About
Born and raised in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Daniel McCarter (b. 1976) strives to write music that is both accessible to new listeners and engaging for experienced musicians. His eclectic style draws from his studies at Ithaca College School of Music, where he studied composition with Gregory Woodward and Dana Wilson and cello with Elizabeth Simkin, and his youthful experiences in a Philadelphia-based rock band. In addition to having works premiered at Columbia University and the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference at West Point, his music has been commissioned and performed by the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Bay Atlantic Symphony, and many New York-based chamber musicians. He directs the highly successful orchestral program at Suffern High School, where students perform both masterpieces and their own original compositions in concert. McCarter makes his home outside of New York City.