Artistic Staff
Assistant Conductor
Daniel Chetel
joins the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras for the 2009-2010 season as
Assistant Conductor. He recently worked with the Boston Youth Symphony
Orchestras as Program Coordinator for the BYSO’s Intensive Community
Program, a rigorous stringed instrument curriculum serving underrepresented
youth throughout Boston. Originally from Massachusetts, Mr. Chetel has
received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Harvard University as well
as a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of
Maryland School of Music. He is currently working towards his Doctorate of
Musical Arts in Conducting at the University of Kentucky.
While at Harvard Mr. Chetel served as Music Director of the Bach Society
Orchestra and the Dunster House Opera Society and as Associate Conductor for
the Melopoeia Musica Opera Company. At Maryland he served for two years as
co-Music Director of the University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra as well
as assistant conductor for the Maryland Opera Studio’s production of
Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and also worked with the University of Maryland
Symphony Orchestra on numerous performances including an original family
oriented performance about Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
In the summer of 2008 Mr. Chetel traveled with a group of music educators to
Acarigua, Venezuela to work with a nucleo of the nation-wide Venezuelan
Youth Orchestra System known as El Sistema. Mr. Chetel’s principal
instruments are clarinet and voice.