Daniel Grossmann

Artistic director 
Under the baton of Daniel Grossmann, the JCOM brings out the diversity of the tonal language with brilliant balance. He delicately guides the small, powerful discharges that break out of the rather delicate background. (Neue Musikzeitung)
 
Daniel Grossmann has spent his entire professional life searching for the place of Jewish culture in the collective consciousness and contributing to intercultural dialogue by communicating this culture. Based on this question, the conductor founded the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich (initially the Orchestra Jakobsplatz Munich) in 2005, which has since developed into an internationally acclaimed, professional orchestra at a high musical level under his direction and also stands out in Munich‘s diverse cultural life with its extraordinary projects.
Daniel Grossmann always focuses on projects that have something to do with the today, here and now. He skillfully combines the music of past eras with contemporary forms of presentation and turns the JCOM concerts into impressive experiences for the audience. Of course, he also deals with ‘forgotten’ Jewish composers, which he presents as an expressive speaker in moderated concerts.
Daniel Grossmann was born to a Jewish-Hungarian family in Munich in 1978, where he still lives today. He began his conducting studies with Hans-Rudolf Zöbeley, then studied in New York at the Metropolitan Opera with Scott Bergeson and at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ervin Lukács. His extensive discography includes recordings of Jewish composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel, Alexander Zemlinsky, Viktor Ullmann, Paul Ben-Haim and Marc Neikrug, as well as works by Iannis Xenakis, John Cage and Beethoven.
In recognition of his tireless work in cultural mediation, Daniel Grossmann was awarded the ‘Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum’ prize by the Bavarian Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts. In 2025, he received the Honorary Award of the Munich Citizens‘ Prize for Democracy - Against Forgetting as an ‘outstanding ambassador of Jewish life and Jewish musical culture and as a cultural mediator for the visibility of Jewish life in public’.