Chair, Contemporary Performance Program Mr. Grabois is a faculty member in the College for the following department(s) and division(s): Chamber Music & Ensembles — Brass (College) Chamber Music & Ensembles — Claremont Ensemble / TACTUS (College) Contemporary Performance — Horn (College) E-mail  dgrabois@msmnyc.edu

Daniel Grabois is the chairman of the Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance department, where he works intimately with a faculty composed of many of New York’s leading contemporary music performers and a student body comprised of tomorrow’s greatest performers. A member of the Meridian Arts Ensemble, a new-music brass and percussion ensemble that performs around the world and has released nine critically acclaimed CD’s, he has also played with almost all of the ensembles in New York City, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, and American Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of Sequitur, a contemporary music ensemble, with whom he recorded a new horn concerto written for him by David Rakowski, and premiered that piece at Lincoln Center. Grabois is also a member of the chamber music faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and teaches horn at The Hartt School. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Yale (summa cum laude) and his Master’s from the Manhattan School of Music. He lives in Queens with his wife and young son, Charlie.

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