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Mikel Kuehn, director

Guitarist Daniel Lippel, called an “exciting soloist” (New York Times) and “precise and sensitive” (Boston Globe) has a multi-faceted career as a performer, recording artist, and label owner. He has premiered more than one hundred solo and chamber works, many written for him, recording several on his label, New Focus Recordings. Recent performance highlights include recitals at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina), Boston Conservatory of Music, Le Poisson Rouge (NY), Sinus Ton Festival (Germany), National University of Colombia (Bogota), and the New York, Cleveland and Triangle Classical Guitar Societies, and chamber performances on the Mostly Mozart Festival, Ojai Festival, Ottawa Chamber Festival, Adelaide Festival (Australia), Aspekte Festival (Salzburg), Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, and Kunst Universitaet Graz (Austria). Lippel has been a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
since 2006 and counter)induction since 2019, as well as a guest with many other ensembles. He has worked closely with many eminent composers including Mario Davidovsky, Nils Vigeland, and John Zorn, and collaborated with several prominent mid-career composers, including Dai Fujikura, Tyshawn Sorey, Reiko Fueting, Du Yun, Mikel Kuehn, Christopher Trapani, Ken Ueno, and Wang Lu. In addition to New Focus, he appears on recordings on several other labels including Kairos, Bridge, Innova, Sono Luminus, Sony Japan, Albany, Tzadik, Wergo, and New World, and as a producer on several New Focus releases. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music studying with David Starobin, writing his dissertation on the guitar works of Mario Davidovsky.