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…
