Dan’s virtuosity and versatility are his core strengths as a performer and collaborator in the Toronto music scene. He performs regularly as an extra with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the National Ballet Orchestra, as well as working in the pit for Mirvish’s production of the Lion King. He is, however, most well known nationally for being a founding member of the TorQ Percussion Quartet. His work with TorQ has accounted for dozens of performances across Canada, the US, Germany, and Luxembourg, as well as four albums and several concerto commissions. Two of which are from JUNO Award-winning composers Dinuk Wijeratne and Nicole Lizée. 

Dan was awarded the jury prize “prix Domaine Forget” for his participation in the 2014 OSM solo competition, and in August 2017, performed Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to ten thousand people at Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada. 

An active composer, arranger, and music creator, Dan has written extensively for percussion, but has also written music for a few short films (The Pits by Shetu Modi and El Nazareno by Brandon Mills), choir, and was sound designer of Pleades Theatre’s presentation of Besbouss.

Dan can be heard both as a composer and performer on CBC, NAXOS, Centrediscs, TSO live, MTV, and Bedoint Records. He became an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre in 2014.

Dan studied at the University of Toronto and the Glenn Gould School of Music. He has also spent summers at the Tanglewood Institute and the Aspen School of Music.