Daniel Wohl

Born and raised in Paris and currently residing in Los Angeles, DANIEL WOHL’s music blends electronics with acoustic instrumentation to often "surprising and provocative effect" (NPR). He has produced albums, orchestral and chamber works, film, television, and ballet scores, and has received critical praise as one of his generation’s "imaginative, skillful creators" (New York Times) making music that is "beautiful...original" (Pitchfork).

Recent performances of his music have been held at the Broad Museum, MASS MoCA, the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, The Barbican, Sadler's Wells, the Holland Festival, and MoMA PS1. His music has been performed/commissioned by a number of ensembles such as the San Francisco Symphony (Soundbox series), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (MusicNOW series), the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The London Contemporary Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the American Symphony Orchestra, eighth blackbird, So Percussion, the Calder Quartet, and the Mivos Quartet among others. He has also collaborated on albums/scores/performance projects with Jóhann Jóhannsson, Luca Guadagnino, Patty Jenkins, Morgan Neville, Dee Rees, David Lang, Julia Holter, Laurel Halo, Son Lux, and Holy Other.

Recent and upcoming projects include Drift - a collaborative project recorded in Iceland with acclaimed Icelandic composer Viktor Orri Árnason, commissioned by the iSing Silicon Valley Choir, and video by Máni Sigfússon - out on New Amsterdam in January 2022 in partnership with The Great Northern Festival, collaborations with the Cincinnati Symphony and chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound, as well as a new score for the 5th season of Search Party (HBO).

Daniel’s 2019 album Etat, released on Nonesuch and New Amsterdam, was deemed “a Pandora's box of unknown sounds and concussive juxtapositions” (NPR) and that the use of the album’s electro-acoustic elements were “a seamless emulsification of the two” (Van Magazine). His 2016 sophomore album Holographic - commissioned by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center - met similar acclaim, being noted as '“aggressive and gorgeous” (NPR) with an electroacoustic blend that was "expertly handled" (Pitchfork).

Daniel completed the scores for Berlinale selections Elixir (2015), Veronica (Netflix) (2017) as well as The Color of Time with (James Franco, Jessica Chastain and Mila Kunis). He is also writing the music for television shows Search Party (TBS), Robert Zimeckis' Project Blue Book, and They'll love me When i'm Dead a documentary by Morgan Neville for Netflix about Orson Welles. He's also contributed new arrangements of Vangelis' theme for the trailers to Blade Runner 2049.

A graduate of the doctoral program at the Yale School of Music, Daniel studied with David Lang, Martin Bresnick, Aaron Kernis and Ingram Marshall. He is a recipient of three ASCAP Young Composers awards, as well as grants from the Barlow Foundation, New Music USA, the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Jerome Foundation.