…was born In Austria in 1974 and studied Classical Guitar, Jazz and music education at the Anton Bruckner University Linz.

1998 he won 1st prize at the International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition of the Open Strings Guitar Festival in Osnabrück / Germany.

1999 followed a full solo performance at the same festival with his own compositions and reviews in leading German Fingerstyle magazine Akustik Gitarre as well as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

2000 release of the first solo CD „Constant Changing“ at the label MICA Austria.

The years after making a first step in the solo guitar scene, Oman wanted to widen his horizon and started an intense study of historical plucked instruments on Baroque Guitar and Colascione (17th century Italian Basslute) followed by concerts and international tours with Ensembles Austrian Baroque Company and Ars Antiqua Austria throughout Europe and the Middle East as a sideman and sometimes soloist with appearances at Early Music Festival Azzores, Bozar Music Brüssel, International Music Festival Istanbul, Festival Les Bernadin Paris, Vienna Guitar Festival, Enescu Festival Bukarest, Jerusalem Music Festival, int. Music Festival Muscat, Salzburger Festspiele etc.

More than 40 CD-Productions as an ensemble musician for Sony BMG, Harmonia Mundi, Arcana and Outthere Music as well as radio broadcast and TV performances for WDR, NDR-Das Alte Werk, ORF, Television Kosovo and Bukarest National TV.

In the field of Contemporary and Avantgarde music Oman played premiere performances of Austrian Composers Gerald Resch, Rudolf Jungwirth and A.F. Kropfreiter at Festivals and for ORF radio broadcast.

In 2008 composition of a soundtrack along the Russian silent movie ZEMLYA, for electric guitar, electronics and medieval organ, which was premiered and commissioned at the Espazzos Sonoros Festival in Spain.

In recent years Oman  participated in a crossover quintet called Austrian Art Gang, performing an improvised version of Bachs late works Kunst der Fuge and Musikalisches Opfer, projects documented as CD productions with Gramola Vienna.

Since 2019 he performs regularly in a newly formed trio setting of lutes, performing Austrian Baroque Music on instruments which are reconstructed exactly in size and measurements of the 17th century Austrian Baroque period. The group is part of Ars Antiqua Austria. While performing regularly in this setting, the work is also documented on several CD’s at the label Pan Classics.

2025 Daniel Oman won 1st prize at the international Aalborg Guitar Festival Composers Competition in Denmark for his solo guitar work Waltzing Leaves.

Beside concert activities and teaching Oman always had a great interest in composing contemporary music for solo guitar, which led to a cooperation with Europe’s leading editor for guitar music, the Bergmann Edition.