Daniel Blake

Mount Kisco, New York

Multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Daniel Blake has performed throughout the US and internationally with Grammy-winning artists and with his own projects. He has been dubbed a “virtuoso” by the New York Times, and his release Da Fé (Sunnyside Records, 2021) was called “the perfect soundtrack for building a better world” (Monarch Magazine). Downbeat Magazine has described his work as "emotionally intense and highly exploratory". He is the recipient of a 2022 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in music, and his work has been featured by leading arts institutions like the Jerome Foundation, Composers Now, Aaron Copland House, the Tricentric Foundation, and others. In 2023, Daniel Blake received a Humanities New York grant to design an interdisciplinary workshop based on his latest release Got My Wings (Adhyaropa Records, 2025), which helps high school students and educators use the arts as a vehicle to think about criminal justice. Blake holds a Ph.D. in composition from the CUNY Graduate Center, and is Assistant Professor of music at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

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Presentation(s):

• Polyrhythm in Jazz Improvisation and Composition

  Friday, January 9, 2026
  6:00 PM - 6:50 PM CST