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Daniel Stover (right) began playing the clarinet in the 6th grade band. Throughout junior high and high school, his love for music continued to grow, placing in the All-State Band his junior year. In high school, Daniel's aspirations to follow in the footsteps of his teacher, Chester Rowell, led him to begin to learn the saxophone. In college, he included the flute to his musical vocabulary, studying with Catherine LeGrand. Daniel began to pursue his dreams of being a woodwind doubler (someone who plays multiple instruments in pit orchestras for musicals). Throughout his college years, he continued to focus on his clarinet playing while working on his doubling and performing a recital nearly every semester. He graduated from Sam Houston State University with a degree in clarinet performance in 2004. In July 2008, just days before his twenty-eighth birthday, Daniel experienced a severe hemorrhagic stroke leaving him with hemiplegia on his left side. Due to this weakness, he lost his ability to play any of his instruments. Everything he had spent 17 years of his life working towards was taken away from him over night. Prior to his stroke, Daniel taught clarinet and saxophone private lessons in several north Houston school districts, performed in pit orchestras for musicals, and was in demand as a clarinetist for chamber music concerts.After winning a battle with Lymphoma, and beating the two-month prognosis, Daniel returned to teaching in a somewhat reduced capacity in October 2009.
In the search for a means to make music again with this newly acquired handicap, Daniel is having his Selmer Mark VII alto sax converted to the toggle-key mechanism by Jeff Stelling of Stelling Brass and Winds
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