DANIEL BUBECK (countertenor) made his professional debut to critical acclaim singing as the First Countertenor in the premiere of John Adams' El Niño, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Kent Nagano at the Th éâtre Musical de Paris- Châtelet. He has since then performed this role in productions with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Radio Filharmonisch Holland, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin, Tokyo Symphony, Malmø Opera in Sweden, and at the Adelaide Festival in Australia and recorded it for Nonesuch. He has worked under such renowned conductors as Esa Peka Salonen, Robert Spano, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Jeffrey Thomas, Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan, Sian Edwards, Bruno Weil and Paul Hillier.

Mr. Bubeck is a noted specialist in music of the 17th and 18th centuries. He made his debut with the American Bach Soloists in 2005 in Handel's Messiah. He sang the title role in Handel's Solomon at the 2004 Bloomington Early Music Festival and has been a featured soloist with groups such as Theater of Voices, Catacoustic Consort, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Michigan Bach Collegium and Brandywine Baroque. Mr. Bubeck is equally at home performing contemporary music. After the success of El Niño Mr. Bubeck was again invited by the Tokyo Symphony to sing in Hans Werner Henze's Das verratene Meer. Later that year he sang in the American premiere of Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Concerto Köln, music by David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon. In April 2006 he sang the title role in scenes from Philip Glass' Akhnaten in a concert of minimalist music with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by John Adams. Forthcoming engagements include Handel's Israel in Egypt at the Carmel Bach Festival further performances of John Adams' El Niño with the Boston Symphony and Gerald Barry's The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Daniel Bubeck has recorded The Masses of William Byrd with the Indiana Pro Arte, directed by Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi) and John Adams' El Niño conducted by Kent Nagano (Nonesuch). A DVD recording of the World Premiere in Paris was released by Art Haus Musik. He is a native of Wilmington Delaware and holds degrees from Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory and the University of Delaware. He has also studied at the  Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, Salzburg Mozarteum, and Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute. In competition, Mr. Bubeck was a regional finalist in the 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions as well as a winner of in the 2004 Sullivan Foundation Career Grant Competition.