Texas BachChoir

Dr. Daniel Long, Artistic Director

Dr. Daniel Long, Artistic Director of the Texas Bach Choir and Collegium, has devoted much of his professional life to the study, interpretation, historically informed performances and promotion of early music. As a conductor, vocal soloist and chorister, early historical keyboardist, and musicologist, his studies, lectures and performances have taken him to numerous academic and concert halls throughout Europe, Canada and USA .

Daniel has studied with noted conductors John Canarina, Margaret Hillis, Fiora Contino, Walter Ducloux, Leonard Bernstein and Helmuth Rilling. He has collaborated in performances with some of the leading early music interpreters: Helmuth Rilling, John Eliot Gardiner, Harry Christophers and Nicholas McGegan. Daniel has also studied early historical keyboard playing with international recording artists Marie-Claire Alain, Martin Hasselbeck and Kenneth Gilbert.

As a musicologist, Daniel has lectured at several early music festivals, written articles for early music journals, reviewed the latest early music CDs released to the public on amazon.com and writing a book on the musical and spiritual symbolism found in Handel's Messiah. He has appeared seasonally as a guest on "Musica Antiqua", a radio show devoted to early music on KPAC (Wednesdays, 9:00PM on 88.3 FM) hosted by Gerald Self. Besides European early music, Daniel has become one of this country's leading pioneers in the rediscovery of American early music from the Thirteen Colonies, Mexican colonial music of Nueva Espana, and transcription of Shaker music. He has received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in musicology from the University of South Africa in January 2003 on the subject of baseball music.

Daniel is currently an Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at St. Mary's University ( San Antonio ) and Music Director at Christ Lutheran Church of Alamo Heights. He taught last year in London through the auspices of the Federation of International Education and Royal College of Music. He is a Founding Member of Early Music America and a Contributor to the Research Library at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown , NY , a member of the Music and Poetry Committee of SABR (Society of American Baseball Research) and "Hungry for Music" a national non-profit organization that raises money to purchase musical instruments for underprivileged children.