Daníel Bjarnason (born 26 February 1979) is a composer and conductor from Iceland. Daníel studied composition, piano and conducting in Reykjavik, before going on to further study orchestral conducting at the University of Music, Freiburg. He has had a number of works commissioned and debuted by Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has garnered widespread acclaim for his debut album, Processions (2010), with Time Out NY declaring that Daníel "create(s) a sound that comes eerily close to defining classical music's undefinable brave new world".