Daniel Weidlein

About

DanielWeidlein

Daniel Weidlein seated on a wooden chair, hands clasped, facing the camera

A Los Angeles composer, instrumentalist, and producer, working where jazz, chamber music, and performance art meet.

Originally from Boulder, Colorado, Daniel writes music that pairs accessible melody with an ethos of empathy. His concert works go toward subjects that are hard to talk about: wildfire and grief in From The Ashes, and inherited Jewish-American anxiety in CONE.

He scores films, produces and arranges for artists from drag pop to classical, sings with M•PACT, and runs BioSoul Music, a boutique studio in Silver Lake. He is a graduate of the USC Thornton School of Music.

Full biography

Daniel Weidlein is a Los Angeles-based composer, instrumentalist, and producer whose work lives at the intersection of jazz, chamber music, and immersive performance art. Originally from Boulder, Colorado, his music weaves accessible melody and an ethos of empathy into expansive, genre-crossing works.

His concert works focus on subjects that are inherently hard to talk about. Alongside From the Ashes, his catalog includes CONE, a multi-movement piece for jazz quartet and chamber choir exploring the generational, inherited anxiety of being Jewish-American.

In 2018 he released Fire in the Sky, his first collection of contemporary jazz compositions, followed by the 2019 release of A Winter’s Lullaby. To celebrate the release of these albums, he issued a separate vinyl edition of the three-movement piece The Red Line Suite. In 2024 he released a companion album to the film Sleepwalk called Music For Your Hi-Fi, featuring original compositions in the style of 50s and 60s exotica and Brazilian jazz.

He composed the original score for independent films Sleepwalk (2024) and Mother (2026), orchestrated the Indigo Girls film musical Glitter and Doom, and served as producer and orchestrator for The Shadow (2026) premiering at La Mirada Theatre. His production and arranging credits include the Budapest Recording Orchestra, drag queens Peppermint, Monét X Change, and Sapphira Cristál, and pop artists like Blake McGrath, Kenton Chen, and Lumi Jin. As a performer, he has appeared in Whiplash, on Glee, and on NBC’s The Sing-Off.

He is also a longtime member of M•PACT, the acclaimed vocal jazz ensemble, and runs BioSoul Music, a boutique recording studio in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Daniel Weidlein playing tenor saxophone, seated cross-legged on the floor

The player

Saxophone, flute, keys, and voice.

A working studio and stage musician who has played and sung with

Frank Wess · John Daversa · Bob Mintzer · Joshua Redman · Demi Lovato · Shoshana Bean · Leland Sklar · Monét X Change · The Midnight Movers · Ben Bram

and appeared in

Whiplash · Glee · The Sing-Off · The Late Late Show · The Steve Harvey Show

and has sold out shows of his own music at

The Blue WhaleLos Angeles · DazzleDenver · Minton’s PlayhouseNew York

leading his own trio and quintet. He’s also played the Piteå Dansar & Ler festival in Sweden.

Along the way

  1. 2027From The Ashes dance premiere
  2. 2026The Shadow at La Mirada Theatre
  3. 2024Sleepwalk, and Music for your Hi-Fi
  4. 2019A Winter’s Lullaby
  5. 2018Fire in the Sky and The Red Line Suite
  6. 2014Score for the film Chosen
  7. 2013Score for Todd Levin’s short film Pale Blue
  8. 2012Cityscape, with jazz trio The Vintage Modernists
  9. 2008YoungArts winner

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