Marie Daniels, born in Texas in 1991 shares her passion for music by playing the viola, performing and teaching. She was a member of the Bremen Philharmonic from 2018 - 2023 and joined the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester in 2024. She’s been running the annual Woodlands ChamberFest, a chamber music festival for thirty students in her home town, since 2012. She gained further invaluable experience as a Teaching Artist with the New York Philharmonic and co-founded the Orchesters des Wandels e.V. She gained her masters and bachelors at the Juilliard School in New York. When she’s not playing she loves hiking and training for the next triathlon or marathon.