Dan Koontz

Composer/pianist/singer-songwriter, Dan Koontz, was an obsessive listener as a child.  While other kids were outside playing ball, Dan stayed inside listening to his parent’s records of country and rock music and the jazz he discovered later.  At the same time, he studied classical piano, and with a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition he headed off to Eastman School of Music.  

Dan’s classical compositions have been recorded and celebrated but it’s his love of country and bluegrass thathecelebrates on his new CD, Whiskey and Wine, recorded with his father and brother with their trio, Edna’s Kin.