Daniel Joseph Hyde
Daniel is a professional pianist, musician, artist, teacher, writer, lecturer, producer, arranger, accompanist, composer, metaphysician, hermeneutic philosopher, novelist, and poet. He specializes in providing musical accompaniment to both modern and classical dance-forms, and leads a private piano studio. Many years’ experience in interdisciplinary arts intertwining with ongoing study of the multiform presentations of metaphysical information in creations of all God-systems, mythologies, artforms, philosophies, sciences, and modern psychology led to an interest in synthesizing Art and Religion into an approachable and immediately appliable form. One aiming to guide people of every circumstance to interact with the world around them in a way most beneficial to our species-particularity; to autonomously develop justification for that beneficial interaction by this synthesis facilitating comprehension of the vast breadth of creations of every type, subject, and period which have been passed onto us.
Daniel uses music, poetry, long and short-form fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, academic writing, lecturing, and visual art to offer others those concepts about the nature of ourselves and our world which he finds most beneficial, the ways reflecting them, their sources, means to justification of their implications, and the potentials of their engagement.
All work found here is a means of offering others knowledge about ourselves, our consciousness, and our Universe usable for interaction with the world always at our fingertips, in our daily lives, autonomously, in perpetuation, and by all of us.
Daniel is influenced by (among many others) the works of C.G. Jung, J.S. Bach, Ovid, W. Shakespeare, M.C. Escher, G. Seferis, P. Éluard, S. Dalí, P. Picasso, D. Hofstadter, L. da Vinci, the Brygos Painter, the Greek God-system and etymology, and the symbols and archetypes of folklore and spiritualities from across the world and time.
Daniel has worked with education and performance institutions such as:
The Juilliard School
The Alvin Ailey Dance Company
The Martha Graham School and Dance Company
LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts
The Ballet Hispanico Company
Mark Morris Dance Group
Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance Company
SOZO Visions in Motion, Germany
Bard College
Kaatsbaan Cultural Center
IBStage, Liceu Theatre, Barcelona
Dance Cultural Centre, Athens Greece
Services
2024 Visiting Artist-In-Residence, and Lecturer: Dance Program, Bard College
Instructor: Music, Piano, Improvisation, Theory, Composition
Lecturer: Interpretation/Synthesis of Art and Religion, and Collaboration between Art-forms
Dance Accompanist (Classical and Contemporary)
Arranger/Producer/Composer
Recording Artist/Studio Musician/Touring Musician
Poet, Novelist, and Essayist
Seminar and Class Design: Creator of “Dance and Music: Our Shared Time Context”