Daniel Yoo, a native of Canada, and educated for violin and viola from both the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Daniel has garnered numerous honors and awards throughout his young career. While in Cleveland, he was invited to perform as acting concertmaster for the Cleveland Philharmonic during the 2002-2003 season. He has won 1st Prize honors in Canada including the Canadian Music Competition and the Kiwanis Music Competition and also throughout Asia and the United States.

At the age of 14, he performed the Sinding Suite and the Lalo Symphonie Espanol in a debut concert at the prestigious Carnegie Hall. He later performed in Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center with the Inter-School Orchestra of New York City. That same year, he toured Canada performing Mozart's 3rd, 4th and 5th Concerto's with the York Symphony and the TafelMusik Baroque Orchestra. Daniel is best known for his performances of the Mozart Concerto's and is today known as the Mozart specialist. He has made public appearances on "Good Morning America", "Good Day Philadelphia", and after 9/11, he performed for a memorial service in NYC that was broadcast around the world.

Daniel has also performed with some of the world's most-renowned musical artists coming from a wide variety of genres. These include musicians like Kristoph Penderecki, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Andre Previn, Winton Marsalis, Steve Reich, Bobby McFerrin, Sarah Chang and Lisa Loeb. Daniel also performed the Shostakovich no. 8, directed under Kristoph Penderecki in Puerto Rico. Kristoph Penderecki is better known for his scores in the psychological horror movie, "The Shining" with Jack Nicholson.
Daniel later won 1st Prize in the Casals Music Festival and gave a unforgettable performance of the Sibelius violin concerto, which is one of the most complex and difficult piece of our time. Daniel was directed under Philadelphia Orchestra's Luis Biava.

Participation in many international music festivals is also counted among Daniel's list of professional experiences. Dorothy Delay, assistant to Ivan Galamian his Juilliard violin teacher, invited him to study under her after she attending his performance at the Aspen Music Festival. He made frequent visits to her home for private lessons. While at Juilliard, he also picked up the viola with Eugene Becker, (former Principal violist NY Phil) who quoted that Daniel would be the next principal violist of the New York Philharmonic.

Daniel has performed is such places like the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. He has worked with music greats like James Levine, Kurt Massur, Kent Negano, Evgeny Kissin and Maxim Vengerov at this extremely exclusive festival. He has attended the Spoleto Festival and was concertmaster in historic Charleston, South Carolina.

Daniel had the honor to meet and play for the great Joseph Gingold at Meadowmount Summer program. Bountiful successes in festivals and competitions in Asia have also been significant in Daniel's life, including recitals he has performed in Japan, and with the Pacific Music Festival.

Daniel was later introduced to Jascha Brodsky's studio while attending the Encore Music Festival and was personally invited to attend the Curtis Institute of Music. Before he even knew how prestigious Curtis even was... For a period of time, he shared a teacher with Hilary Hahn. Daniel's owes great credit to all the many private teachers, and coaches that past through his life, names like Eugene Kash, Gerrard Kantarjian, Atis Bankis, Ti Zhang, Nelly Shkolnikova, Gregory Fulkerson, Helen Kwalwasser, David Russell, Victor Danchenko, Jascha Milkas, Hyo Kang, Won bin Yim, Chin Kim, Lambert Orkis, and Anne Epperson

Due to Daniel's unique, superb and refined talent, various private collectors have loaned him a number of priceless Stradi and Guarneri violins and some of rarest bows such as Peccatte and Torte.

Borealis Music Society is the personal creation and project of Daniel. He founded this elite musical group with a mission of taking the raw talent of extraordinary musicians, and combining those talents through chamber music in order to best present them to society. Through participation in the group, the young musicians now have the venue to perform more extensively for both live audiences as well as in the recording studio. Most of his students are under going intense training under Daniels supervision, and he continues to teach and represent them through the Borealis Music Society.

Daniel is presently a signed recording artist with Forge Recording LLC. His next CD of the Paganini 24 Caprices is to be released in 2012.