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Daniel Rein is a pianist, composer, and music director with extensive international experience in musical theater. He served two years as Music Director for the European tour of Cats, was Associate Conductor on the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Tour, and has performed as Associate Conductor and keyboardist on the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in New York. He is a member of the prestigious BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, widely regarded as the premier training ground for emerging musical theater composers, lyricists, and librettists. As a composer and songwriter, his recent projects and commissions include And the Sun Goes Up (commissioned by MasterVoices), Her Violet Eye, a song cycle based on the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, and Improvisations on Misirlou, a mini-concerto for piano inspired by a Greek folk song. An accomplished pianist, Daniel performs in both classical and jazz idioms. He has competed in international classical piano competitions and appeared with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, at the International Association for Jazz Education Conference in California, and in leading jazz venues in New York City. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London. Daniel grew up in Jerusalem, Israel, amid a cultural mosaic shaped by Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions — an influence that continues to inform the breadth and versatility of his artistic voice.