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New York City native Danny Rivera's Orchestra have previously been featured at Drom's "Under the Radar" Showcase. Winner of Downbeat's 2009 Student Music Awards for Outstanding Performance in the Big Band category, and winner of ASCAP's Young Jazz Composers award. Danny's quintet was commissioned by ASCAP to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. for a series called "Songwriters: The Next Generation" and followed that by headlining the Toms River Jazz Festival in New Jersey.

Notable sideman appearances include playing to 17,000 people in Lincoln Center's Out of Doors series and playing to 5,000 people in Verona, Italy for the Verona Jazz Festival with Bobby Sanabria, Blue Note and Kennedy Center Jazz Club with Jon Batiste, Birdland and Aaron Davis Hall with Arturo O'Farrill, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola w/ Gary Smulyan's Baritone Summit. Notable arrangements include "St. Louis Blues" for Steve Wilson at the Allen Room in Lincoln Center, "Such Is Love/ Little Rock Prophet" by Howard Johnson arranged for studio orchestra, and numerous arrangements on the "Kenya Revisited" and "Tito Puente Masterworks" albums by Bobby Sanabria which were both nominated for Latin GRAMMYs. Danny can be heard as a sideman/ arranger on Bobby Sanabria's GRAMMY nominated albums "Multiverse" and "West Side Story Reimagined" on the Jazzheads label.

Discography:

as a sideman/ arranger:
Bobby Sanabria - West Side Story Reimagined(2018 Jazzheads) *
Sean Taylor - The Art of Sean Taylor Vol. 2: Introspection (2013)
Manhattan School of Music Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra - Meditations Suite (2012 Jazzheads)
Bobby Sanabria - Multiverse (2012 Jazzheads) *
SHWIZZ - SHWIZZ (2009)
Captain Coconut - Everybody’s Business (2009)
Captain Coconut - Shoop (2007)

as an arranger:
Bobby Sanabria - Kenya Revisited (2009 Jazzheads) **
Bobby Sanabria - Tito Puente Masterworks - (2011 Jazzheads) **

* - nominated for a GRAMMY
** - nominated for a Latin GRAMMY

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