Daniel Paul Horn, Piano

Biography

Pianist Daniel Paul Horn gives recitals throughout North America, and has appeared with various Midwestern orchestras. An avid chamber musician, he regularly collaborates with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has played in Bermuda and at the Beijing Modern Music Festival with the MasterWorks Ensemble, and has performed with the Ying Quartet, the Rembrandt Chamber Players, cellist Stephen Balderston, pianist Alexander Djordjevic, and violinist John Dalley. He works with noted singers, including Michelle Areyzaga, Carolyn Hart, Sylvia McNair, Denise Gamez, Gerard Sundberg, Stephen Morscheck, and has premiered compositions of George Arasimowicz, Jacob Bancks, David M. Gordon, Neal Harnly, Patrick Kavanaugh, Daniel Kellogg, and Max Raimi. As an early keyboardist, he played harpsichord under the baton of John Nelson, and in 1997 recorded the critically praised disc Wanderings for Titanic Records on a Graf fortepiano. Other CDs include Sehnsucht: Music of Robert Schumann, and discs for the Centaur label with cellist Donald Moline, and for the Canadian Music Centre with soprano Carolyn Hart. A Detroit native, Horn studied at Peabody and Juilliard, where he earned his doctorate. He has also coached with Jerome Lowenthal, Ann Schein, Joseph Bloch, and Menahem Pressler. Currently Professor of Piano and Chair of Keyboard Studies at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, he has served as a faculty artist at the Sewanee, Adamant, and MasterWorks festivals.