“Danielle Jagelski is a prime example of socially responsive artistry in the 21st century.”

- I Care If You Listen

Danielle Jagelski is a composer, conductor, and creative producer. She is the Artistic Director and Co-founder of Renegade Opera and is sought after as a composer and conductor for boundary pushing and community-centered works.

Her work has been performed around the country including at Lincoln Center, Roulette Intermedium, The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and Performance Space New York. Recent and upcoming commissions include works for Portland Opera, American Composers Forum- Recomposing America/PROTESTRA, Voices of Ascension, New Music Concerts- Relatives Ensemble, ChamberQUEER, New Native Theatre, North American Indigenous Songbook, CUNY-Seagal Center, MoreArt, Tapestry Choir, Sister Singers Network, Michigan State University, and American Patriots Project.

An enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, Danielle often collaborates and performs with other Indigenous and Native American artists. She is passionate about kinship building and decolonization through interdisciplinary projects. She is also an active consultant on equitable producing practices and decolonial frameworks, having worked with institutions such as New York University, University of Portland, Handel and Haydn Society, and First Nations Performing Arts.

As a conductor, Danielle is sought out for her execution of the music of now. Recent conducting engagements include Voiceless Mass by Raven Chacon with International Contemporary Ensemble in the historical concert of all contemporary North American Indigenous concert music titled Voices of Mannahatta with Voices of Ascension, which she was the guest Artistic Director, NextGen3 with Beth Morrison Projects, Amistad by Anthony Davis with Harlem Opera Theatre, Waking the Witch by Ashi Day, Ḵutulagaaw by Ed Littlefield, Missing by Brian Current at Anchorage Opera, Dark Sisters by Nico Muhly, associate conductor for The Witcher In Concert national tour. World premieres of Adam’s Run by Ruby Fulton and Garden of Alice by Elizabeth Raum, and guest conductor for the Manhattan School of Music Symphony, and National Music Global Culture Society at Lincoln Center. Upcoming projects include Music Director of Trials and Tears by Dawn Avery at Cooper Union and Music Director of the Ghostbusters in Concert- National Tour.

Danielle has been the recipient of multiple grants and awards including the 2026 Opera America Discovery Grant for Women Composers, New Music USA’s Creator Fund 2026, as well as the IDEA grant with playwright Rhiana Yazzie, for their new opera, Little Ones. She is a First People’s Fund 2026 Performing Arts Fellow, as well as part of the 2025 LIFT cohort at Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and has also been awarded the Emerging Artist Commission from More Art. She has received grants from Opera America, The Plimpton Foundation, and Oregon Community Foundation, among others. She was a resident artist at the 2024 Berkeley Repertory Theatre- Groundfloor Residency, and has earned awards for her work in contemporary opera from the National Opera Association and Broadway World.

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