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His music is shaped by the unique perspective of quitting a six-figure job; moving to a remote village in Northern Thailand (of all places) to study jazz; relocating to the city and joining a thriving Thai jazz co-operative; eventually returning to the U.S. on scholarship to Berklee; completing his master’s degree at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, studying with artists including Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, George Garzone, John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Liebman, Kenny Werner, and others; and finally moving to New York City in 2022, where he now lives and performs.
Beyond New York City, Dan has performed widely, with recent tours in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica, and he has shared the stage with artists including Danilo Perez, Kenny Werner, Andy Akiho, Linda May Han Oh, Kenneth Salters, Vicky Chow, Ralph Thomas, Pharadon “Opor” Phonamnuai, Uriel Barthelemi, R&B singer Allen Stone, and singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer. His first record as a co-leader — a collaboration by his long-standing group Blood Meridian and Brazilian singer and guitarist Raphael Grumser — is slated for release in mid-2026, both independently and as the soundtrack to an upcoming documentary on Brazilian artist and filmmaker Jorge O Mouraõ.
Alongside performing, interactive and generative composition have become central to his work. Through custom-built, sensor- and computer-driven systems, Dan creates spaces in which movement becomes music; voices enter or recede, harmonic regions shift, and rhythmic cycles accelerate or suspend in response to the proximity, density, and motion of those nearby. His first large-scale installation — set to debut in Asia in early 2026 — places participants inside a living score they both create and navigate, shaping music as it unfolds in real time.
Dan is also a prolific writer. His work has been published by RosettaBooks, appeared in business journals including Deloitte Review, and has been cited by columnist Thomas Friedman in the New York Times. Much of this draws on a narrowly escaped past career as a strategy consultant, where he advised executives across industries on emerging issues in media, business, and technology.
Drawing on this intersection, Dan also teaches New Media Economics at Berklee College of Music, a course examining how technology has reshaped the relationship between artists and audiences in the 21st century.
Dan holds a M.M. in Contemporary Performance from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in Boston, a Diploma in Performance from Berklee College of Music, and a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
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