Daniel Walter is a Los Angeles-based composer and musician who has served as lead composer on feature films, television shows, commercials, and movie trailers.

Daniel has worked with filmmakers like horror auteur Ari Aster (MUNCHAUSEN), comedian Scott Aukerman (BETWEEN TWO FERNS), and sports documentary moguls Gotham Chopra, Tom Brady, and Michael Strahan (RELIGION OF SPORTS). Daniel’s music is in films that have premiered at festivals ranging from Cannes to SXSW.

Daniel has guest lectured on film and television scoring at UCLA. His music has been featured in global trailer campaigns from all the major studios. He has scored flagship commercials from major brands that aired during the Super Bowl and the Olympics.

Recognition from colleagues includes being one of 12 composers chosen from 300 applicants for the 2012 ASCAP Film & TV Scoring Workshop; a nomination for a 2014 Jerry Goldsmith Award; and participation in the 2022 Composing in the Wilderness composer residency in Wrangell-St Elias National Park, Alaska.

Daniel has composed music since his first piano lessons at age six and trained as a classical pianist through his teens. Largely self-taught as a composer, he has also studied with private teachers and mentors, including the late jazz pianist and wrecking-crew member, Michael Melvoin, concert composer Ian Krouse, chair of composition and theory at the UCLA School of Music, orchestrator and composer Penka Kouneva, and the late film and television composer, Daniel Licht.