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Daniel Levin

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Daniel Levin is “one of the outstanding cellists working in the vanguard arena” (All About Jazz New York). Born in Burlington, Vermont, he began playing the cello at the age of six. In middle school, he also played alto and tenor saxophone also in jazz and concert bands. When he was 15 he began studies at The Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachussetts. After graduating, he attended the Mannes College of Music in New York to study with former Piatigorsky student Paul Tobias.

After one year at Mannes, Daniel moved back to the Boston area and, over the next several years, attended the New England Conservatory of Music, interspersed with periods of travelling around the country and abroad. In 2001, he graduated with a degree in Jazz Studies, having worked closely with Joe Maneri, Joe Morris, Hankus Netksy, John McNeil, and others.

Since then, Daniel has developed his own unique voice as a cellist, improviser, and composer. As Ed Hazell noted upon release of “Don't Go It Alone” (Daniel Levin Quartet, Riti 009), Levin’s first record as a leader, “Cellist Daniel Levin is a major new voice on his instrument and in improvised music” (The Boston Phoenix). Levin has gone on to produce five more Daniel Levin Quartet records, one trio records and his first solo record, “Inner Landscape”, to be released May 2011 on Clean Feed.