Daniel Lessner
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Daniel Lessner is an American composer and virtuoso pianist currently based in Los Angeles.[citation needed]
Biography
Daniel Lessner began his piano studies at the age of four in Miami, Florida.[citation needed] He played his first recital at eleven, and by the age of eighteen he had won over a hundred local and national performance competitions.[citation needed] He entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York city on scholarship to study with the renowned teacher Adele Marcus, and while there won the Tchaikovsky Concerto Competition[citation needed] which he performed at Lincoln Center under the baton of Massimo Freccia.[citation needed] After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Juilliard, Mr. Lessner was chosen as a candidate for the school's doctoral program,[citation needed] and he remained there on faculty for two seasons after finishing his PHD.[citation needed]
Daniel has performed in both solo and orchestral concerts around the world in four continents,[citation needed] including performances in New York's Carnegie Hall, and The Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles where he played Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme by Paganini.[citation needed] He has performed the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3, the Franz Liszt piano arrangement of Richard Wagner's Tannhauser Overture, Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Bach's Goldberg Variations, and the French Suite No. 6.[citation needed] He can currently be heard in the Clio Award winning United Airlines advertising campaign, featuring his performances of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.[citation needed]
In addition to performing, Daniel composes music for film and television in Hollywood.[citation needed] His composition clients have included themes for Carsey Warner Television, ABC sports, HBO's Inside The NFL, ESPN, and the USA Network.[citation needed] In 2006, Mr. Lessner formed the music production and recording studio SKANDA MUSIC with fellow composer William Richter of the Berklee College of Music. Their work together has included film scores, broadcast game show themes for the NBA Phoenix Suns and MLB's Tampa Bay Rays, commercials, music for The Museum of Terror, and the History Channel series That's Impossible.[citation needed]
Daniel Lessner has worked as a producer and as an artist and Repertoire Representative for EMI Records.[citation needed] He has been a professor of piano at USC's Thornton School of Music.
Filmography (as Composer)
- 2009
- That's Impossible (TV Series)
- A Secret At Arrow Lake
- 2008
- That Which Is Within
- Columbus Day (additional music)
- 2006
- A.W.O.L.
- Close to Home Season 2 (TV additional music)