Buck McDaniel is a New York-based composer, conductor and keyboardist originally from Columbia, Mississippi. His music draws on American minimalism and sacred traditions, with projects spanning orchestral writing, chamber music, theatre and site-specific performance. His work has been heard on Saturday Night Live, BBC Radio 3 and The Moth Radio Hour. The Chelsea Preludes, written for cellist Julia Henderson and harpist Sonia Bize, forms part of his recorded work with Etymology.