Being a strong advocate for the arts, Danielle aims to foster unique, personal experiences that cross the boundaries of music and culture. Her personal musical voice carries strong influences from her Eastern heritage and culture fused with her Western training and experience, aiming to foster unique, personal and cross-cultural experiences with others. Her interest in diversifying her musical experiences led to her exploring music in the realm of classical and jazz genres, forming an artistic vision and identity that is versatile and multi-faceted in nature.

Danielle obtained her Masters in Music at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) as a Graduate Teaching Assistant under the tutelage of Dr. Andrew Dahlke. She was also a graduate from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) / Royal College of Music (RCM) with a Bachelor of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Leslie Wong Kah Ho. In recognition of her efforts, Danielle was a recipient of the Royal College of Music (RCM) Excellence Award, overall winner for the Woodwind category for the NAFA Concerto Competition 2020, 2021 Sugree Charoensook International Music Competition (Senior Class: 2nd Prize) as well as 1st place winner in the 2023 UNC Southard Music Competition. At UNC, she was a recipient of the Brian Bayman Scholarship and the Graduate Dean’s Scholarship Award.

As an active soloist and chamber musician, she has performed with the Orchestra of Music Makers (OMM) and The Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) in Singapore, as well as the Fort Collins Symphony (FCS) and Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra (GPO) in the United States. She was part of the UNC Compass Jazz Orchestra that performed in New Orleans at the 2024 Jazz Education Network (JEN) conference with the Count Basie Orchestra vocalist, Carmen Bradford, and at the UNC Greeley Jazz Festival 2024 with featured vocal artists Michael Mayo, Trist Curless, Genevieve Artadi - as well as opening for the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. More recently, the Compass Jazz Orchestra has recorded an album of original big band music for composer/arranger Paul McKee in May 2024.

With her interest in developing the local and international saxophone community, she has represented the Protege Saxophone Ensemble, the New Meta Quartet and the NAFA Saxophone Quartet/Ensemble in local and international performances and outreach workshops. She has actively premiered and/or commissioned works of various instrumentations by local and international composers. This includes projects such as the Global Saxophone Consortium commissioning project with New Meta Quartet and Singaporean composer Dr. Zechariah Goh Toh Chai, and performing / premiering Singaporean composers’ works (Dr. Emily Koh, Jeremiah Li, Chuung Ee Yong, Dr. Zechariah Goh etc.) at World Saxophone Congress XVIII 2018 in Zagreb, Croatia. More recently, she presented an all-Singaporean programme of saxophone quartet music at the 2024 National American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) conference in Oklahoma with the UNC Saxophone Quartet, promoting Singaporean works on the international stage. 

Her strong belief in the importance of music education, pedagogy and community engagement led her to volunteer and tutor at high school band clinics in Denver, Loveland and Colorado Springs in the state of Colorado. Her teaching experience extends to private students, high school/college bands, private music schools as well as undergraduate students at UNC, where she gives individual lessons, quartet coaching and facilitates studio classes/clinics as part of her teaching assistantship responsibilities. In her hometown of Singapore, she has previously hosted various saxophone masterclass series during and post-COVID pandemic, covering a variety of topics from both classical and jazz genres. 

Danielle also has extensive experience as an administrative staff member and joint organizer of the Asia Pacific Saxophone Academy (APSA) since 2017 and works in music administration and facilitation for this camp. This includes the organisation and participation of lessons, competitions, concerts, masterclasses and recitals - working with faculty, staff and students from all over the world. Recent editions of the APSA summer camp hosted over 150 international students and faculty, including the likes of notable saxophonists such as Nobuya Sugawa, Jean-Yves Fourmeau and Taimur Sullivan, where she has also taken masterclasses with Asagi Ito, Pieter Pellens, Stacy Wilson, Xavier Larsson, Jeffrey Loeffert, Jonathan Nichol to name a few - as well as performed in ensembles under artists such as Toshikazu Nagase.

Her research interests include the psychology and philosophy of music education, the role and functionality of multiculturalism in music as well as the state and future of jazz in the Southeast Asian region. She is also particularly interested in increasing cultural competence and understanding of these genres on the international stage. 

Starting August 2024, she will pursue a Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A) degree at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) under the tutelage of Professor Steve Stusek. She was generously awarded the UNCG Alumni/Excellence/Hayes Fellowship Award 2024 for her notable track record in her academic and professional career thus far, making the pursuit of her further studies at UNCG possible.