Hornist Daniel Salera is a versatile music performer and educator based in New York City.  He can currently be heard subbing on Broadway in The Lion King, Aladdin, King Kong, and has appeared with Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular Orchestra.  He was recently named 4th horn of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and regularly appears with performing groups of all shapes and sizes throughout the New York metro area.

 

Prior to relocating, he spent two years in Southeast Michigan, where he cultivated a varied freelance career, performing with the Lansing, Traverse, Dearborn, Motor City, and Birmingham Bloomfield Symphony Orchestras, and Ann Arbor's Aepex Contemporary Ensemble.

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Salera received the Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan where he was a scholarship student of Adam Unsworth and Bryan Kennedy.  This followed a Bachelor of Music degree in horn performance, with distinction, from The Pennsylvania State University as a student of Lisa O. Bontrager.

 

While at Penn State, he established a busy performing schedule in Central Pennsylvania.  For two seasons, he was the 4th horn of the Nittany Valley Symphony and frequently played with the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra and Altoona Symphony.

 

A native of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, Salera began playing the trumpet in elementary school, and after switching to horn in the 6th grade, took his first horn lessons from the late Dennis Abelson, former Professor of Horn at Carnegie Mellon University.  He also studied with Robert Lauver, 2nd horn of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.  Away from the horn, you can find Dan on the golf course, eating sandwiches, and hoping to one day drink beer that he brews himself.