Daniel Laubacher makes his home in Troinex (near Geneva), Switzerland. He received his B.A., M.A., Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) where he studied composition with Peter Racine Fricker and Emma Lou Diemer and conducing with Varujan Kojian. In addition, he studied with the Viennese composer Alfred Uhl at the Hochschule (now Universität) für Musik in Vienna.
Previous to moving to Switzerland in November 2005, Laubacher was the Head/Founder of the Danube Cultural Institute in Vienna (DCIV) which offers a diverse selection of adult education courses and programmes for kids during holiday periods around the year.
As a composer Laubacher writes songs for children, musicals, short operas, symphonic poems and musical narrations in a diversity of styles from popular to "serious". He makes a special effort to compose music which has distinct melodic and harmonic quality.
A certified and creative music educator, Daniel Laubacher has over a decade of experience working with children and young people between the ages of 4 and 18 in the international school environment (London, Kuwait, Vienna, Switzerland). He lectures a wide variety of music courses (i.e., Vienna composers, music appreciation, theory, counterpoint, survey of opera, conducting, etc.) regularly in the Vienna Study Abroad Programmes of a number of universities. He has set up music departments for international schools, founded orchestras and has organised and conducted dozens of performances from school productions to large benefit concerts.