Daniel Mahoney is an Irish-American conductor, tenor, and guitarist based in London and Boston. He is Assistant Chorus Director of the London Symphony Chorus and Music Director of Wimbledon Choral, Reading Bach Choir, and Dorking Choral Society. He is regarded for his creative and engaging programming.

Daniel has worked extensively in the UK and US. In 2025, he made his Cadogan Hall debut conducting Wimbledon Choral and City of London Sinfonia in Haydn’s Nelson Mass alongside works by Grace Williams and Dobrinka Tabakova. This past summer, he conducted Mozart’s Requiem with Dorking Choral Society at the Sibiu International Theater Festival and the Organ Summer Nights Festival at the Black Church in Brașov, Romania. In partnership with Concerts in Caversham, he conducted Reading Bach Choir in Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands with Bach’s Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4.

In November 2024, Daniel made his Wimbledon Choral and City of London Sinfonia debut conducting the orchestral London premiere of Cecilia McDowall’s Music of the Stars. In 2023, he gave the UK premiere of Kile Smith’s a cappella concert length work The Arc in the Sky with Reading Bach Choir. As the assistant conductor of the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Daniel conducted at the 2019 Louis Lewandowski Festival in Berlin. He was previously the Music Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women’s Chorus from 2019 to 2022. He guest conducted the Birmingham University Singers on their 2018 tour to Germany, presenting concerts in Berlin and Leipzig. He has also conducted Rundfunkchor Berlin in their International Masterclass for Choral Conducting. He held the Conducting Fellowship of Schola Cantorum of Oxford, one of the longest established and most widely known chamber choirs in the UK. In 2017, Daniel conducted the UK student premiere of Jonathan Dove’s The Enchanted Pig at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts.

Daniel has prepared choruses for the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Antonio Pappano and Gianandrea Noseda, as well as Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. He made his Symphony Hall (UK) debut, preparing the University of Birmingham Voices for John Wilson and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s centenary celebration of Leonard Bernstein. He has prepared choruses for Neil Ferris and Jonathan Wilcocks as part of the Leith Hill Music Festival.

In Boston, Daniel has prepared the One City Choir for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and appeared as guest conductor for The Boston Cecilia. In August 2016, he conducted in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s the public domain in New York City’s Mostly Mozart Festival. That same year, he formed The Janvs Project chamber orchestra through The Boston Conservatory’s Entrepreneurial Grant. He also served as assistant conductor of the Newburyport Choral Society and music director at the Congregational Church of Weston. Daniel was a two-time fellow at Yale University’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and conducting fellow at Chorus America’s national conference. From 2019-2020, Daniel was the Director of the Schola Cantorum at the College of the Holy Cross.

Upcoming season highlights include Finzi’s Requiem da Camera, Dvorak’s Requiem, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, McDowall’s Da Vinci Requiem, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, and the world premiere of Critical Mass by Tarik O’Regan, featuring his Agnus Dei from the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

As a singer, Daniel regularly sang with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Symphony Chorus. He has performed at the BBC Proms with Sir Simon Rattle and Edward Gardner as a member of the CBSO Chorus. He has sung with Boston’s Cantata Singers, Renaissance Men, and Canto Armonico. He has performed at Trinity Wall Street’s Compline by Candlelight and Bach at One series in New York. He continues to sing as a deputy lay clerk at cathedrals and churches around London and throughout Boston. Daniel holds multiple graduate degrees in conducting. He was a student of Simon Halsey CBE and Simon Carrington at the University of Birmingham, and George Case at the Boston Conservatory. He holds a Bachelor of Music in music education from Ithaca College, where he studied classical guitar with Pablo Cohen and jazz guitar with Steve Brown and Ulf Bandgren.