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Daniel Sullivan
concert organist
Appointed to the faculty of The Juilliard School in 2008, American organist Daniel Sullivan enjoys a dual career as a performer and teacher. As a performer, his work spans three categories: in addition to playing solo concerts, he is a founding member of both the New York Piano-Organ Duo and the Sullivan-Demers Two-Organ Duo. His debut album, a CD of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, was released in 2008 on the Raven label, and American Record Guide wrote that “if you like the Goldberg’s enough to buy more than one recording, this one should be on your must-have list.” Mr. Sullivan is regularly engaged as a concert artist across the United States, and his performances during the 2008-2009 season include venues in Jacksonville Beach (FL), Farmington Hills (MI), Prescott (AZ), Casper (WY), and Roanoke (VA) as well as Canadian engagements in Barrie (ON), Lacombe (AB) and at the Elora Music Festival (ON).
In addition to solo performing, Mr. Sullivan co-founded the New York Piano-Organ Duo with pianist Jason Cutmore. Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Cutmore recently commissioned a new work for this combination of instruments from composer Ron Yedidia through the generosity of the Hudson Valley Piano Club. Together they have concertized in Canada and the United States, including such well-known venues as Ontario’s Colours of Music Festival, Cincinnati’s Hyde Park United Methodist Church, and Finney Chapel at Oberlin College. The Duo seeks to perform the wide-ranging repertoire written for this unique combination of instruments. This music includes works by living composers as well as the great 19th and 20th century masters (such as Franck and Dupre), duo-keyboard pieces from the 18th century, and Baroque concertos.
Daniel Sullivan also collaborates with Isabelle Demers in transcribing music from the orchestral and operatic repertoire for duet performance on two organs played simultaneously. In 2007 he and Ms. Demers premiered their original double-organ transcription of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" to the enthusiastic delight of several audiences. During the 2008-2009 season, they introduced their arrangements of music from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet, Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, and the “Sinfonia” from Bach’s Wachet auf cantata. The Jacksonville AGO invited them to perform in October, 2008 for the AGO’s national “Organ Spectacular” celebration.
Mr. Sullivan’s performances have taken him to cities across the United States, including San Francisco, Albuquerque, Denver, Salt Lake City, Tucson, Seattle, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, St. Petersburg, and many venues in other states. Sullivan has been a featured soloist at New York City's Basically Bach Festival, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, and the White Mountain Musical Arts Annual Bach Festival in New Hampshire. He has performed in the United Kingdom in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Hexham, England.
As a teacher, Mr. Sullivan works with people of all ages. He teaches piano, organ and music theory privately in NYC and Westchester County, giving instruction to a retired doctor and a family of homeschooled children. At Juilliard, he was asked to design and implement the undergraduate organ literature course. At times, he is also asked to give masterclasses and informal talks/workshops at performances. Mr. Sullivan was homeschooled and raised in Wisconsin, and earned degrees and an artist diploma from Oberlin Conservatory, Yale University and The Juilliard School. His teachers have included Paul Jacobs, Thomas Murray and Haskell Thomson.
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