Daniel Wiley has quickly become a notable young conductor on the rise, having made appearances with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet, Kansas City Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Toledo Symphony, Orchestra Iowa & Quad City Ballet, Salisbury Symphony, Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Windsor Abridged Opera, London Symphonia, Boise Philharmonic, Abilene Philharmonic, Denali Chamber Orchestra, Meridian Symphony, Equilibrium Ensemble and the University of North Florida Opera.
Wiley currently holds posts as assistant conductor with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Kansas City Symphony, and he is the music director of the Salisbury Symphony in North Carolina.
During the pandemic, Wiley was instrumental in expanding the Windsor Symphony’s educational footprint by creating a digital education concert series that includes 12 hours of interactive music curriculum for schools. In 2019, Wiley was a prize recipient of both the Smoky Mountain International Conducting Institute and Competition and the Los Angeles International Conducting Competition. Wiley has also spent time conducting new music ensembles, including for the Musicbed Music and Film Corporation based in Fort Worth, Texas. He has also participated in the Composing in the Wilderness program as part of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska.
As a former public school music teacher, Wiley has a unique passion for music education and frequently donates his time as a guest clinician to support students and teachers in music programs across North America.