Daniel Ian Smith has been an active performer and educator for the last 20 years. He is an Assistant Professor at the acclaimed Berklee College of Music in Boston where he has taught for over 12 years. He is in demand as a clinician, guest soloist, and private teacher and has performed throughout the United States, Japan, Germany, and England. He currently leads several of his own ensembles including:
A Collective Directive
TREE-OH
The New World Jazz Composers Octet
The Big and Phat Jazz Orchestra
As the recipient of the prestigious Uchida Fellowship in 1996 (from the Japan Foundation), Mr. Smith spent 6 months performing and touring around Japan and studying Japanese traditional music and culture. He was the featured soloist at the Yokohama Port Festival, Yokohama, Japan in June of 1996. He is the founder/artistic director of the Jazz in the Sanctuary Concert Series in Brookline, MA which has produced over 80 concerts in the last 10 years featuring the likes of Paul Bley, Marty Ehrlich, Joel Harrison, Bob Moses, Lewis Porter, Steve Slagle, Jack Walrath, Tim Ray, Bob Gullotti, Mick Goodrick and many others. Daniel currently endorses Alexander Superial reeds.
Performances with
Arturo Sandoval, Claudio Roditi, Maria Schneider, Jack Walrath, John Lewis, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Greg Abate, Steve Gadd, Abe Laboriel, Gloria Estefan, Jamey Haddad, Rob Mounsey, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Johnny Mathis, The Boston Philharmonic under Benjamin Zander, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra under Carl St. Clair, Patti Lupone, Christine Andreas, Rebecca Paris, The Temptations, The O’Jays, Michael Abene, Bruce Gertz, Joel Harrison, Michele Rosewoman, Composers in Red Sneakers, Fred Ho, Lewis Porter, Marty Ehrlich, George Masso, Harold Jones, Cecil Bridgewater, Gary Valente, Bill Pierce, Ken Filliano, Bobby Shew, Clay Osborne, Pedro Ito, Phil Wilson, Steve Marcus, Bob Kaufmann, Shawnn Monteiro, Gray Sargent, Artie Shaw Orchestra, John Pierce, Tony Lee, Dave Green, Clark Tracy, Premiere of Irene’s Riff by Jon Lipsky for Musician and Actress, Artie Cabral, Steve Marvin, Akikazu Nakamura, Kazumi Watanabe, Jun Saito, Kenwood Dennard, Jyoji Sawada, Fernando Huergo, Kosei Uchida, Hiro Takada, Freedom Jazz Spirits (Kansai, Japan), Nando Michelin, John Allmark Jazz Orchestra, Harry James Orchestra, Joe Georgianni, Joe Bargar, Arthur Welwood, Beth Denisch, Barbara Kolb, Tibor Pusztai, Julius Williams, Sergio Brandao and Manga Rosa, Egui Castirillo, Oscar Stagnaro, Mark Walker, Alain Mallet, Sheila Jordan, Boston Saxophone Quartet (premiere of Don Hagar’s Blues Control, written for Daniel Ian Smith), Steve Grismore, Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood, George Garzone, Steve Slagle, Tim Ray, Bobby Shew, ALEA III, NuClassix Composers Forum, New England Conservatory Contemporary Music Ensemble, Berklee College of Music Faculty Ensemble, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, JCA Saxophone Quartet, Kenny Hadley Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, Duke Belaire Big Band, The Big Idea Big Band, New England Conservatory Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra, the Bebop Guitars, Soul Kitchen, Decahedron.
