Daniel Conte has been playing, singing and directing choirs and ensembles in Maine since the 1990's. Before that he was involved in church music as well as theater, film and recorded music in New York. He has composed many psalm settings, masses, choral works as well as secular and instrumental pieces and film scores.
He studied piano with Robert Degaetano, composition with David Tcimpidis and tuba with Sam Pilafian at The Mannes College of Music in NY, and studied voice with Shirley Frankum.
Currently he is Music Director at St. Joseph Church in Ellsworth, ME. He is a member of the St. John's Chamber Choir in Bangor, Maine. He also conducts the Brooklin Band and teaches private voice, piano, tuba and theory and composition lessons. He lives in Orland with his wife Dorothy and his youngest son, Ed.