Dan Marschak | Composer | Pianist | Educator
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Dan Marschak is an Oakland-born composer, jazz pianist and educator. He is a founding member of the composers collective LA Signal Lab: “Four young and versatile performer-composer new-music Trekkies who cross genres with the graceful ease of the USS Enterprise traversing galaxies.“ (Mark Swed, LA Times)
Recent highlights include a performance at LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight concert in 2017, collaborations with established ensembles HOCKET and Aperture Duo, a residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, an upcoming album “Water and Power”, and a collaborative project URSA: an interstellar cantata, which premiered in 2019 to critical acclaim at Tuesdays @ MonkSpace and in 2020 at the Hot Air Music Festival. His 2013 orchestra work “Two Rivers” was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, and was workshopped and performed by the La Jolla Symphony under the direction of Steven Schick…

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NEWS

05 Oct LASL’s New Album “Water and Power”

L.A. Signal Lab is very excited about our upcoming release of WATER and POWER on Orenda Records! It will be available on bandcamp and all major digital stores and streaming services on October 14, and features the incredible musicians of HOCKET who perform my "Prelude...

21 Aug All-Steinway School Gala and Fundraiser

On Saturday, September 17th, 6 pm-9 pm at Las Positas College Mertes Center for the Performing Arts, we celebrate our new All-Steinway School designation! Featuring performances by LPC faculty (including yours truly), alumni, current students, and a remote Spirio performance by Grammy Winner Bill Charlap!...

17 Sep LA Times Review!

We premiered  “URSA: an interstellar cantata” at Tuesdays at Monkspace last week, and it was an incredible experience. Here's a nice review from LA Times Classical Music Critic Mark Swed! https://tinyurl.com/y37mx68n ...

31 Jul URSA premiere at Monk Space in LA

LA Signal Lab has been working hard on a collaborative project for the past 3 years. We're so excited that it's finally going to be premiered. Here's a blurb about the project: An imagined night sky of words and music: LA Signal Lab presents URSA,...

31 Jul Time Stops

I MD'd, played piano, rhodes, and organ on vocalist Kalil Wilson's new album. Featuring several co-compositions between myself and Kalil. Check it out at https://kalilwilson.bandcamp.com/album/time-stops ...

12 Nov LA Phil!

We're honored to be a part of this year's Noon2Midnight @ LA Phil on November 18th! So much incredible music will be made by some of the best new music ensembles around. Tickets are just $10! Hope to see you there! https://www.laphil.com/tickets/noon-to-midnight...

26 Jan LA Signal Lab Bay Area shows

January 29th-30th composers collective LA Signal Lab will perform "coalesce" and 4 other original works. January 29th at Las Positas College Black Box Theater at 7pm (Article from The Independent). On January 30th, we perform at the Center for New Music in SF at 8pm...

16 May LA Signal Lab Launch!

For the past 5 months, I've had the pleasure of working on a new piece "coalesce", that calls into question the idea of genre. It freely mixes elements of "classical", "jazz", "avant-garde". The piece was written for a brand new composer/performer collective called LA Signal Lab, co-founded...