Daniel Seyfried

Daniel is a flexible performer with broad interests including Debussy and early twentieth-century composers, Nikolai Kapustin and other jazz influenced classical composers, the classical era with a special interest in historical practice on the fortepiano.  He grew up in Boise, Idaho, where he developed passions for cross-country running, freestyle skiing, skateboarding, and (of course) music.  After finishing high school, his piano studies brought him to the East coast.  Daniel earned his D.M.A. in Piano Performance and a Cognate in Pedagogy from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 2017.   He works as a staff pianist at Duke University where he has the pleasure of working with some “great students and colleagues.”  (He says, if it’s any consolation, he likes the Tar Heels’ brand of basketball better than the Blue Devils’.)  Daniel misses family and big mountains every day, but he has a beautiful wife (Shihhan) and daughter who make him feel at home wherever he goes.