Daniel Chynsky is a composer and guitarist based in New York City.  Active in a wide variety of musical genres, Daniel creates and performs music for concerts as well as film, television, and other media. In January 2018, his string quartet was chosen to be performed at the Global Peace and Music Foundation’s PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics Celebration Concert.  Daniel has also performed his own music at venues such as the The Knitting Factory, Cakeshop, and Shapeshifter Lab as well as at colleges including Columbia University, Wesleyan, Brooklyn College, Bard, Sarah Lawrence, and Ohio State University. 

Daniel holds an M.Mus. in composition from Brooklyn College where he studied with Polina Nazaykinskaya and Dalit Warshaw and a B.Mus. in classical guitar performance under Lars Frandsen. Daniel has also studied composition with Conrad Cummings at the Juilliard School, jazz with Anders Nilsson, and oud and Arabic music theory with Zafer Tawil. 

As a member of the Brooklyn Composers’ Collective, Daniel’s string quartet, Hijaz,was featured on the their first album in collaboration with the Xanthoria String Quartet released on November 17, 2019.  In May 2019, Daniel’s piece,  Telephone, was performed by guitarists George England and Mateo Vintimilla at the Brooklyn Composers’ Collective’s new guitar music concert held at the Brooklyn Guitar School.  In June, an arrangement of this piece for solo guitar was performed by George England at the Greenwich House School of Music’s Faculty Recital series. 

Daniel currently composes music for film and television. He has composed and performed music for feature films, shorts, video presentations, and commercials including the German 2008 narrative feature, Ivan Borisoviç. His musical influences are far reaching. The melodic modes and rhythms of Arabic music have strongly influenced his work along with the sounds of jazz, baroque music, rock, soul, and other genres. Daniel enjoys many different kinds of music and values exchange between musicians and artists of different backgrounds and between different musical forms.