Daniel A. Mahraun, DMA

Director

Dr. Daniel A. Mahraun is a freelance choral conductor, lyric baritone, and editor/arranger of music for choirs.

Since 2010, he has been a member of the early music group The Rose Ensemble. Both as a performer and transcriber/editor, he was instrumental in the production of their two most recent CDs, A Toast to Prohibition and Treasures from Baroque Malta.

Mahraun has served as Director of Choral Activities at Minnesota State University Moorhead and at Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kan.). For 10 years at the latter, he also served as Music Director of the Bethany Oratorio Society. The renowned Society’s appearances during the annual Messiah Festival of the Arts consisted of performances of Handel’s Messiah on Palm Sunday and Easter, and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion on Good Friday.

During several years on the Big Island of Hawaii, Mahraun guest conducted the Early Music Hawaii Chamber Choir and the Hilo Community Chorus.

He maintains an active interest in the editing and arranging of music for choirs, including music published by Alliance and MorningStar Music.

Mahraun holds a BME from Wartburg College (Waverly, Ia.), master’s degrees in conducting and performance from the University of Northern Iowa, and a DMA in the literature and performance of choral music from the University of Colorado at Boulder.