Danielle completed her doctorate at Jesus College, Cambridge, under the supervision of Dr Benjamin Walton. Between 2005 and 2009 she completed her BA and MPhil degrees, also at Jesus College.
Danielle's research explores the interaction between Jewish music and its wider contexts, with a focus on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain. Her work on the Anglo-Jewish liturgical music sung in and published for Victorian synagogues has been heard on BBC Radio 3 (‘Symphony of Psalms’, Easter Sunday Feature 2018), and was the subject of a video documentary for the Woolf Institute’s ‘Living in Harmony’ project in April 2018. She has given numerous presentations, lecture-recitals and conference papers, including the inaugural lecture of the Jewish Historical Society of England’s Cambridge branch. Her journal article 'Tracing Jewish Music beyond the Synagogue: Charles Garland Verrinder's "Hear my cry O God"', was published in Nineteenth-Century Music Review (CUP) in August 2020. Another article, co-written with Professor Susan Wollenberg, University of Oxford, is published in Ad Parnassum Studies 12 (2020).
Danielle is the Musical Director of Kol Echad, Cambridge’s Hebrew choir which performs a variety of liturgical, folk and concert repertoire in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino. Kol Echad regularly participates in events to promote Jewish-Christian relations through the sharing of musical heritage, including performances at Peterborough Cathedral, Michaelhouse Chapel, Corpus Christi and Churchill Colleges, and at Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue. Danielle has also sung in and conducted the choir at Edgware and District (now Edgware and Hendon) Reform Synagogue since 2000, where she first found the inspiration for her academic work.
