Educator and woodwind musician Dan Liptak is a equally versed in Jazz, classical and contemporary music, Dan has toured throughout Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States. Recent performances have included playing with the Middlebury Opera
Company, Eleva Chamber Players, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and TURNmusic.
A love for new and challenging music has lead to either commissioning or playing in dozens of premieres of new works for solo clarinet, concerto and chamber music by composers Elizabeth Reid, Kyle Saulnier, Judd Greenstein, Kenji Bunch, Erik Nielsen, Robert Carl, Jessica Rudman, Erberk Eryilmaz and many others.
An active non-traditional musician, Dan led the 13 piece contemporary jazz group, APEX Ensemble from 2013 to 2016, performing instrumental music blending the lines between jazz, rock, funk, world music and chamber music. They sold out concerts at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Higher Ground and Arts Riot. In addition to APEX, Dan also performs with new music ensemble TURNmusic, the Big Bang Bhangra Brass Band and the Saturn People Sound Collective.
Dan lives in Moretown with his wife Kate, and their three sons.
Nicola Cannizzaro is a percussionist living in his native Vermont. He is a member of many area ensembles including the Vermont Symphony, Burlington Chamber Orchestra, TURNmusic (a modern chamber group of which he is an original founding
member), APEX Ensemble-a 13 piece Jazz/funk collective, and he performs with many various groups in the area.
As a timpanist Nicola studied with Roland Kohloff (New York Philharmonic) at the Juilliard School and Gerald Carlyss (Philadelphia Orchestra) at Indiana University.
He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Springfield Symphony, Portland Symphony, Harrisburg Symphony, Vermont Symphony, OPERA NORTH, Chamber Orchestra of New York, Da Capo Opera, Bronx Opera, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas and the Berkshire Choral Festival Orchestra. He has
recorded with Itzhak Perlman, Absolute Ensemble and the Vermont Symphony. He is the Timpani intensive teacher for the Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar.
Before moving to Vermont in 2012, Nic lived in New York City where he was a freelance percussionist performing with many Broadway shows such as The Lion King (which he toured with for four years as first percussion), In The Heights, West
Side Story, and Phantom of the Opera and many regional theater productions off Broadway.
As an educator Nicola carries a full studio of private students as well as teaching in the schools around Vermont teaching masterclasses and private lessons to many area percussionists. He teaches all styles of percussion from classical percussion and timpani to drumset and world percussion. Nicola holds a BM from Indiana University and an MM from the Juilliard School.
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