Double bassist Milad Daniari maintains a dynamic career as an orchestral performer, chamber musician, and soloist on the East Coast and around the country, having appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, David H. Koch Theater, Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall. He has performed as Principal Bass with the American Symphony Orchestra and is a member of New York Classical Players; Principal Bass of Pegasus: The Orchestra; and appears with the American Ballet Theatre, Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center (formerly the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra), Musica Sacra, New York Oratorio Society, the Vermont Symphony, Harrisburg Symphony, Albany Symphony, Allentown Symphony, and more.  In May 2023, Milad performed the New York premiere of Tan Dun’s Bass Concerto, Wolf Totem, at Lincoln Center with Academy and Grammy award winning conductor Tan Dun and The Orchestra Now.

Uniquely committed to chamber music on the bass, Milad is an artist at the Seven Hills Chamber Music Festival in Lynchburg, VA and has appeared with Frisson Ensemble, Decoda – the Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, The Sebastians, The Verona Quartet, and the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra. Milad has performed at chamber music series including George Flynn Classical Concerts, Bargemusic, The Roxbury Arts Group Essential Thursdays, Sarasota’s Artist Series Concerts, the Parrish Art Museum’s Salon Series, Oxford Performing Arts Center, and more. Festival appearances include the Chelsea Music Festival, Bard Music Festival, Alba Music Festival, Colorado College Music Festival, Round Top Festival Institute, and the National Repertory Orchestra. As a member of Chesapeake Virtuosi, a chamber music collective, Milad was a 2021 recipient of the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation’s USArtists International Grant, performing a tour through Northern Italy featuring solo and chamber double bass music including works by Bottesini and Iranian composer Behzad Ranjbaran. He was a finalist in the Fort Worth Symphony Young Artist Competition and the Stony Brook University Concerto Competition.

Milad can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon soundtrack for Netflix’s 2023 motion picture Maestro (and seen in the film!), directed by Bradley Cooper, about legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. Milad’s playing can also be heard on Hyperion Records, Sorel Classics, and in the original motion picture soundtrack for Forte.

As an educator, Milad coaches the bassists of the New York Youth Symphony and served as Double Bass Instructor at The Browning School in NYC. In years prior, he was a Site Leader and Teaching Artist at the Empire State Youth Orchestra CHIME (“Creating Harmony in Musical Excellence”) program, a teaching artist at the Classics on Hudson Music Mentor Program, and a lower strings coach for the Maryland Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Milad was previously an inaugural member and Co-Principal Bass of The Orchestra Now. Prior to completing his Master of Music at Bard College, Milad attained his Bachelor of Music at the Manhattan School of Music. His primary instructors are Timothy Cobb, Blake Hinson, and Satoshi Okamoto of the New York Philharmonic.

As an Iranian-American, Milad is particularly passionate about his heritage and amplifying the music of Iranian composers and Persian culture.

Milad performs on a Chris Threlkeld double bass (“Draylen”) made in 2018 in commemoration of Draylen Mason.