DANIEL SUK, Artistic Director  & Conductor

​Daniel Suk has enjoyed an international career as an operatic tenor and a conductor worldwide for over 25 years. Daniel is a true citizen of the world with a strong classical music and a multicultural background. With contemporary taste, Daniel works with creative vision and passion and strives for the creation of the next generation of performing art.

Daniel was born into a musical family where his mother was a pianist, and his father was an opera singer. Daniel learned piano very early, but his passion changed to opera singing after discovering his voice in his late teens. 1990 Daniel was accepted to Lucio Campiani, National Music Conservatory of Mantova, Italy. Since his debut in 1995 at Opera House, Mantova, Italy, Daniel has performed in many prestigious opera houses in Europe, Asia, and America. Among them are Opera Verona, Italy; Opera Bologna, Italy; Los Angeles Opera; La Fenice, Venice, Italy; Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royce Hall; Hong Kong Cultural Center; and Opera Nice, France.

As a Music Director and Conductor, Daniel served many prestigious organizations. Daniel served as conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Mantova, Italy, from 1996 to 1999, conducting Baroque and Classical Era Masterworks and lost works. He served as Artistic Director and Conductor for L'Opera Laboratorio of Verona, Italy, from 1998 to 2000, where he produced and conducted more than 40 concerts and operas, including the world premiere of The Opera L'Lisola Al Cina by G. Gazzaniga and the Verona Summer Opera Festivals. From 2008 to 2011, Daniel served as a guest conductor and assistant conductor for UCLA Symphony and UCLA Chorale. After his return to Los Angeles, Daniel conducted at every major concert venue in Southern California and has performed at more than 100 concert venues throughout the U.S.

Since 2011, Daniel has served as an artistic director and conductor for the all-professional Dream Orchestra. Daniel has led The Dream Orchestra to become a premier performing art organization in Southern California with creative and versatile programs.

Among the notable productions and conducting include Symphonic and concerto seasonal programs, presenting world-top instrumentalists such as violinist Inmo Yang, YeEun Choi, and pianist Hae-Kyung Suh, Yeol-Eum Son, and Fabio Bidini, Ray Ushikubo and Aubrey Oliverson. The Los Angeles International Choral Festival.  Dream Concerts throughout Los Angeles and Orange County. Full ballet productions and contemporary dance Gala, "Petra Conti and Friends," presenting the world's top dancers and choreographers. Daniel gave the ballet "Giselle" in Pasadena with the Pasadena Civic Ballet Company during the pandemic—the "Korea Fantasy" at Walt Disney Concert Hall with more than 500 performers.

Daniel is also the conductor of the entire professional chorus, "Opera Chorus of Los Angeles." Compromised with top opera singers from Los Angeles and Orange County. With joined forces, notable productions are "Rossini Stabat Mater," "Mozart Requiem," "Verdi Requiem," and the Annual Messiah and summer choral concert at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles, Los Angeles.

The Annual Opera Gala presents the world's top opera singers, such as Julie Adams, Nicolas Brownlee, Angel Blue, Vladimir Chernov, Vladimir Dmitruk, Joshua Guerrero, Konu Kim, Haesang Park, Seok Jong Baek, and many next superstars of the opera world.

For the educational program, the annual "Young Stars of Tomorrow" featured more than 30 next generations of young musicians from Colburn School of Music, OCSA, LACHSA, and other high schools around L.A. and O. C. for the chance to perform with Dream Orchestra as a soloist.

Daniel also dedicates his musical talents to the youth music program, the "Young Artists Orchestra of Los Angeles." With over 100 members, YAOLA gives annual concerts and charity events and participates in the Youth Orchestra Festival such as West Coast Youth Orchestra Festival at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall Invitation. 

A passionate advocate for community outreach and education, Daniel is also known for his master classes, Entrepreneurship in Performing Art, and for delivering lecture recitals. Daniel's notable lecture includes the Dream Philharmonic Lecture Series, and guest lecturer for Yale University, UCLA, Cal Art, and Gonzaga University. In 2021, Daniel was nominated as the inaugural artistic director of the Heart of Los Angeles's Inter-generational Orchestra, where he has successfully developed the program with over 100 members. Today the program expends its program to Inter-generational music program.  

Daniel and The Dream Orchestra has raised more than $20,000 for different charity groups such as Beacon Light Homeless Mission, World Refugee Silk Road Mission, and New Orleans's hurricane victims. Daniel also raised more than $15,000.00 in scholarships for young students. Daniel also supports other charities and future musicians by raising funds with charity concerts throughout Los Angeles.

Today, with his passionate artistic vision, Daniel is cultivating future generations of audiences and educating classical music communities. He gives lecture series to various charities and organizations and raises scholarship funds for future musicians. Daniel has given performance opportunities to young and world-class musicians from all over the world. L.A. Opera Young artists, Columbia Artists Management, IMG Artists, various youth orchestra players from L.A. and Orange County, Colburn School of Music, Music students from top music institutions in America, and notable international competition winners. 

MISSION

Founded in 2011, DOLA endeavors to enrich our community to promote and present world-class performances. We seek to develop and present exciting, passionate classical music, cutting edge performing arts, and support future artists. We aim to bring classical music performances at the highest level to our communities in a way that is affordable and accessible to all. Great music is truly for everyone. The members of Dream Orchestra are world-class studio musicians and graduate students from top music institution of the world. Since its inception, Dream Orchestra has performed at every major concert venue throughout Los Angeles and Orange County.

Dream Orchestra and the Dream Philharmonic Society work together to provide works to our local musicians and bring world top musicians to our community. Dream Orchestra has contracted more than 200 local musicians and gave solo performance opportunities to 50 world top musicians and singers. Dream Orchestra works with many top classical music agents and management such as IMG, International, Columbia Artists, and Concert Artists Guild.

DO and Philharmonic Society supports other musical organization including Metropolitan Opera Western Region, Los Angeles Young Artists, Zachary Opera Competition, Mentory Opera Competition, I Palpiti.

For the communities, DO has raised more than $20,000.00 for charities and gave more than $15,000.00 in scholarships to young high school graduates and young musicians.  Dream Orchestra also works hard to cultivate the next generations of orchestra musicians and audiences through the Young Artists Youth Orchestra program.  Young Artists Orchestra has 100 members, and its purpose is to serve our communities with orchestral concerts.   

DREAM ORCHESTRA INC. is a non-profit organization under the code 501(c)(3)
Artistic  Director and Conductor: Daniel Suk
Orchestra Director: Caster J. Teoh

Media Sponsors:
K-Mozart, KUSC, KPCC, KCRW, LA Arts, Santa Monica Mirror, Beverly Hills Courier, Korea Times, Radio Seoul, Daily Korean News, Chinese Daily, Channel 18 TV.