A winner of the 2021 Young Concert Artists International auditions, Daniel McGrew is an active performer of a broad range of repertoires spanning opera, musical theatre, early, and new music.

Most recently, Daniel has been seen at the Marlboro Music Festival in performances of Beethoven and Schumann, as a guest artist at Songfest for the world premiere of John Harbison’s Poems for Robin and as a guest at the Tanglewood Music Center for the American-premiere of George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s Lessons in Love and Violence, under the baton of the composer. His upcoming performances include debuts at The Kennedy Center and New York’s Merkin Hall as a recent winner of the 2021 Young Concert Artist Auditions in addition to appearances with the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Pro Musica Columbus and Mirror Visions Ensemble.

Recent operatic appearances include Harlekin in Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, and the title roles in Bernstein’s Candide and Charpentier’s La descente d'Orphée aux enfers, each at the University of Michigan and under the direction of Matthew Ozawa. As part of the Tanglewood Music Center’s celebration of the Bernstein centennial, Daniel performed François in A Quiet Place, directed by Peter Kazaras. Additional highlights include title roles in Britten’s Albert Herring and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Contino Belfiore in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, Ecclitico in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna, and Toquemada in Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole, all at the Oberlin Conservatory. He recently joined Opera Colorado for the recording of Gerald Cohen and Deborah Brevoort’s Steal a Pencil for Me, which the company premiered in 2018.

Also at Tanglewood, Daniel received mentorship from Dawn Upshaw, Sanford Sylvan and Stephanie Blythe, culminating in performances of Britten’s Les illuminations, sacred works of Heirich Schütz, Schubert ensembles with Emmanuel Ax, and, for the Festival of Contemporary Music, Kurtág’s Three Ancient Inscriptions. On his performance of those songs, the Boston Globe lauded Daniel’s “viciously beautiful timbre;” Classical Scene praised his “intense concentration,… clarity, and ferocity.” Additional performances of new music include the role of Jesus in the premier of Robert Kyr’s oratorio, Transfiguration, with Yale Camerata, Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us, with Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415, and a concert on the NYFOS Next series exploring the music of James Primosch. He is currently collaborating with Guggenheim Fellow, Matthew Ricketts on a new cycle written for him and pianist Nathanial LaNasa.

An early music specialist, Daniel has performed Bach with numerous conductors including Matthew Halls, John Harbison, David Hill, Kenneth Slowik, and Masaaki Suzuki, including a one-on-a-part B Minor Mass at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute. He has made multiple appearances with Gamut Bach Ensemble at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Bach Vespers series at Holy Trinity Lutheran. Daniel joined Elm City Consort for Douce Dame: Woman and the Ars Nova, a program exploring women’s voices in the 14th century through the music of Guillaume de Machaut and Phillipe de Vitry. As a soloist with Yale’s Schola Cantorum, he appeared in Bach’s Mass in A Major at Alice Tully Hall, Arvo Pärt’s Passio in performances throughout Russia and the Baltic region, Bach’s Magnificat throughout India, and the Monteverdi Vespers 1610 and Händel’s Occasional Oratorio in New York and New Haven. He twice attended the Bach Institute at Emmanuel Music in Boston.