In 1997 he won the
Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his Zwei Lieder nach Rilke, a work for
soprano and chamber ensemble. At about that time he created a number of compositions for guitar which were performed at the Winnipeg New Music Festival and recorded by classical guitarist Rachel Gauk.[1][2]
In 2003, he taught musical theory and practice at
The Glenn Gould School in Toronto.[3] In 2007 he received the K.M. Hunter Artists Award for classical music. He served on the faculty of Wilfrid Laurier University, and later became an associate professor of composition at the
Western University.[4]
Daniel was commissioned to create a non-verbal choral work for the Latvian Radio Choir, who performed it in Toronto in 2018.[5] That year Daniel performed at Chamberfest in Ottawa.[6]
In October 2020, Daniel released a CD Omar Daniel: Chamber Works, a collection of chamber pieces performed by the Land's End Ensemble as part of a long collaboration between the Canadian composer and this Juno-nominated, Calgary-based chamber group.[7]