Daniel Hathaway

Canon for Music, Art & Worship
Artistic Director, Music & Performing Arts
at Trinity Cathedral

Daniel Hathaway was educated at Harvard College (A.B. 1967), Princeton University (graduate study in musicology, 1967-1968) and the Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge, MA, M.Div. 1971).

He has served as head of Humanities at the Sunset Hill School, music director of Pembroke Country Day School and music director of Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral, in Kansas City, and Head of Arts and Director of Music of St. John's Chapel at Groton School in Massachusetts.

He became director of music at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, in 1977, where he founded Music & Performing Arts at Trinity and the Brownbag Concert Series in 1978, and Trinity Chamber Orchestra in 1986.

In addition to his activities at Trinity, he was recently elected President of the Harvard Club of Northeast Ohio. In Cleveland, he has also been music director of Great Lakes Theatre Festival, assistant chorus master of Cleveland Opera, upper school music director for Laurel School in Shaker Heights, and lecturer in music at Cleveland State University. He has served on the Music Panel of the Ohio Arts Council.

He was installed as Canon for Music, Art & Worship of Trinity Cathedral in May 2001.

As organist, he has played recitals in the U.S. cathedrals of St. John the Divine, New York, Washington, Kansas City and Topeka, in the U.K. cathedrals of Chester, Edinburgh, Norwich & Winchester, and in France, Germany, Austria & Sweden.

He made his Latin American conducting debut in April of 2004 in a production of Dido & Aeneas at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and during the Summer of 2004, taught conducting at a Beethoven course sponsored by the Fundación el Sonido y el Tiempo in San Martin, Province of Buenos Aires, and was guest conductor of the Orquésta de Camára del Neuquén in Patagonia.