Daniel Lippel, guitarist
Guitarist Daniel Lippel's activities as a soloist, chamber musician, and with non-classical ensembles have resulted in performances throughout North America and Europe, as well as in Japan, Taiwan, Argentina, and Australia.
Lippel’s 2008-2009 season included a solo recital tour in Germany as well as recitals in Istanbul, New York, and Cleveland, and chamber music performances on the Musica Nova Festival in Helsinki, Finland and on Bowling Green State University’s MACCM New Music Festival.
Highlights of the 2009-2010 season will be appearances with ICE on the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, concerts with quartet Flexible Music on the Macau International Music Festival in China and at the Kennedy Center, and solo concerts for the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society and Guitars International Series at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Lippel's recordings have garnered him critical acclaim from Gramophone, American Record Guide, Guitar Review, Music Web International, and several other publications. He is the co-founder and director of New Focus Recordings, an independent record label based in New York. Lippel has given guitar masterclasses at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin, Cleveland Institute of Music, Northern Illinois University, and Bowling Green State University and guest lecture 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. His performances have been broadcast on several radio stations including KCRW Santa Monica, WNYC and WQXR New York, and WCLV Cleveland, and syndicated internationally by WGBH’s Art of the States.
One of the aspects of his career that Dan finds the most gratifying is close collaboration with composers, and he has commissioned, premiered and recorded over fifty solo and chamber works by established and emerging composers. Lippel has toured and recorded extensively with Fat Cat Records' indie rock band Mice Parade. Mr. Lippel was on faculty teaching classical guitar at Bowling Green State University from 1999-2001. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, under the guidance of David Starobin
He can be found on the web at www.danlippel.com. Dan joined ICE in 2005.
