Daniel E. Schwandt is the Cantor of Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park, and serves as the Cantor to the Seminary Community at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.  At LSTC he coordinates music and musicians for daily chapel services, conducts the LSTC Chapel Singers, and leads assembly singing for Wednesday services of Holy Communion.  He also collaborates with the Dean of the Chapel in overseeing the worship life of the seminary and is co-director of the Chapel Music Series. 

Schwandt received the Bachelor of music degree in church music from St. Olaf College in 1999 and went on to serve churches in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received his early keyboard training at the Lawrence University Arts Academy in Appleton, Wisconsin. He was the 1997 winner of the Ruth and Paul Manz organ scholarship competition, and in 1999 was an E. Power Biggs fellow of the Organ Historical Society. 

Daniel has presented organ recitals in Chicago, the Twin Cities area, and in Wisconsin. Together with his brother John, from the organ faculty at the University of Oklahoma and the American Organ Institute, he has presented church music workshops and hymn festivals for chapters of the American Guild of Organists. 

Daniel has also led worship and workshops for the Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the ELCA, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and Lutherans Concerned-North America. He has contributed to The Musicians Guide to Evangelical Lutheran Worship and Psalm Settings for the Church Year, both published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers.

Daniel is active in the Organ Historical Society, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, the Reed Organ Society, and the American Guild of Organists.