Background
Dan Tepfer grew up in Paris, France in a musical and scientific family.
music educator musician pianist
Dan Tepfer grew up in Paris, France in a musical and scientific family.
University of Edinburgh.
He is best known for his 2011 album Goldberg Variations/Variations. He received a bachelor"s degree in astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh and a master"s degree in jazz piano performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he works as a pianist and composer.
He tours around the world, with frequent appearances in Europe in particular.
Since 2009, he has released a series of critically acclaimed recordings on Sunnyside Records, working in trio, duo and solo formats. He is also known since 2007 as one of the most frequent collaborators of jazz icon Lee Konitz.
2006: Montreux Jazz Festival Bösendorfer Solo Piano Competition, First Prize and Audience Prize.
2006: Montreux Jazz Festival Bösendorfer Solo Piano Competition, First Prize and Audience Prize 2007: American Pianists Association Jazz Piano Competition, First Prize, Cole Porter Fellowship 2011: CHOC Jazz Magazine (France) for "Goldberg Variations / Variations" 2011 - 2013: Rising Star Pianist, Downbeat Magazine 2012 - 2013: Rising Star Pianist, JazzTimes 2014: American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship.
