The baritone Daniel Ochoa has made a name for himself as an opera and concert singer thanks to his versatility and is in demand internationally.

In the current 2025/26 season, concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris, Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, the Laeiszhalle, Dresden's Frauenkirche, Leipzig's Thomaskirche and Cologne's Philharmonie are once again on the schedule. A tour with the Windsbach Boys' Choir will take Daniel Ochoa to the Rheingau Music Festival, among other places. He will be performing for the first time at the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth as part of a series of recitals. For performances of Carl Orff's “Carmina Burana” this season, the baritone has been engaged by the Berlin Philharmonie, the Isarphilharmonie and the Warsaw National Philharmonic.

Daniel Ochoa has worked with internationally renowned conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Helmuth Rilling, Paul McCreesh, Reinhard Goebel, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Hansjörg Albrecht, Ken-David Masur, Christoph Spering and Thomas Hengelbrock. He has performed with orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Hamburg, Nuremberg and Munich Symphony Orchestras, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Philharmonie Dresden and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as well as with original sound ensembles such as the Orchestra La Scintilla, Anima Eterna Brugge, the Handel Festival Orchestra Halle, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Lautten Compagney Berlin, the Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

His international opera and concert activities have taken him to the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Semperoper Dresden, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Hamburg State Opera, the Concertgebouw Brugge, the Seine Musicale Paris, the International House of Music and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the Hitomi Memorial Hall and the Bunka Kaikan Theatre in Tokyo, the Izumi Hall Osaka, the Kaohsiung Concert Hall Taiwan, the Bradley Symphony Center Milwaukee and the Linder Auditorium Johannesburg.
Daniel Ochoa, who was born in the GDR to a German mother and an Equatorial Guinean father, discovered his love of singing at the age of five in the children's radio choir in his home town of Leipzig. His vocal studies took him to three universities (Rostock, Leipzig, Berlin) and beyond with inspiring teachers such as Anthony Baldwin, Hans-Joachim Beyer, Matthias Goerne, Thomas Quasthoff and finally Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Each of these teachers encouraged Daniel in a unique way to humbly put his voice at the service of the music and the word - a maxim that he still strives for in every single performance.
Over the years, Daniel Ochoa has developed a broad repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary compositions, whereby, as a Leipzig native, he feels particularly committed to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is therefore in constant demand as a Bach interpreter with ensembles such as the Dresdner Kreuzchor, the Leipzig Thomanerchor, the Munich Bach Choir, the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg and the Gaechinger Cantorey.
After guest engagements as Don Giovanni, Rossini-Figaro and Ottokar (Freischütz) at independent theaters (Dresden, Hamburg) and various theaters (Altenburg/Gera, Bad Lauchstädt, Flensburg), Daniel Ochoa was a member of the Vienna Volksoper ensemble from 2012 to 2017 and sang roles such as Figaro and the Count of the Wildschütz, Barbiere, Giovanni, Marcello (La Bohème) and the baritone role in Carmina Burana in over 20 performances. During this time, his collaboration with directors such as Brigitte Fassbaender, Achim Freyer, Marco Arturo Marelli and Rolando Villazón provided particularly important inspiration.
The art song has always been close to Daniel Ochoa's heart because he appreciates the challenge of captivating his audience almost exclusively with vocal means from the first to the last moment and transporting them into the miniature worlds of lieder singing. Repeated first appearances as a lieder singer at the Schumann House in Leipzig were soon followed by recitals at various festivals (Mendelssohn Festival, Max Reger Festival) and finally at venues such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) and the Hamburg State Opera (Mahler's Rückert Lieder). Gregor Meyer's arrangement of Schubert's “Winterreise” for baritone, piano and mixed choir was recorded on CD to great acclaim.
More than 30 CDs, some of them award-winning, document Daniel Ochoa's artistic work.