Daniel lippel                            GUITARIST

Guitarist Daniel Lippel is active as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. Recent performing highlights include a solo tour of Germany, as well as recitals at the Cleveland Institute of Music�s Guitar Weekend festival, Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society, Istanbul�s Gitar Caf�, at Bowdoin College in Maine, and at the University of Wisconsin at Eau-Claire. As a chamber musician, Lippel has performed on the Macau International Music Festival in China, the Musica Nova Festival in Helsinki, the Darmstadt Festival of New Music in Germany, and Lincoln Center�s Mostly Mozart Festival at Alice Tully Hall. In October of 2009, he played the banjo concertino part in the American Premiere of H.K. Gruber�s Busking with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Other notable appearances include Gyorgy Kurtag�s Grabstein fur Stephan for guitar and orchestra with ICE at the grand opening of EMPAC in Troy, N.Y., chamber performances at the Andy Warhol Museum, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie�s Zankel and Weill Halls, and the Monadnock, Cooperstown, Greenwich, and Manchester chamber music festivals. His 2011-2012 season includes solo engagements in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Albuquerque, and his home town of New York, and chamber music performances in Cologne (Germany),  Brazil, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

A strong interest in contemporary music has led to the opportunity to work with several eminent composers including Mario Daviovsky, Elliott Carter, Augusta Read Thomas, Philippe Manoury, Nils Vigeland, and Ursula Mamlok. He is committed to close collaboration with young and emerging composers as well, having commissioned and premiered over fifty new solo and ensemble works, several of which he has released on recording. Lippel is founder and artistic director of New Focus Recordings, an independent label specializing in contemporary classical music. His five recordings on this label have garnered him critical acclaim from such publications as Gramophone, American Record Guide, Classical Guitar, and New Music Box. He has also recorded for the Bridge, Albany, and Centaur labels.

Lippel performs in non-classical contexts as well, and has been a member of Mice Parade, a Fat Cat recording artist, since 2004. With Mice Parade, Lippel has toured four continents and performed on the Sydney Festival (Austrailia), Fuji Rock Festival (Japan), and Bestival (England) and recorded four albums.

As an educator, Lippel strives to demystify the contemporary repertoire for guitarists, and the guitar for composers, and has given guitar master classes at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin, Cleveland Institute of Music, Syracuse University, Northern Illinois University, and Bowling Green State University and presentations to composition departments at the University of Texas at Austin, University of California at Davis, Columbia College (Chicago), New York University, University of North Texas, and Manhattan School of Music. Lippel received his Doctoral degree in guitar performance from the Manhattan School of Music under the guidance of David Starobin.        

January 22 Salon Concert Program