Latin Grammy-nominated Composer · Striving for soul 🎶 + mind 📚 + body 🏋🏽 communion · 🧘🏽‍♂️💫

Daniel Nash is an half Asian-half caucasian American contemporary classical composer and performer. He was born and raised in Colorado, studied in Utah, and is currently based near Los Angeles. He’s classically trained in violin, piano, voice, and electronics and his musical influences stem from minimalism, musique concrete, and 20th century compositional techniques. 

Lately, Daniel has been improvising along with classical/jazz clarinetist, Spencer Danielson,  and percussionist, Alex Williams, to create some unique improvisations. Albums with names such as Daxer or Dancer are blends of the names of the different improvisers.

He also has a passion for interdisciplinary collaborations with physicists, poets, computer scientists, and dancers. For example, in the piece Gravity - Live, the piece was performed live with a cello center stage and the other revolving around it and the double stops the cello is playing matches the gravitational constant.

He did a music business internship in Estonia where he got to do work for Peeter Vähi and Arvo Pärt doing sound engineering and archival work. 

He studied under composers Neil Thornock, Christian Asplund, Micheal Hicks, and Sam Richards at Brigham Young University. 

For some time, his interest was in video game music composition, but has since transitioned to a much more introspective and free approach to music composition. Though, tracks where he felt he had more creative liberty can still be found here.

Composer, Songwriter, Lyricist, Filmmaker, and Novelist. Currently working on my first official album.

I create music and sound...for chamber ensembles, soloists, occasionally large ensembles, and often including electronics.  I also improvise using my trombone, laptop, or both.  THESE ARE MY SOUNDS.  Please enjoy!

Ben Hjertmann is a composer, songwriter, and vocalist.

Columbia College High School Summer Institute '02
Conservatorium Van Amsterdam '05
Illinois Wesleyan '07
Northwestern '13
Bang on a Can Summer Institute '13
Appalachian State University '14—>
Grant Wallace Band '11—>
Kong Must Dead '08—>

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