Daniel Strange has performed on a variety of the world’s biggest stages from Carnegie Hall to NBC’s The Today Show as well as with critically acclaimed artists representing multiple genres including Jodi Benson, Susan Egan, Michael Feinstein, Ann Hampton Calloway, Jacob Collier, Masego, Robert Glasper, Madison Cunningham, Mandy Gonzalez, folk legend Noel Paul Stookey, Tony award nominees Joshua Henry and Norm Lewis, and Tony award winners Lindsay Mendez and Sutton Foster. He has played in orchestra pits for the national touring companies of Wicked, Jersey Boys, Pippin, Les Miserables, West Side Story, Dreamgirls, Young Frankenstein, Legally Blonde, and A Chorus Line. As a composer, Daniel has written, arranged and orchestrated for numerous musical settings including jazz, pop, choral, and orchestral ensembles from all over the country.

Daniel is the assistant professor of contemporary keyboard as well as the program director of the M.A.D.E. (musicianship, artistry development and entrepreneurship) degree at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. He directs the Music Media and Industry department's top ensemble, the American Music Ensemble, which received the 2022 (and 2015) DownBeat Magazine award for outstanding performance by a collegiate blues/pop/rock ensemble. He has presented clinics on original composition, solo jazz piano and spoken on numerous panels at many national music conferences including he Association of Popular Music Education Conference, the Jazz Education Network Conference and the Intersection of Jazz and Classical Music Piano Festival and Competition. In the spring of 2014, Daniel was named a quarter finalist for the 2nd annual Grammy Music Educator Award.

Daniel is the director of the award-winning Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ Community Arts Program’s All-Star Jazz Ensemble, a three-time finalist in Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Competition and Festival. Under his leadership, the All-Star Jazz Ensemble has released an album, With A Swing! as well as opened for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Count Basie Orchestra, Grammy winning vocalist Catherine Russell and famed Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen. Daniel can be heard on his album Life As I Hear It that features his original compositions and an all-star of lineup of musicians as well as on multiple albums including the Grammy nominated track "All My Tomorrows" from Jeremy Fox's With Love. He resides in Miami with his wife, violinist Ashley Liberty, along with their son and daughter, Harrison and Summer.