Daniel Overly is lecturer in music in voice and collaborative piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

He has built an exceptionally versatile career as a pianist, chamber musician, and vocal coach. For the past five seasons, he has served as a rehearsal pianist for The Cleveland Orchestra, collaborating closely with The Cleveland Orchestra choruses, conductors, and guest artists. He also performs regularly as a recitalist and chamber musician across the United States and Europe, working with members of The Cleveland Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Vienna State Opera, and Vienna Philharmonic, among others.

As rehearsal pianist, Overly has assisted Franz Welser-Möst in preparing a wide range of operas and oratorios, including Bach’s St. John Passion, Mozart’s Requiem and Die Zauberflöte, Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, Schubert’s Mass in E-flat, Stravinsky’s Threni, Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and Verdi’s Otello and Requiem. He has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Klaus Mäkelä, Thomas Adès, Bernard Labadie, and Osmo Vänskä.

Overly is also at home in the world of contemporary music, having assisted John Adams with El Niño and George Benjamin with Dream of the Song, and performed Eric Whitacre’s The Sacred Veil with the composer conducting. He is a regular substitute in the keyboard section of The Cleveland Orchestra and was pianist on its recent recording of Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin.

Overly has performed at both the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Ravinia Festival, and he was a three-time fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center. He participated in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Program, Franz-Schubert-Institut, and Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant and studied at the Musik und Kunstprivatuniversität der Stadt Wien, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Bob Jones University.

A passionate educator, Overly has also served on the collaborative piano faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was collaborative piano fellow at the Yale School of Music.