the Pasadena Civic Ballet Company during the pandemic—the "Korea Fantasy" at Walt Disney Concert Hall with more than 500 performers.

Daniel is the conductor of the professional chorus, "Opera Chorus of Los Angeles." Compromised with top opera singers from Los Angeles and Orange County. With joined forces, notable productions are "Rossini Stabat Mater," "Mozart Requiem," "Verdi Requiem," and the Annual Messiah and summer choral concert at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles, Los Angeles.

The Annual Opera Gala presents the world's top opera singers, including Julie Adams, Nicolas Brownlee, Joshua Guerrero, Angel Blue, Vladimir Chernov, Vladimir Dmitruk, Joshua Guerrero, Konu Kim, Haesang Park, Seok Jong Baek, and many upcoming superstars of the opera world.

For the educational program, the annual "Young Stars of Tomorrow" featured more than 30 next generations of young musicians from Colburn School of Music, OCSA, LACHSA, and other high schools around L.A. and O. C. for the chance to perform with Dream Orchestra as a soloist.

Daniel is the artistic director of the Pacific Music Festival at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where he brings top musical and performance institutions and performing artists worldwide and showcases amazing concert series at the WDCH as the summer festival program. 

Daniel also dedicates his musical talents to the youth music program, the "Young Artists Orchestra of Los Angeles." With over 100 members, YAOLA gives annual concerts and charity events and participates in the Youth Orchestra Festival, such as the West Coast Youth Orchestra Festival at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Carnegie Hall Invitation. 

A passionate advocate for community outreach and education, Daniel is also known for his master classes, Entrepreneurship in Performing Art, and for delivering lecture recitals. Daniel's notable lecture includes the Dream Philharmonic Lecture Series, and guest lecturer for Yale University, UCLA, Cal Art, and Gonzaga University. In 2021, Daniel was nominated as the inaugural artistic director of the Heart of Los Angeles's Inter-generational Orchestra, where he successfully developed the program with over 100 members. Today, the program has expanded to include an inter-generational music program.  

Today, with his passionate artistic vision, Daniel is cultivating future generations of audiences and educating classical music communities. He gives lecture series to various charities and organizations and raises scholarship funds for future musicians. Daniel has given performance opportunities to young and world-class musicians from all over the world. L.A. Opera Young artists, Columbia Artists Management, IMG Artists, various youth orchestra players from L.A. and Orange County, Colburn School of Music, Music students from top music institutions in America, and notable international competition winners.