Daniel Barbiero

A native of New Haven, CT, Daniel Barbiero has been active in creative improvised music in the Baltimore-Washington area for several years as a performer, composer, and bandleader. His music reflects his long-standing engagement with scalar and free improvisation, aleatory composition, modal and post-bop jazz, and world fusion. His creative activities have included leading and composing for the improv unit Shape Memory Alloy, and stints in the DC Improvisers’ Collective and the raga/jazz fusion band TouchingGrace; he has collaborated with saxophonists Mike Sebastian and Jim Sivard, experimentalists Gary Rouzer and T. A. Zook, and backed Blue Note recording artist Greg Osby on a recent DC date. In addition, he has arranged and performed contemporary composed music, including appearing in the premier of composer Robert Carl’s Changing My Spots and playing in the Low End String Quartet. His solo music has been used as a setting for dance and movement. In addition to ongoing solo projects and experimental collaborations, he plays in the Little Falls Jazz Quartet.