Daniel Andai is presently concertmaster of The Miami Symphony Orchestra (MISO) and has performed as a soloist on several occasions, including their newly released CD, An Evening in Vienna. He is the founder of the Special Development Program and is scheduled to record Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and appear as soloist with MISO on their upcoming tour throughout South and Central Americas.

Mr. Andai is also the concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas (POA) in New York City and has performed as a soloist on their SONY Classical CD's, Mi Alma Mexicana. He was also the solo violinist for the world-wide televised performance at the Angel of Independence, for a crowd of millions, celebrating Mexico's Bicentennial Independence. Other solo performances include New York's Lincoln Center and at the Festival of the Americas in Vermont. He was a featured soloist while on tour with the orchestra in Mexico (2010) and led POA alongside major recording artists (John Legend, Santana, Jose Feliciano, Kenny G, Patti Lebel) for Gloria Estefan's award tribute concert hosted by the Grammy's. Additional concerts have included collaborations with Grammy Award winner Gustavo Santaolalla and the Argentinean Tango band, Bajofondo, at the Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Most recently, Daniel Andai performed with actor/narrator Chris Noth (Sex and the City) in Lincoln Center and is scheduled to return to Mexico to perform as a soloist on their new CD set this winter.

Previous orchestral appointments have included concertmaster of the Filarmonica de Minas Gerais in Brazil, Dicapo Opera Orchestra in New York as well as associate concertmaster of the Verbier Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, with whom he traveled extensively throughout the world as a member of the Vengerov Project (with violinists Maxim Vengerov, Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang and Hilary Hahn). He was also principal violinist in Kurt Masur's Seminar Orchestra and Pinchas Zukerman's chamber orchestra in Carnegie Hall. Additionally, he served as concertmaster for film composer Dave Grussin's orchestra on the Jazz Roots series. Orchestral collaborations include the New York Philharmonic, Florida Philharmonic, National Symphony of the Dominican Republic, New World Symphony and the Miyazaki Orchestra in Japan.

As a recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Andai has performed in various international festivals such as the Indiana University String Academy, UBS Verbier International Festival, Luzerne Festival, Academy of Montpelier, Meadowmount School of Music, Banff Centre, University of Lincoln-Nebraska, Schlern International Festival, Killington Music Festival, Bravo!, Venezuelan Festival "El Sistema en el Mundo", Bowdoin International Festival, Festival del Sole (Italy, California and Singapore), Cooperstown Music Festival, Music Festival of the Americas, Miyazaki International Festival, Berkeley Chamber Concerts, Campo do Jordao in Brazil and the Beaumaris International Festival in Wales, among others. He was a member of Richard Danielpour's contemporary music Claremont Ensemble in New York City and first violinist of the trouring Vols String Quartet, presenting concerts and educational outreaches to thousands of students from elementary schools to the college level. Mr. Andai has conducted master classes throughout the US at various colleges, festivals and youth orchestras and has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Emerson, Cassatt, Vermeer, Corigliano and Chiara String Quartets.

Daniel Andai has been invited by the Manhattan School of Music as a performer and guest speaker for their inaugural Entrepreneurial Program as well as being a representative at the inaugural Rice University Career Seminar in Texas. He also serves as a panelist for former Governor and First Lady of Florida Jeb and Columba Bush's ARTS for Life Scholarship Competition and as a grant panelist for Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs. Other special appearances include performances for Lech Walesa (former Prime Minister of Poland), Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel), Hillary Clinton (U.S. Secretary of State), Al Gore (former U.S. Vice President), Ernesto Zedillo (former President of Mexico), Felipe Calderon (President of Mexico), and actors Robert Redford, Andy Garcia, Chris Noth & Donald Trump (The Apprentice).

Daniel Andai is a recording artist for AMZ Records in Miami that recently recorded a music video and hit single with Panama's Latin American Idol winner, released throughout the Caribbean and South America. Other appearances include The Late Show with David Letterman, solo violinist in the award winning PBS documentary special "Sugihara- Conspiracy of Kindness," as soloist with orchestras on the CACAO Label and SONY Classical Label and radio and television performances in South America’s Channel 4 RED Station program "Cachureos", Univision and Telemundo Stations, Vermont's WVPR, Boston's WGBH, New York’s WNYC, WQXR and National Public Radio WXEL & WKAT Classical Stations in addition to movie soundtracks.

In humanitarian efforts, Daniel Andai has been recognized as a concertmaster by donating his services alongside members of the New York Philharmonic, MET Opera Orchestra, Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Guarneri and Emerson Quartets, raising funds through annual concerts in Carnegie Hall for cities affected by natural disasters in Darfur, Asia, and Haiti. His involvement inaugurating the Kids Village Youth Orchestra, now the Miami Symphony Youth Orchestra, as well as being a guest, is highly regarded. He has also performed raising funds funds for Best Buddies International and Missionaries of the Poor in Jamaica.

Daniel Andai is the professor of violin at Miami-Dade College and the New World School of the Arts in Miami. He is also on the faculty of the Killington Music Festival in Vermont and serves on the advisory board for the City of Aventura Performing Arts Center. Former teachers include NY Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow, Lisa Kim, Sergiu Schwartz, Ruggiero Ricci and David Oistrack pupil, Cyrus Forough. He holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music Orchestral Program (Rafael Bronstein Award and the Helen F. Whitaker Scholarship recipient) and the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University in Florida.