BIOGRAPHY

Born in Närpes on the west coast of Finland, Dani started playing the piano at the age of five. He studied at the Kuula institute  in Vaasa and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
From Helsinki he moved to California to become the keyboard player for the Heritage Singers. Dani toured 11 months out of the year with them all over the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, French Polynesia…

Dani played at Carnegie Hall, Bally’s Casino in Las Vegas,
Anaheim Convention Center, jazz clubs, churches, hotels …  performing for instance at the Hollywood Angel Awards, Word Records 25th anniversary, World Expo in Vancouver, at Disneyland, on various TV shows, and in different recording studios.

After three years in CA, Dani moved to New York. He studied composition, orchestration and
film scoring at Manne´s College of Music. He was  trained and worked as a concert technician for Steinway & Sons, at Steinway Hall on Manhattan. During this three year period he got to meet and work for a lot of great musicians, such as Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, the Marsalis brothers,  The New York Philharmonic, Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Harry Connick Jr., Rudolph Serkin, Emanuel Ax, Mitsuko Uchida, Shura Cherkassky …

Dani now lives in his native country of Finland. He has released three CD-s: “Of Water and Sand”, “Travelogue”, and his latest solo piano CD “For Sleepless Nights”.

Dani works as a pianist, composer and studio musician. He has been the band leader for  TV shows such as “Villa Wasa” and “Fångad av en sång”. Dani has worked with many singers, musicians, bands and choirs; for instance Jaki Graham, Nils Landgren, Noel Pointer, Willard Meeks, Janne Schaffer, Victoria Tolstoy, Lena Willemark, Triple & Touch, Charlotte Roel, LaGaylia Frazier, Floyd Adams,  Josefin Nilsson, Mike Estes (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Frank Ådahl, Niklas Winter, Mika Mylläri, Maria Kalaniemi, Nina Åström, Chris Willis, Monty Jackson, Marika Krook, Sofia Källgren, Linda Lampenius, Marianne Maans, Art Mapa…

Dani has written music for Swedish director Kjell Sundvall’s feature film “Vinnare och förlorare” (Winners and losers), for TV programs such as “Strömsö”, “Kotikatu”, “Relationskliniken”, “Skolmusik”, “Udda upplevelser-hisnande berättelser”, “Religious apartheid” …

Dani also works as a composer and producer for UK music production company ”3rd Precinct”. He also plays and tours regularly with his jazz trio/quartet. His trio just did a successful tour in the US, a tour called “Art and Music from the top of the World”, a  project that also featured Finnish-Swedish artist Peter Borotinskij´s paintings.