Daniel Rudin is a composer, arranger, orchestrator, and music director based in New York.

As a music director, Daniel has rehearsed and performed in New York and LA at the New York City Center, Symphony Space, 54 Below, and the Wallis Center. He served as Assistant Music Director to Jeanine Tesori for the 2016 “Off-Center Jamboree” at the NY City Center (dir. Michael Mayer), rehearsing with Sutton Foster, Jonathan Groff, Ayodele Casel, and many others. In July 2018, he music directed and provided arrangements for "The Songs of Julian Hornik" at 54 Below, rehearsing and performing with Solea Pfeiffer, Gideon Glick, and The Bandits on the Run. In February 2018, he music directed the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop of Julian Hornik’s new musical Tenn, directed by Steven Schwartz. At Yale, he has music directed several musicals, including the collegiate premier of Fun Home, She Loves Me, and Tenn. In addition, he has served as the music director of the Berkeley College Orchestra for three years, conducting weekly rehearsals and performances of works such as Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Rimsky-Korsakov: Cappriccio Espagnol, and many others. 

Daniel’s original music has been heard in theater productions, films, and concerts. His work Songs of the Nothing, an evening-length piece inspired by a variety of ancient creation myths, features original compositions and orchestrations in styles ranging from latin jazz, to rock, to contemporary classical. He has also composed incidental music for two plays and three musicals at Yale. In 2016, he wrote and produced an original score for the Yale Class Day Film, viewed by 15,000+ people at that year's graduation ceremony. 

Daniel has done orchestrations and arrangements for three original musicals at Yale. Additionally, his arrangements for his a cappella group The Duke’s Men of Yale are featured on its latest award-winning album Golden Hour. Daniel has also provided music preparation services such as copying and transcribing for a variety of projects, including the City Center production of Songs for a New World (working directly with Jason Robert Brown), Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang’s new musical Soft Power, and Jeanine Tesori’s new opera Blue, to be performed at Glimmer Glass in 2019.

Daniel’s teachers have included Jeanine Tesori, Scott Frankel, Michael Gilbertson, Christopher Theofanidis, Christian Hebel, Kathryn Alexander, and Ira Taxin. He is currently finishing his studies in music at Yale, with a focus in composition and music theory. He graduated in 2015 from the Juilliard Pre-College Division, studying composition.