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Daniel Strange has performed on a variety of the world’s biggest stages from Carnegie Hall to NBC’s The Today Show as well as with critically acclaimed artists representing multiple genres including Jodi Benson, Susan Egan, Michael Feinstein, Ann Hampton Calloway, Jacob Collier, Robert Glasper, Madison Cunningham, Lawrence, Allen Stone, Wyclef Jean, Aaron Parks, folk legend Noel Paul Stookey, Tony award nominees Joshua Henry and Norm Lewis, and Tony award winners Lindsay Mendez and Sutton Foster. He is the pianist for Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble, hailed by the New York Times as the “Chamber orchestra of the 21st century, and has played in orchestra pits for the national touring companies of Wicked, Jersey Boys, Pippin, Les Miserables, West Side Story, Dreamgirls, Young Frankenstein, Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, and A Chorus Line. As a composer, Daniel has written, arranged, and orchestrated for numerous musical settings including pop, jazz, choral, and orchestral ensembles from all over the country.

Daniel is the Department Chair of the M.A.D.E. (Modern Artist Development and Entrepreneurship) degree as well as assistant professor of contemporary keyboard at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. He directs the Contemporary program's top ensemble, the American Music Ensemble. Under Daniel’s direction, AME has won 3 DownBeat Magazine awards for outstanding performance by a collegiate blues/pop/rock ensemble. He has presented clinics on original composition, solo piano performance and orchestration, keyboard comping in ensembles, Apple’s signature music performance application MainStage and spoken on numerous panels at many national music conferences including the Association of Popular Music Education, the NAMM Show, the College Music Society, the Jazz Education Network and the Intersection of Jazz and Classical Music Piano Festival and Competition. Daniel has received numerous accolades including being named a quarter finalist for the 2nd annual Grammy Music Educator Award, and currently serves as President on the New England Suzuki Institute’s Board of Directors.

Daniel is the director of the award-winning Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ Community Arts Program’s All-Star Jazz Ensemble, a three-time finalist in Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Competition and Festival. Under his leadership, the All-Star Jazz Ensemble released an album, With A Swing! as well as opened for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Count Basie Orchestra, Ken Peplowski, Catherine Russell, and famed Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen. Daniel can be heard on his album Life As I Hear It that features his original compositions and an all-star of lineup of musicians as well as on multiple albums including the Grammy nominated track "All My Tomorrows" from Jeremy Fox's With Love. He resides in Miami with his wife, violinist Ashley Liberty, along with their son and daughter, Harrison and Summer. Daniel and Ashley perform together under their artist duo name Hot Fiddle, and have released two albums together including Snapshot and a Holiday album titled Beneath the Star.

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Life as I Hear it: https://open.spotify.com/album/1f51gHAzwTTNfO96rIsWFz?trackId=2LzyUfJdRp3uqTrITBJXEY

Dan's Website: https://danielstrangemusic.com/

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