Program Lead

  • Daniel Suk

    Artistic Director

    P: 213-389-1149 ext. 305
    E: dsuk@heartofla.org

  • Daniel Suk has enjoyed an international career as an operatic tenor and as a conductor worldwide for over 25 years. Daniel is a true citizen of the world who has a strong classical music and multi-cultural background. With contemporary taste, Daniel works with creative vision and passion who strive for the creation of next generation of performing art. In 1990, Daniel was accepted to Lucio Campiani, National Music Conservatory of Mantova, Italy. Since his debut in 1995 at Opera House, Mantova, Italy, Daniel has performed in many prestigious opera houses in Europe, Asia, and America.

    As a Music Director and Conductor Daniel served many prestigious organizations, including the Chamber Orchestra of Mantova, L’Opera Laboratory of Verona, Italy, the UCLA Symphony, and the all-professional Dream Orchestra. Since his return to Los Angeles, Daniel has conducted at every major concert venue in Southern California and has performed at more than 100 concert venues throughout the U.S.

    Daniel also supports other charities and future musicians by raising funds with charity concerts throughout Los Angeles. He has fundraised for different charity groups for scholarships and to support local, national and world causes. Through his passionate artistic vision, Daniel is cultivating future generations of audiences and also educating communities to classical music. As the artistic director of HOLA’s intergenerational orchestra, Daniel looks forward to bringing together musicians of all ages from across Los Angeles via a beautiful community dedicated to orchestral music.

Meet the Team at HOLA IO

  • Caster Teoh

    Associate Conductor

    Brass

  • Carlos Maulini

    Section Leader

    Flute

  • Ali Conte

    Section Leader

    Clarinet

  • Daniel Goldblum

    Teaching Artist

    Winds

  • Aaron Reihs

    Teaching Artist

    Sax

  • Shota Hanai

    Teaching Artist

    Percussion

  • Steve Chiu

    Teaching Artist

    Violin

  • Isabella Mier

    Teaching Artist

    Viola

  • Benton Preciado

    Teaching Artist

    Cello/Bass

  • Louis Fantasia

    Section Leader

    Double Bass

  • Marielle Constantino

    Associate Orchestral Coordinator

  • Rene Mallia Weiss-Cruz

    Rene M. Weiss-Cruz

    Eisner Intergenerational Music Program Manager

  • Melissa Constantino

    HOLA Music Program Associate Director

  • Kevin Robb

    HOLA Music Program Director

  • Tony Brown

    HOLA CEO and Eisner Intergenerational Orchestra Co-Founder

Advisory Board

 

Nataly Gonzalez, Alumni of the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles and IO Musician

Mani Mekler, Former, dramatic soprano with the Stockholm Royal Opera and Dusseldorf’s Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Mitchel D. Moore, Founder of Heart of Los Angeles, Studio Singer and IO Musician

Michelle Elliott Rearick, Director of Heart of Los Angeles Music Department

Loren Rubin, Senior Director of Programs for Heart of Los Angeles

Mark Tyson, Musical Artist and Music Instructor and IO Musician

Monique Van Willingh, Director of Cultural Equity and Belonging for the New England Conservatory of Music

Christine Witkowski Berkowitz, Founding Youth Orchestra LA Director at Heart of Los Angeles