Daniel Schwalbach

New York City-based tenor and bass trombonist Daniel Schwalbach enjoys a varied career of orchestral playing and chamber music and is frequently engaged throughout the country. An alumnus of the Curtis Institute of Music, Mr. Schwalbach studied under Nitzan Haroz and Matthew Vaughn on tenor trombone and Blair Bollinger on bass trombone.  Other influential teachers include Samuel Schlosser of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Craig Knox of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Immediately following his studies at Curtis, Mr. Schwalbach joined the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra as Co-Principal Trombone for their 2016-2017 season. Mr. Schwalbach has performed with major ensembles across the united states including the New York City Ballet Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Princeton Symphony, New World Symphony and Symphony in C. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Schwalbach is a founding member of the Rendezvous Brass Quintet and The Brass Project. He has performed in esteemed concert halls and prestigious residencies with these ensembles, including the Aspen Music Festival (2015 Brass Quintet Fellowship Program, 2018 American Brass Quintet Seminar at Aspen) and Music From Angel Fire (2016), where he collaborated with Ida Kavafian, Gregory Zuber, and Peter Lloyd for a staged performance of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat. The Brass Project’s entrepreneurial activities also include the recent release of their first album, Cityscaping, a collection of commissions that features works by Pulitzer and Rome Prize-winning composers. Mr. Schwalbach was born and raised in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. He resides in Manhattan with his wife, Marié, a violinist in the New York Philharmonic.