He was a junior student at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz under Professor Malte Burba before becoming a full-time student there.
From this period onwards, he was very active: touring with the European Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra, giving his first solo concerts with organ and piano, and becoming a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Youth Ensemble for New Music. In 1999, Daniel transferred to the Cologne University of Music, where he graduated in 2004 in the class of Professor Urban Agnas. Numerous master classes with the greats of his field rounded off his training.
Daniel Ackermann gained orchestral experience at the Theater Trier, the Cologne Opera, the North Rhine-Westphalia Orchestra Academy, the l’Orchestre des Jeunes de la Grande Region, the Bonn Classical Philharmonic, the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, WDR Funkhausorchester, the Rheinische Kantorei under Herman Max, the Deutsche Bläserphilharmonie, and the Bläserphilharmonie Süd-West. Solo concerts with various orchestras (such as Sinfonietta Mainz and the Dvorak Symphony Orchestra Prague), as well as regular performances with organ and piano, enrich his musical work just as much as his collaboration with various brass ensembles and forays into jazz, rock, and pop music. In 2006, Daniel was awarded a scholarship by the Richard Wagner Association. His concert activities have taken him on tours throughout Europe and the USA.
