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Fate and Destiny with guest conductor
Daniel Wiley
The 2024-2025 Anderson Symphony Orchestra season features our Artistic Director candidates as guest conductors.
● Each candidate will go through a rigorous week of interviews and meetings with musicians, ASO board and committee members, and staff.
● Each candidate has programmed a concert which he/she will rehearse and conduct.
● The ASO Musicians, ASO Board, and audience members will receive surveys following the candidate’s concert.
● Our new ASO Artistic Director will be chosen from these responses and offered the position.
Guest Conductor Daniel Wiley leads the ASO in the opening night of the season. Wiley, currently the Assistant Conductor with Cincinnati Symphony and Kansas City Symphony, leads the orchestra in composer Carlos Simon’s “Fate Now Conquers” and Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 4.” Pianist, Dr. Eldred Marshall joins Wiley and the ASO for Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466.”
Meet the artistic director candidate and guest conductor: Daniel Wiley
Daniel Wiley has quickly become a notable young conductor on the rise, having made guest appearances with the Cincinnati Ballet, Toledo Symphony, Orchestra Iowa & Quad City Ballet, Salisbury Symphony, Windsor (Ontario) Symphony Orchestra, Windsor Abridged Opera, London (Ontario) Symphonia, Boise Philharmonic, Abilene Philharmonic, Denali Chamber Orchestra, Meridian Symphony, Equilibrium Ensemble (Italy), and the University of North Florida Opera and is currently the Assistant Conductor for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra & Pops.
Prior to his tenure with the CSO, Daniel held numerous conducting posts, including Assistant Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony, Music Director of the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestras, Associate Conductor of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Windsor Symphony Youth Orchestras, Music Director of the Windsor Symphony Community Orchestra, Wind Ensemble Conductor at the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor, Education Conductor/Consultant for London Symphonia, Conductor for the Windsor Abridged Opera Company, Music Director of Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science Youth Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor for the Meridian Symphony Orchestra.
During the pandemic, Daniel was instrumental in expanding the Windsor Symphony’s educational footprint by creating a digital education concert series that includes 12 hours of interactive music curriculum for schools. This program has been lauded as “an exemplar of impassioned and outstanding pedagogy” (Dr. Ken Montgomery, Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Windsor) and recognized by the Ontario Provincial Parliament as an example of how an orchestra can change lives through music, even during a time of unprecedented uncertainty. To date, this program has served more than 200,000 students across the United States and Canada. In 2019, Wiley was the second prize recipient of both the Smoky Mountain International Conducting Institute and Competition and the Los Angeles International Conducting Competition.
Daniel has also spent time conducting new music ensembles, including for the Musicbed Music and Film Corporation based in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as participating in the Composing in the Wilderness program as part of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska. Through this program, Wiley has conducted numerous world premieres in Denali National Park. As a former public-school music teacher, Wiley has a unique passion for music education, and frequently donates his time as a guest clinician to support students and teachers in music programs across North America.