
Composer
Dan’s compositions have been heard throughout the United States, France, England, and Italy. He has been commissioned by the International Arts Educators Forum, Trio Solano, Farallon Quintet, Shipyard Trust for the Arts, Gold Coast Chamber Players, the Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco, Cecilia Ensemble, and several musician colleagues. In 2021 he received a grant from InterMusic SF to make a video of his composition “Ehrlichia,” Rhapsody in Discomfort #6, which is available to view on Youtube and brought catharsis to thousands of Lyme Disease victims. In 2022, he was awarded a Silver Medal in Composition by Global Music Awards for “Ehrlichia.” In 2023, he wrote an article about this experience for New Music USA, titled Rhapsody in Discomfort. His composition, An Animated Street in Autumn, was recently featured in The Strad. His compositions can be heard on his recent album, The Bow and the Brush (MSR Classics).

List of Works
In order of composition:
- Devil Went Up to Bern (String Quartet #4), commissioned by Maki Ishii Sowash and the Cecilia Ensemble
- Water Lilies (String Quartet #3) (after the painting by Claude Monet), commissioned by Julie Kim
- Tamayo (String Quartet #2) arranged from the String Trio
- The Magpie (String Quartet #1) (after the painting by Claude Monet)
- Tamayo (after a painting by Rufino Tamayo) for string trio
- Rhapsody in Discomfort #8 “Extolling the External,” (commissioned by International Arts Educators Forum) for piano, clarinet, violin and cello
- LeGato au Chocolat (after a painting by Cynthia Alvarez) for solo violin
- “Concert Stuck,” Rhapsody in Discomfort #8 for string quartet
- Ethereal Explorations (after the sculpture by Rebecca Fox, commissioned by SF Shipyard Gallery) for solo violin
- Hymn (after a drawing by Camille Pissarro, composed for the Stern Pissarro Gallery) for solo violin
- Perlmutter (after the painting Cattails on the Waterfront by Jennifer Perlmutter, commissioned by Gold Coast Chamber Players) for solo violin
- Monterey Sentinels (after the painting by Joaquin Turner) for solo violin
- Plop Squeak Music (commissioned by Bruce Chrisp and Gabrielle Wunsch) for violin and trombone
- Inevitable Entails (after the five-painting series by Beth Davila Waldman) for violin and cello
- ‘Ehrlichia,’ Rhapsody in Discomfort #6 (commissioned by Paul and Vicky Ehrlich) for string trio (violin, viola, cello)
- ‘Timeless,’ Rhapsody in Discomfort #5 (after the metronome sculpture series Seduced By Syncopation by Sean O’Donnell) for solo violin and acoustic metronomes
- Shipyard Artists Elegy for solo violin (commissioned by Shipyard Artists Trust for the streamed Socially Distanced Artists Series)
- An Animated Street in Autumn (after the painting by JF Raffaëlli) for solo violin
- Rhapsody in Discomfort #4 “The Lump in My Throat” for solo violin
- Rhapsody in Discomfort #3 ‘Covids “Я” Us’ for solo violin
- The War on Christmas for 2.5 Violins for two violins, a garbage violin, an axe, and optional whoopee cushions
- Nue aux Cheveux Roux- Hommage á Henner for violin and piano
- Chorales and Interludes for solo violin
- Are You Sure About This? for quintet (clarinet and string quartet)
- Rhapsody in Discomfort #2 ‘Where’s My Monet?’ for cello and two violins
- Interlace for two violins
- ’Borderline Phantasia,’ Rhapsody in Discomfort #1 for solo violin