Dan Tepfer’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro French-American jazz pianist and composer
A.K.A. Tepfer
Is Musician 
Educator 
Pianist 
Music educator 
From France 
Type Academia 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 8 January 1982, Paris
Age: 38 years

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.

Biography

Dan Tepfer grew up in Paris, France in a musical and scientific family. He received a bachelors degree in astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh and a masters degree in jazz piano performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he works as a pianist and composer. He tours around the world, with frequent appearances in Europe in particular. Since 2009, he has released a series of critically acclaimed recordings on Sunnyside 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”

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)
  • 2017: Eleven Cages, with Thomas Morgan and Nate Wood (Sunnyside)
  • 2018: Decade, duo with Lee Konitz (Verve Records)

With Billy Hart

  • Sixty-Eight (SteepleChase, 2011)

Film Score

  • Movement+Location
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