DANIEL SANTIAGO CASTELLANOS
AUDIENCE COORDINATOR (PAST)
Daniel Santiago Castellanos is a composer, tenor, and pianist based in New York City. His composition for mezzo-soprano and piano, Death is nothing at all, won first prize at the 2019 NYC songSLAM competition. Ensembles that have performed his music include the Semiosis Quartet, The Orchestra Now (TŌN), Da Capo Ensemble, and The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys. He graduated from Bard Conservatory of Music in 2018, and is now attending Mannes School of Music to receive a MM in Composition in 2023.
As a tenor, Castellanos makes his living as a professional choral singer. He started out singing as a boy chorister at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in 2004, and since then, has sung with several different ensembles, including The Choir at the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, with C4 Ensemble, and most recently, The Salvatones. He has performed as a soloist through other freelance work.
Castellanos’ abilities as a pianist have also come in handy. Performing several of his own compositions in concert, Castellanos has also worked as a professional collaborative pianist. He has worked as both a rehearsal and orchestral pianist for Bard Opera Workshop, and as a collaborative pianist with mezzo-soprano Chloë Schaaf, cellist Raman Ramakrishnan, and emerging clarinetist Yelin Wang. Aside from all the performing, he takes pride in teaching lessons to beginner students at Premier Music Studio in Pelham, NY.
When he isn’t making music as a self-labeled “triple threat,” he enjoys cooking homemade meals, spending time with his loved ones, playing chess/video games, achieving horizontality while binging any number of streamable shows, and finding free parking in his neighborhood.
For more information visit daniel-castellanos.com.
