Daniel Chynsky is a composer and guitarist based in New York City.  He creates and performs music for concerts as well as film, television, and other media. In January 2018, his string quartet was chosen to be performed at the Global Peace and Music Foundation’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics Celebration Concert held at Brooklyn College.  He has also performed his own music at venues such as the The Knitting Factory, Cakeshop, and Shapeshifter Lab as well as at colleges including Columbia University, Wesleyan, Bard, Sarah Lawrence, and Ohio State University. 

Daniel’s string quartet, Hijaz, was featured on the Brooklyn Composers’ Collective’s first album in collaboration with the Xanthoria String Quartet released on November 17, 2019.  In May 2019, Daniel’s piece for two guitars,  Telephone, was performed by guitarists George England and Mateo Vintimilla at the Brooklyn Composers’ Collective’s new guitar music concert held at the Brooklyn Guitar School.  An arrangement of this piece for solo guitar was performed by George England at the Greenwich House School of Music’s Faculty Recital series. In June 2026, members of Manhattan Symphonie performed his piece, Hijaz, at their Wednesday concert series in New York City.  

Daniel currently composes music for film and television. He has composed and performed music for feature films, shorts, video presentations, and commercials including the German narrative feature, Ivan Borisoviç. His musical influences are far reaching. The melodic modes and rhythms of Arabic music have strongly influenced his work along with the sounds of jazz, baroque music, rock, soul, and other genres. Daniel enjoys many different kinds of music and values exchange between musicians and artists of different backgrounds and between different musical forms.