Award-winning composer and pianist Daniel Kelly has performed with Joe Lovano, Michael Brecker, Don Byron, Dave Liebman, Bobby Sanabria, Harvie S, Lauryn Hill, John Zorn, Oliver Lake, Candido, the Bang on a Can All-Stars and many others. In addition to several CDs he has recorded as sideman, Daniel has recorded four CDs as a leader, including Duets with Ghosts, featuring his unique approach to electronic sound manipulation and sampler, and Portal, an improvised solo piano suite that arose from his ongoing series of improvised solo piano concerts, some of which were for audiences of 1000 people. His quartet is a recipient of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award. Daniel’s latest composition commissions include an evening-length piece titled Wounded Splendor, a multi-media work commissioned for the University of Maryland’s “Performance as Politic/Artist as Activist” 2009/10 season; a score for piano and choir for a new multi-media theatrical production of Sleeping Beauty premiering at the Brooklyn Performing Arts Center in March 2010; a co-written suite by the collective Works, for jazz quartet and saxophone legend Dave Liebman; and the feature film score The Legend of Johnson Roebling. Daniel has been a Lincoln Center Institute Repertory artist with David Gonzalez since 2002.