Instructor
Department of Music
FAC 108
(580) 774- 3208
daniel.farris@swosu.edu

Daniel Farris is in his third year with the music faculty of Southwestern Oklahoma State University and on the music staff of First Presbyterian Church of Elk City, OK. Daniel has conducted various choirs in Texas and Oklahoma, including the Western Oklahoma Choral Directors Association Junior High Honor Choir (2008), the Arlington High School Colt Chorale at the Texas Music Educators Association convention (2005), and various other ensembles.He currently performs as a tenor chorister and soloist in Oklahoma and the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Before moving to Weatherford, Daniel worked professionally as a music educator, performer, voice teacher, and wine consultant across the Dallas/Fort Worth area and in San Angelo, TX, for ten years. During his tenure as a teaching fellow for the University of North Texas, he performed with the Denton Bach Society and UNT’s Canticum novum (1998-2003) conducted by Henry Gibbons, concentrating on the works of J. S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Hugo Distler, Johannes Brahms, and other composers. With the UNT Opera department, Daniel was the assistant conductor for their 2002 production of Don Giovanni, chorusmaster for Dialogue of the Carmelites (2000), and the first mounting of the world premiere of Heinrich Scheuble’s Dorian Grey (2003). In the 2001-2002 season of the Dallas Opera Company, he sang in the production of the last opera of Wagner’s opera cycle, Das Ring des Nibelungen. Daniel performed regularly and toured internationally with the Arlington Choral Society (Italy 2001), Saint Mark School of Texas Schola (England 2002), and the Helios Ensemble, as well as with various churches and choirs throughout Texas.

Daniel received his bachelor degree in music from Angelo State University (1997), and his doctor of musical arts degree from the University of North Texas in 2009. He also studies and teaches arnis, a Filipino martial art he has taught for twelve years after having tested with Grandmaster Ernesto Amador Presas for his Lakan Isa ranking in 1998. He currently teaches arnis at the Chris Pollman Karate Academy in Weatherford and holds both Lakan (Modern Arnis) and Lakan Dalawa (Kombatan arnis) rankings.

Daniel lives in the Weatherford/Thomas area with his wife, Angela, and his three children Anthony, Amelia, and Daphne.