Danielle Jagelski is a conductor and composer based in New York City and Portland, OR. At home in choral, opera, and orchestral realms, she is the Music Director and co-founder of Renegade Opera, an immersive opera company based in Portland, OR, and serves as cover conductor at Manhattan School of Music.

Most recently, she has Music Directed and arranged Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and upcoming performances include La clamenza di Tito with Renegade Opera (Portland, OR) and Garden of Alice by Elizabeth Raum with City Lyric Opera (New York, NY). Past engagements include working with ensembles such as the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Orchestra, Norwalk Youth Symphony, Minnesota Chorale, MOTUS vocal ensemble, and University of Idaho Symphony.

Danielle and has recently conducted at Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Hallowed Halls (Portland, OR) and Aquilon Music Festival (McMinnville, OR). She is a lover of collaboration, having premiered nearly 50 newly written works by living composers. Her performances have been described:

“At once timeless and of its time, it expands your heart and mind with every note, telling a story of grief and love that is as honest as it is hopeful.” (Oregon ArtsWatch, 2021)

As an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation and Redcliff Band of Ojibwe, Danielle often collaborates with other Native artists in multidisciplinary creative projects in order to sustain and further the visibility of Indigenous peoples in the fine arts realm. Danielle is a fierce advocate for equity in musical spaces, and has presented her research in mixed-race studies and classical music throughout the US and Canada.

As a composer, she enjoys writing choral, vocal, and chamber music. Her most recent premieres have been by MUSE Cincinnati Women’s Choir, Hear Us Hear Them, and In The Pocket Ensemble. She is currently writing a song cycle about patriotism through a BIPOC lens in collaboration with mezzo-soprano, Samantha Rose Williams.

Danielle began her musical studies in classical composition at Hamline University with Jannika Vandervelde, and then continued studying conducting at Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Jos Vermunt and at Manhattan School of Music with George Manahan.