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Here's his bio, with quotes from various reviews of his album, "Don't Go It Alone". You can hear samples of this album at AUM Fidelity records.
And here's a list of his upcoming gigs.
He can be contacted at:
203-980-9968, or by email, at lubin54321@yahoo.com
Daniel Levin was born in 1974 in Burlington, Vermont. He began playing the cello at age six, and studied classical music intensively through adolescence. During this period he attended the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Mannes College of Music, and the New England Conservatory of Music. A chance experience improvising with a dancer at the New Arts Festival in Fort Meyers, Florida in the summer of 1993 inspired him to alter his view of himself as a musician: not as an interpreter of the works of early European masters, but as a composer and improviser, who would create his own music, interpreting his experience of the world around him.
Since then, he has had opportunities to work with many major improvisers and composers in the creative music world: Mark Dresser, Joe Morris, Rob Brown, Joe & Mat Maneri, Tim Berne, J.D. Parran, Warren Smith, Satoshi Takeishi, Bhob Rainey, Tom Rainey, Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, and many others. Venues in which he has performed include The New Orleans Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Festival (NYC), XM Satellite Radio, WGBH FM (Boston), The Knitting Factory (NYC), Tonic (NYC), CBGB's Gallery (NYC), The Brecht Forum (NYC), Cornelia Street Cafe (NYC), Weill Recital Hall (NYC), Jordan Hall (Boston), Gardner Museum (Boston), Zeitgeist Gallery (Boston), and The Middle East (Boston).
Daniel has performed professionally in several other genres including: Klezmer music with Hankus Netsky, contemporary compositions for solo cello such as Joe Maneri's microtonal Sharafuddin bYah-Yah Maneri Makhdum Ul-Mulk, and large ensemble pieces, including Lou Harrison's Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra with the NYC-based Alarm Will Sound. His recorded work includes Enter the Continent (Masashi Harada Condanction Ensemble) on EMANEM, and, as a leader, Don't Go it Alone (Daniel Levin Quartet) on Riti Records. Daniel lives in New Haven, CT where he is the founder and director of the music department at Amistad Academy, a public charter school.
"The quartet's tonal colors -- ringing vibes, burnished brass, and sliding strings -- and the sparse, chamber music demeanor of the compositions...forge a distinctive, unified conception around Levin's musical and emotional points of view [that] is memorable in its own right."
--Art Lange, EPulse! Magazine
"Levin and company listen intently to one another; they react with razor-sharp keenness."
--Christian Carey, Splendid Magazine
"In a word, the scope of the music is wide, the focus sharp, and the playing inspired."
--James Beaudreau, Signal To Noise Magazine
"There are CDs that knock you out...and CDs that sneak up and surprise you, and this release by Levin is one of them."
--John Chacona, One Final Note Magazine
"Elements of European improv and classical music are part of his vocabulary, but his aesthetic rests primarily in the jazz tradition developed over the past half-century, with swinging rhythms, structured freedom, and blues-informed extended techniques. His brooding style calls to mind the soulfulness and muscle of a tenor sax more than the pretty decorum of chamber music.
--Ed Hazell, The Boston Phoenix
"Levin has his technique down pat, yet in his compositions and playing is also able to innovate."
--Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly Magazine
"Levin has a sound that ranges from subtle and understated to aggressive; with admirable technique as a performer and a compositional concept that blends structure with freewheeling exploration, he deserves to have his name added to the short list of cellists who are making a mark in improvisational music."
--John Kelman, All About Jazz Magazine
"Someone to keep an ear cocked towards."
--Derek Taylor, Dusted Magazine
March 20
@Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA 9:30pm
Duo with Steve Lantner, piano
March 28
@Downtown Music Gallery, NYC 7pm
solo performance
April 3
@Blackstone Library, Branford, CT 8pm
Daniel Levin Quartet with
Dave Ballou, cornet
Matt Moran, vibes
Joe Morris, bass
April 15
@Freezone, NYC 8pm
Daniel Levin Quartet with
Dave Ballou, cornet
Matt Moran, vibes
Joe Morris, bass
May 1
@Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA 9:30pm
Daniel Levin Quartet with
Dave Ballou, cornet
Matt Moran, vibes
Joe Morris, bass
May 15
@Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA 9:30pm
solo performance and trio with
James Carson, piano
Croix Galipault, drums
June 5
@Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA 9:30pm
Amelia Hollander Ensemble
June 6
@CBGB's Gallery, NYC 8pm
Daniel Levin Quartet with
Dave Ballou, cornet
Matt Moran, vibes
Joe Morris, bass
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