Brooklyn-based composer, pianist, and conductor Dan Schlosberg’s music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, (le) poisson rouge, and David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption. Recent projects include his new musical The Counterfeit Opera (Little Island), which he composed and conducted; his opera The Extinctionist (Heartbeat Opera); compositions for Camino Real (Williamstown Theatre Festival); orchestrating/conducting The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (The New Group/Signature Theatre); arranging/conducting Anthony Roth Costanzo’s solo album Countertenor (Nonesuch); orchestrating/conducting Marriage of Figaro (Little Island); the score for Patrick Wang’s film A. Rimbaud; conducting Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond’s Only an Octave Apart; composing/music directing Jeremy O. Harris’s A Boy’s Company Presents.

Dan has collaborated with Angel Blue, Imani Winds, Anthony McGill, Ariana DeBose, Tony Kushner, Ben Stiller, and was the pianist for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and a featured soloist in Only an Octave Apart with the New York Philharmonic and NPR’s Tiny Desk. He has received the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards. Dan is the Music Director of Heartbeat Opera, and his work has been praised as “flat-out brilliant,” “the vision of a master sculptor,” (The New York Times) and “ingenious” (The Wall Street Journal).