Meet Your Director
Mr. Daniel J. Singer is the Director of Bands at Oshkosh West High School. His duties include team teaching concert bands, conducting the pit orchestra for the annual musical theater production, directing jazz band, and events outside of the school day such as marching band and pep band. He also performs as a member of Vento Winds and Wisconsin Symphonic Winds and has performed with the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, the Fox Cities Swing Band, Oshkosh Area Community Band, , and other area ensembles. Mr. Singer has taught at OWHS since the fall of 2007 and has been teaching band in Wisconsin since 2000.
A native of Kenosha, WI, he is a 2000 Graduate of UW-Platteville (BS in Instrumental Music Education) and a 2011 Graduate of VanderCook College of Music (Masters of Music Education).In August of 2011, he graduated with his Master's Degree in Music Education from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois. For his master's thesis project Mr. Singer wrote a method book for teaching Jazz Ensemble titled Warm-ups, Etudes, and Daily Drills for the Large Jazz Ensemble at the Advanced Level.
Mr. Singer was a staff member for the 2010 Wisconsin Ambassadors of Music tour of Europe. He performed with the band on trumpet and was sectional coach for the bass clarinets and bassoons. This group is made up of music students from all over Wisconsin who were nominated by their school music teacher. Every two years they travel to Europe for a performing tour that includes: England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany.
Mr. Singer is a member of several professional organizations, including: American School Band Directors Association (ASBDA), National Band Association (NBA), National Association for Music Education (NAfME), Wisconsin Music Educators Association (WMEA), International Trumpet Guild (ITG), Wisconsin Concert Band Association (WCBA), and is an alumni of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Professional Music Fraternity and the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps.
Some of Mr. Singer’s interests and hobbies include: home improvement projects, yard work, instrument repair and modification, listening to jazz, Milwaukee Brewers baseball, Green Bay Packers football, and spending time with his family including his wife, son, daughter, and two dogs.
Contact Us
Daniel Singer
Director of Bands
daniel.singer@oshkosh.k12.wi.us
(920) 424-4090 Ext. 6715
Oshkosh West High School Band Office
375 North Eagle Street, Room M10
Oshkosh, WI 54902
(920) 424-4090 Ext. 3042
Class Schedule 2026-27
Zero Hour (7:15am-8:05): Zero Hour Jazz Band (Tue & Thur)
1st Hour (8:10am-9:00am): Wildcat Band
3rd Hour (10:00am-10:50am): Adaptive Music
4th Hour (11:26pm-12:16pm): Varsity Band
5th Hour (12:56pm-1:46pm): Wind Ensemble
6th Hour (1:51pm-2:41pm): Concert Band