Eighteen-year-old Horn player Yuxuan (Daniel) Ma is originally from Beijing, China, and moved to the United States when he was nine.

Daniel is in the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and Honors Wind Quintet at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. In 2024, he won second place in the annual New England Conservatory Preparatory School Concerto Competition Category C. In 2023, he also won third place in the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. In the past, he did programs like the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Young Artist Orchestra in 2022, and the following year, he did the woodwind quintet workshop coached by the famous composer and flutist Valery Coleman.

He attends Walnut Hill School for the Arts and studies with the former second horn of the Cleveland Orchestra, Eli Epstein, at New England Conservatory Preparatory School.