“Leading with gentle waving gestures, he coaxed a plush ensemble sound.”

Daniel Mahoney is an Irish-American conductor, tenor, and guitarist based in London and Boston.

He is the recently appointed Music Director of Wimbledon Choral, and is Music Director of the acclaimed Reading Bach Choir and Dorking Choral Society. In October 2024, he was appointed Assistant Chorus Director of the London Symphony Chorus. He is regarded for his engaging programming and has worked extensively in the UK and US.

In 2024-2025, he makes his City of London Sinfonia and Wimbledon Choral debut conducting the UK premiere of Cecilia McDowall’s Music of the Stars, as well as his Cadogan Hall debut conducting Haydn’s Nelson Mass. In 2023, he gave the UK premiere of Kile Smith’s The Arc in the Sky, an a cappella concert length work. As the assistant conductor of the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Daniel conducted at the 2019 Louis Lewandowski Festival. He was previously the Music Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women’s Chorus from 2019 to 2022. In January 2018, he made his Symphony Hall (UK) debut, preparing the University of Birmingham Voices for John Wilson and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s centenary celebration of Leonard Bernstein, and he led the Birmingham University Singers on their 2018 tour to Germany. He has also conducted Rundfunkchor Berlin in their International Conducting Masterclass. He previously held the Conducting Fellowship of Schola Cantorum of Oxford, one of the longest established and most widely known chamber choirs in the UK. In 2017, Daniel conducted the UK student premiere of Jonathan Dove’s The Enchanted Pig at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts.

In Boston, Daniel has prepared the One City Choir for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and appeared as guest conductor for The Boston Cecilia. In August 2016, he conducted in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang’s the public domain in New York City’s Mostly Mozart Festival. That same year, he formed The Janvs Project chamber orchestra through The Boston Conservatory’s Entrepreneurial Grant. He also served as assistant conductor of the Newburyport Choral Society and music director at the Congregational Church of Weston. Daniel was a two-time fellow at Yale University’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and conducting fellow at Chorus America’s national conference. From 2019-2020, Daniel was the Director of the Schola Cantorum at the College of the Holy Cross.

As a singer, Daniel regularly sings with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Symphony Chorus. He has performed at the BBC Proms with Sir Simon Rattle and Edward Gardner as a member of the CBSO Chorus. He has sung with Boston’s Cantata Singers, Renaissance Men, and Canto Armonico. He has performed at Trinity Wall Street’s Compline by Candlelight and Bach at One series in New York. He is in demand as a deputy lay clerk at cathedrals and churches around London and throughout Boston.

Daniel holds multiple graduate degrees in conducting. He was a student of Simon Halsey CBE and Simon Carrington at the University of Birmingham, and George Case at the Boston Conservatory. He holds a Bachelor of Music in music education from Ithaca College, where he studied classical guitar with Pablo Cohen and jazz guitar with Steve Brown and Ulf Bandgren.