Buck McDaniel is appointed director of music for the Church of Our Saviour and the Chapel of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, New York, New York.
An undergraduate student of David Enlow at Hunter College, McDaniel has given recitals across the United States including Heinz Memorial Chapel (Pittsburgh), St. John’s Church (Greenwich Village), Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (Cleveland), and the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle (Jackson, Mississippi). During his time as organist and director of music at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland, the choir was invited to perform at the 2018 Evangelism Matters Conference, a national convening of the Episcopal Church with Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry. Other notable performances with the St. Andrew Choir include Cleveland Public Theatre’s annual Underground Railroad commemoration, Station Hope.
McDaniel’s compositions have been performed internationally in venues ranging from the Belfast Pipeworks Festival (Ireland), Tanglewood Music Festival, and Lincoln Cathedral (U.K.). Earlier this season, his chamber work Memory Ground, commissioned by the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, was promoted in The New York Times, Time Out New York, and radio station WNYC. His Psalm Preludes have entered the repertoire of St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, and his collaboration with producer Jacob Kirkwood, Landscape Piece, debuted at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019.
For information: buckmcdaniel.com.
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