Daniel Sullivan is a musician with the rare distinction of having earned both the Artist Diploma and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School.  As a highly-trained organist, he used to play concerts throughout the US and Canada.  In 2011 he chose to stop performing in churches that promote certain beliefs which contradict the plain teachings of the Bible and its good news of eternal salvation from hell accomplished solely through the work of Jesus Christ.  Instead, his musical work now focuses on teaching music.  He is a piano instructor at the Eau Claire Music School and at Immanuel Lutheran College (Eau Claire, WI).  In addition, he maintains a private roster of students interested in piano and organ and teaches music to grades 1-8 at Messiah Lutheran School in Eau Claire.

              In 2008 Raven Compact Discs released his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.  American Record Guide responded by writing that “if you like the Goldberg’s enough to buy more than one recording, this one should be on your must-have list.” 

 Performing the Goldberg’s as well as other solo concerts has taken Mr. Sullivan to cities all over the United States, including San Francisco, Albuquerque, Tucson, Prescott, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, Jacksonville Beach, Newark, Caspar (WY), Davenport (IA), Columbia (SC), and Harrisburg (PA).

              As an Oundle recital award-winner, he has performed in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Hexham, England.  He has been a featured soloist at New York City's Basically Bach Festival, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, and the White Mountain Musical Arts Annual Bach Festival in New Hampshire. 

 Mr. Sullivan’s skills and sensitive performances have earned him first and second prizes in the Miami International, San Marino, Gruenstein Memorial, Arthur Poister, Albert Schweitzer, Cleveland-AGO, and Twin Cities-AGO organ competitions.

             In addition to playing solo concerts, he has performed collaboratively with pianist Jason Cutmore as the New York Piano-Organ Duo.  The Duo played standard works for this special combination of instruments in addition to finding new works by living composers and creating their own transcriptions of other music.  Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Cutmore arranged Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite” for piano-organ duet.  They concertized together in Canada and the United States, playing at such well-known venues as Canada’s Elora Festival, Cincinnati’s Hyde Park United Methodist Church, and Finney Chapel at Oberlin College. 

             Mr. Sullivan's doctoral document, “J. S. Bach and Permutational Design,” was one of two documents that won the Richard F. French Doctoral Prize at Juilliard in 2010.  This study uncovers secretive forms of hidden organization in the keyboard music of J. S. Bach.  Daniel pursued his academic interest in music early on by completing a theory major at Oberlin Conservatory, with a special emphasis on Schenkerian analysis.

             Mr. Sullivan earned his Mus.B. from Oberlin Conservatory, Mus.M. from Yale University, and both the Artist Diploma and Doctor of Musical Arts from The Juilliard School.  All three schools heavily subsidized his education with generous grants.  His teachers have included Paul Jacobs, Thomas Murray, and Haskell Thomson in performance, and Allen Cadwallader, Daniel Harrison, Philip Lasser, and Carl Schachter in music theory.  In 2008-2009, Mr. Sullivan was appointed to the faculty of Juilliard to design and teach an organ literature class.