Daniel Goldblum
| Teaching Artist
Daniel is an artist and educator in Los Angeles, his hometown. As the co-artistic director of Five Skins he creates interdisciplinary productions, including live film scores for the Wende Museum of the Cold War, the American Cinematheque, and the Pico Union Project, and original films for the Sound of Silent Film Festival Chicago and the American Institute of Architects. His Bassoon Rap screened at the NYC Independent Film Festival.
As a Teaching Artist he works with Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, the L.A. Philharmonic’s El Sistema-modeled initiative, at their HOLA site, and with HOLA’s Intergenerational Orchestra. Over the summer he leads an interdisciplinary performance workshop at the Crescendo Summer Institute in Hungary, together with his partner Dominyka Šeibok. He was also the Woodwind Lab Director at Bard College Conservatory.
As a bassoonist he’s appeared with the Moritzburg, Sarasota and Bowdoin Music Festivals, the American Youth Symphony, The Orchestra Now, and the Neue Philharmonie München, with performances at Carnegie Hall, the Musikverein in Vienna, Herkulesaal in Munich, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
He completed his Masters of Music at the Manhattan School of Music with Kim Laskowski, Associate Principal of the New York Philharmonic, his Bachelors of Music at the University of Michigan with Dr. Jeffrey Lyman, certificate studies with Marc Goldberg at Bard, and non-degree studies with Marcelo Padilla at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.