DAN KNIGHT

Steinway Artist, Jazz Pianist, Composer, Improviser and Educator

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Welcome to the world of Dan Knight.

 

As one of the world’s finest improvising musicians, he is one of the acknowledged master pianists of his generation.   He’s earned a worldwide reputation as a performer whose wit, personality and peerless musicianship fills concert halls and jazz clubs alike.  

 

Equally adept on the concert stage in the field of “modern” classical music and in the clubs and festival halls of the world of jazz, he has performed in some of the world’s finest venues and most prestigious music festivals.  

 

He teaches and performs in a style he calls “painting with sound.”   This style is best displayed in his composition “The Walt Whitman Suite,” which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music.

 

His “modern” classical compositions range from solo piano to symphonic pieces.   They are frequently inspired by masterworks of visual art, and often include both thorough composition and improvisation in a seamless synthesis of creativity, spontaneity and structure.

 

As a jazz musician and composer he has appeared across the United States and Europe in performances which include an unprecedented three consecutive performances in the Acoustic Concerts Series of the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival.  

 

He is in demand internationally as a guest lecturer and clinician, composer, solo pianist and leader of his own musical ensembles in some of the most prestigious clubs, concert halls, museums of art, music festivals and educational institutions in the world.   As a composer, pianist and improviser, Dan Knight continues to extend the boundaries of style and composition in his impassioned performances of classical music, jazz and free improvisation.