Daniel Sullivan, a musician with the rare distinction of having earned both the Artist Diploma and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School, practices a wide-ranging career as a performer and teacher.

              In 2008 Raven Compact Discs released his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.  American Record Guide responded by writing that “if you like the Goldberg’s enough to buy more than one recording, this one should be on your must-have list.” 

 Performing the Goldberg’s as well as other solo concerts has taken Mr. Sullivan to cities all over the United States, including San Francisco, Albuquerque, Tucson, Prescott, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, Jacksonville Beach, Newark, Caspar (WY), Davenport (IA), Columbia (SC), and Harrisburg (PA).

              As an Oundle recital award-winner, he has performed in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Hexham, England.  He 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. 

 Mr. Sullivan’s skills and sensitive performances have earned him first and second prizes in the Miami International, San Marino, Gruenstein Memorial, Arthur Poister, Albert Schweitzer, Cleveland-AGO, and Twin Cities-AGO organ competitions.

             In addition to playing solo concerts, he performs collaboratively with pianist Jason Cutmore as the New York Piano-Organ Duo and with organist Isabelle Demers as the Sullivan-Demers Two-Organ Duo. 

             The NY Piano-Organ Duo plays standard works for this special combination of instruments in addition to their own transcriptions of other music and new works by living composers.  Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Cutmore arranged Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite” for piano-organ duet.  They have concertized together in Canada and the United States, playing at such well-known venues as Canada’s Elora Festival, Cincinnati’s Hyde Park United Methodist Church, and Finney Chapel at Oberlin College. 

             Mr. Sullivan’s work with Isabelle Demers focuses on transcribing music for performance on two organs played at the same time.  They have arranged music from Bach’s Wachet Auf Cantata, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet, Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, and Wagner’s Tannhäuser.  In 2008 the Jacksonville AGO chapter invited them to perform for their “Organ Spectacular” celebration.  They have also performed in Roanoke (VA), Pensacola (FL), Farmington Hills (MI), and Allentown (PA). 

             Mr. Sullivan's doctoral document, “J. S. Bach and Permutational Design,” was one of two that won the Richard F. French Doctoral Prize at Juilliard in 2010.  This study uncovers secretive forms of hidden organization in the keyboard music of J. S. Bach.  Daniel pursued his academic interest in music early on by completing a theory major at Oberlin Conservatory, with a special emphasis on Schenkerian analysis.

             Mr. Sullivan earned his Mus.B. from Oberlin Conservatory, Mus.M. from Yale University, and both the Artist Diploma and Doctor of Musical Arts from The Juilliard School.  All three schools heavily subsidized his education with generous grants.  His teachers have included Paul Jacobs, Thomas Murray, and Haskell Thomson in performance, and Allen Cadwallader, Daniel Harrison, Philip Lasser, and Carl Schachter in music theory.    

             In 2008-2009, Mr. Sullivan was appointed to the faculty of Juilliard to design and teach an organ literature class.  He now resides in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where in addition to giving private instruction, he teaches piano at Immanuel Lutheran High School and College, organ and piano at the Eau Claire Music School, and general music at Messiah Lutheran School.  He is one of several volunteer organists at Messiah Lutheran Church.