Daniel Szabo Quintet

Daniel Szabo is an LA-based performer-composer who has recorded & produced eight albums as a leader. He’s also worked on a great number of recordings and performed with such artists as Peter Erskine, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Kim Richmond, Bob Sheppard, Patrick Williams, Lionel Loueke or John Zorn. He has toured worldwide and won multiple awards, including the Grand Prize of the City of Paris at the International Martial Solal Jazz Piano Competition as well as the Montreux Jazz Piano Solo Contest in Switzerland. He regularly performs at major venues both in the US and Europe. His upcoming album will be released by Fuzzy Music in Early 2019. It was recorded at The Bridge Studio in Glendale, California, and was written for a unique instrumentation combining woodwind sextet with string quartet and jazz rhythm section. In “Visionary,” Szabo features an outstanding line-up of musicians and such as Sara Andon, Bob Sheppard, Kim Richmond, Edwin Livingston and Peter Erskine. Szabo composed, arranged and orchestrated all of the pieces and played the piano. The pieces were conducted by Timothy Williams. The style of this new repertoire shows a blend of jazz, classical and film music idioms. Szabo also composes music for theater, dance and film and teaches at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music.