Dan Tepfer

Dan Tepfer
Background information
Born	(1982-01-08) 8 January 1982 (age 39) Paris, France
Genres	Jazz, classical
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Piano
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Sunnyside
Associated acts	Lee Konitz, Ben Wendel
Website	www.dantepfer.com

Dan Tepfer (born 1982 in Paris, France) is a French-American jazz pianist and composer. He is best known for his 2011 album Goldberg Variations/Variations and his 2019 multimedia project Natural Machines.

Biography[]

Dan Tepfer grew up in Paris, France in a musical and scientific family. 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.^[1] He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he works as a pianist and composer.^[2] He tours around the world, with frequent appearances in Europe in particular.^[3] Since 2009, he has released a series of critically acclaimed ^[4] recordings on Sunnyside Records and Verve 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.

Awards and honors[]

• 2006: First Prize and Audience Prize, Montreux Jazz Festival Bösendorfer Solo Piano Competition
• 2007: Winner of American Pianists Awards and Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz, American Pianists Association
• 2011: CHOC Jazz Magazine (France) for "Goldberg Variations / Variations"
• 2011 – 2013: Rising Star Pianist, Down Beat
• 2012 – 2013: Rising Star Pianist, JazzTimes
• 2014: Charles Ives Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2016: MacDowell Fellowship, MacDowell Colony
• 2017: CHOC Jazz Magazine (France) for "Eleven Cages"
• 2018: Fondation BNP-Paribas 3-year artistic development award

Discography[]

• 2005: Before the Storm, with Richie Barshay and Jorge Roeder (DIZ)
• 2007: Oxygen, with Richie Barshay and Jorge Roeder (DIZ)
• 2009: Twelve Free Improvisations in Twelve Keys (DIZ)
• 2009: Duos with Lee, duo with Lee Konitz (Sunnyside)
• 2010: Five Pedals Deep, with Thomas Morgan and Ted Poor (Sunnyside)
• 2011: Goldberg Variations/Variations (Sunnyside)
• 2013: Small Constructions, with Ben Wendel (Sunnyside)
• 2014: First Meeting: Live in London, Volume 1 with Lee Konitz, Michael Janisch & Jeff Williams (Whirlwind)
• 2017: Eleven Cages, with Thomas Morgan and Nate Wood (Sunnyside)
• 2018: Decade, duo with Lee Konitz (Verve Records)
• 2019: Natural Machines, with real-time musical and visual algorithmic response (Sunnyside)

With Billy Hart

• Sixty-Eight (SteepleChase, 2011)

Film Score

• Movement+Location

External links[]

• Dan Tepfer Official Website
• French documentary of Konitz and Tepfer European tour Not available anymore for reason of copyright claim
• NPR Tiny Desk Concert

References[]