Daniele Squeo studied piano and choral conducting at the same time in his native Italy, before joining Germany in 2008 as an assistant to the Leipzig Nikolaikantor and studied orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt".

He worked with various European orchestras such as the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, the Jena Philharmonic, the orchestra of the theatre "Lirico Sperimentale" in Spoleto, the North Bohemian Philharmonic orchestra Teplice, Karlovy vary Symphony orchestra and the Nuremberg Symphony orchestra. From 2010 to 2013 he also headed the Academic Orchestra of the Tu Ilmenau as chief conductor. As part of a scholarship for the "1st international conductor Academy Ruhr – Stimme und Orchester" in 2010, he worked with the Bochum Symphony as well as the Essen Philharmonic, and he attended master classes of Steven Sloane, Sir Roger Norrington and Sylvain Cambreling. In October 2011 Daniele Squeo won the "XVIII competition for young conductors of the European Union" in Spoleto with Madame Butterfly. Other musical theatre performances followed, including La Traviata in Rome, Spoleto and Assisi. In January 2013, he won the 5th German operetta prize and is also a winner of the 4th Conducting Competition of the Mitteldeutsche Hochschulen in Leipzig with the MDR Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 he became a scholarship holder of the German music Council's conducting forum. In 2013/14 he was head of studies and Kapellmeister at the Theater Nordhausen.

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