Faculty Profiles


Daniel-Paul-Horn-2024

Daniel Paul Horn, D.M.A.

Professor of Music (Piano), Chair of Keyboard Area

On Faculty since 1984
630.752.5826
Armerding 254

daniel.horn@wheaton.edu

Pianist Daniel Paul Horn performs in recital throughout North America, on WFMT-FM, and with Midwestern orchestras; in 2015, he appeared with the Sarajevo Philharmonic. He collaborates with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, played in Beijing and on Bermuda with the MasterWorks Ensemble, and has performed with the Ying Quartet. He works with noted singers, and has premiered compositions of Jacob Bancks, Jacob Beranek, Delvyn Case, Richard Danielpour, David M. Gordon, Daniel Kellogg, and Max Raimi. He recorded the critically praised disc “Wanderings” on a Graf fortepiano, an all-Schumann solo recital, and discs with flutist Jennie Oh Brown, cellist Donald Moline, soprano Carolyn Hart, and baritone Gerard Sundberg.

Horn studied at Peabody with Walter Hautzig, and at Juilliard, where he worked with Martin Canin and Felix Galimir, and earned his doctorate. He has also coached with Jerome Lowenthal, Ann Schein, Joseph Bloch, and Roy Howat, Menahem Pressler. Currently Professor and Keyboard Chair at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, where he has taught since 1984, and was honored with an Senior Academic Achievement Award, he has served as a faculty artist at the Sewanee, Adamant, MasterWorks, and Dakota Sky festivals, and is treasurer of the American Liszt Society.

Dr. Horn has been piano chair at the Wheaton College Conservatory since 2002.

Undergraduate Degree, BM
Piano Performance
Juilliard, 1978

Masters Degree, MM
Piano Performance
Juilliard, 1979

Doctoral Degree, DMA
Piano Performance
Juilliard, 1987

Applied Piano, Piano Literature, History, and Performance Practice
Chamber Music
Solo and collaborative piano performance
  • American Liszt Society, Treasurer
  • Music Teachers National Association, Nationally Certified Teacher of Music