[1][2][3] His education includes a preparatory department diploma from the Eastman School of Music, an AB degree from Oberlin College, an MA (musicology) from Boston University, and an MFA (organ) and a PhD (orchestral literature and conducting) from the University of Iowa.
Daniels was Music Director of the Warren Symphony Orchestra (Michigan) from its inception in 1974 until his retirement in 2010.
[4] He was Professor Emeritus at Oakland University, where he taught for 28 years, six of them as chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance.
[citation needed] Other guest conducting includes the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, Michigan Opera Theatre, Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, Meadow Brook Festival Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfonia de Maracaibo, Venezuela.
[6][7] A second book, with coauthor John Yaffé, is Arias, Ensembles, & Choruses: An Excerpt-Finder for Orchestras (2012).