Daniel Hege

During his long climb up the American orchestral ladder, Daniel Hege has guest conducted an unusually wide variety of orchestras. As a youngster, Hege decided on a musical career after he discovered Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. Beginning in 1990, Hege held a series of increasingly important conducting posts, from smaller urban and youth orchestras up to resident conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and music director of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Since 2010, he has been music director of the Wichita Symphony and of the Binghamton Philharmonic since 2018. He has also guest conducted more than 70 orchestras including the Detroit Symphony and the Auckland Philharmonia. In 1997, he conducted the Encore Chamber Orchestra on violinist Rachel Barton Pine's album Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries, reissued in 2022 as Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries.