A versatile multi-instrumentalist based in Boston, Dan Meyers is a flexible and enthusiastic performer of both classical and folk music; his credits range from premieres of contemporary chamber music, to headlining a concert series in honor of Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival, to playing Renaissance instruments on Broadway for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company.
He is a founding member of the early music/folk crossover group Seven Times Salt, and in recent seasons he has performed with the The Folger Consort, The Newberry Consort, Hesperus, Severall Friends, Musica Maestrale, Dünya, The Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Early Music New York, Amherst Early Music, The 21st Century Consort, and In Stile Moderno. He has made concert and theatrical appearances in NYC, Washington DC, Portland, Santa Fe, and of course in Texas, where he recently taught for the inaugural Early Music Latin America Festival at UTEP.
Dan enjoys playing traditional Irish music with the bands Ulster Landing and Ishna, as well as eclectic fusion from around the Mediterranean with the US/Italy-based group Zafarán. As an educator, he has taught historical wind instruments for the Five Colleges Early Music Program in Massachusetts, at Tufts University, and at festivals and workshops around the US.
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