As a member of the Whitman String Quartet, Daniel Panner received the 1998 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award and served as teaching assistant to the Juilliard String Quartet for two years. He currently teaches at the Juilliard School and the Queens College Conservatory of Music. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has taken part in numerous tours with Musicians from Marlboro and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Panner has also appeared as guest artist with Bargemusic, the Carnegie Chamber Players, and the Greenleaf Chamber Players.

An active performer of new music, Daniel Panner is a member of the contemporary ensemble Sequitur, and he has appeared as a guest with such groups as Speculum Musicae, Da Capo Chamber Players, and Music from the Anthology. Mr. Panner has been heard on National Public Radio's "Performance Today," both as soloist and chamber musician. His recording of Thea Musgrave's "Lamenting With Ariadne" for Viola and Chamber Orchestra was released by Albany Records in the Fall of 2003.

Mr. Panner serves as the Principal Violist of the New York City Opera. He studied with Jesse Levine at Yale University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history. He continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Joseph dePasquale and at the Juilliard School with Samuel Rhodes.