Daniel Grabois is Associate Professor of Horn at the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he performs in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and serves as the Curator of SoundWaves, a series he created that combines science lectures with music performances. The former Chair of Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, Grabois now serves as Director of the Electro-Acoustic Research Space (EARS), a facility which he founded with funding from a UW2020 large-equipment grant. He is also the hornist in the Meridian Arts Ensemble, a New York City based sextet of brass and percussion, now in its 30th season. With Meridian, he has performed over 70 world premieres, released 12 CDs, received two ASCAP/CMA Adventuresome Programming Awards and toured worldwide, in addition to recording or performing with rock legends Duran Duran and Natalie Merchant and performing the music of Frank Zappa for the composer himself. Grabois has also created numerous arrangements for Meridian.
A freelance musician from 1989 to 2011, Grabois performed with most of the classical music ensembles in New York City, including the Metropolitan Opera, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York City Opera, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra. He appeared on numerous recordings of classical music, rock and jazz, and he played in Broadway pits (some 36 shows, in thousands of performances).
Grabois released his first solo album in 2016, Air Names, for electronic horn, for which he wrote all the music. His compositions, including three etude books and numerous chamber and solo works, are published by Brass Arts Unlimited.
In addition to his work as a horn player, composer, arranger and electronic musician, Grabois is also an avid practitioner of taekwondo.
Daniel Grabois is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
