Daniel Inbal studied piano with David Wilde at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and orchestral conducting with Leopold Hager at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Inbal achieved his first successes as a conductor in 2003 with the Prussian Chamber Orchestra, where he served as Chief Conductor for three years. During this period, he was also assistant conductor to his former teacher Leopold Hager at the Volksoper Wien and began a long-standing relationship as a guest conductor with the Staatsorchester Braunschweig. Following his time at the Volksoper, Inbal moved from Vienna to Bern, where he became First Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater. From 2010 to 2025, he served as First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at Theater Osnabrück.

Daniel Inbal has been invited to conduct orchestras around the world, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra and Orchestra Nazionale della RAI. As an opera conductor, he has enjoyed numerous successes at houses including the Volksoper Wien (Die Lustige Witwe, Der Graf von Luxemburg), Staatstheater Braunschweig (Lucia di Lammermoor, L’incoronazione di Poppea), Stadttheater Bern (Madama Butterfly, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Le nozze di Figaro, My Fair Lady, Falstaff, La Traviata, Rigoletto), Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg (Ariadne auf Naxos), the Israeli Opera (Madama Butterfly) and Theater Lübeck (Thaïs).

In 2010, Inbal conducted the orchestra of the Flemish Opera in Antwerp in the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s The Rage of Life. In 2013, he participated in Tatjana Gürbaca’s new production of Parsifal, which was named “Production of the Year” by Opernwelt that same year and received the prestigious International Opera Award for “Best Wagner Anniversary Production” in 2014. Daniel Inbal subsequently returned to Flanders for Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s choreography Fall, set to music by Arvo Pärt, and for Benjamin Millepied’s Bach Studies. He collaborated with Cherkaoui again in 2019 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in the ballet programme Minimal Maximal. In 2026, he conducted the children’s opera Offenbachs Erzählungen at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Among his numerous productions at Theater Osnabrück were the world premieres of Nadar Mashayekhi’s Neda – Der Ruf, Sidney Corbett’s San Paolo, based on an unrealised screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Kinan Azmeh’s Songs for Days to Come, as well as the staged German premiere of Dvořák’s Vanda. He also conducted Walter Braunfels’ Die Vögel, Busoni’s Doktor Faust and Magnard’s Guercoeur.

Daniel Inbal has been General Music Director of Theater Pforzheim and the Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim since the 2025/26 season.

His innovative approach to concert programming, bringing contemporary music shaped by diverse cultural influences into a compelling dialogue with the central masterpieces of the Classical and Romantic orchestral canon, led to a significant increase in audience numbers in his very first season.