Composer and teaching artist Daniel Levy’s unique creative perspective and
musical insight have energized workshops and classes for pre-K–12, college, and
graduate students, and faculty and administrators in the NYC area since 1988, in
association with Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, the Weill
Music Institute, the 92nd Street Y, the Harmony Program (El
Sistema in America), Symphony Space, New Jersey Performing Arts Center,
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Musicians for Harmony, Young Audiences New York, and the
Park Avenue Armory. His dynamic classroom presence and ability to collaborate
with classroom teachers have made him one of New York’s favorite teaching
artists.
Mr. Levy’s music for theater includes scores for more than 40 NYC and
regional productions with Manhattan Ensemble Theater, La MaMa, Dance Theater
Workshop, HERE Arts Center, BAX, New Dramatists, Cucaracha, the York Theater,
Shakespeare & Co., Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Imagination Stage,
Juilliard, and Fordham University Lincoln Center. His opera The Singing
won the prestigious Richard Rodgers Award in 1999. His recent full-length work includes
Laughing Pictures – A Hollywood Odyssey (a rock/R&B musical) and
The Martian Chronicles (a music theater piece for puppets and actors). Mr. Levy's music has received support from the Richard Rodgers Foundation, Loewe
Foundation, Henson Foundation, Harburg Foundation, The Hermitage, Jerome
Foundation, New Dramatists, Goethe Institute, Vanden Heuvel Foundation, and Meet
the Composer. Mr. Levy holds a bachelor’s degree from Miami University in Music
Composition and a master’s degree from NYU/Tisch in Musical Theater Writing.