Guitarist Daniel Lippel, called an “exciting soloist” (New York Times) and “precise and sensitive” (Boston Globe) has a multi-faceted career as a performer and recording artist. He has premiered more than fifty solo and chamber works, many written for him, recording several on his label, New Focus Recordings. Recent performance highlights include recitals at Le Poisson Rouge (NY), Sinus Ton Festival (Germany), National University of Colombia (Bogota), and the New York and Cleveland Classical Guitar Societies, and chamber performances on the Mostly Mozart Festival, Ojai Festival, Ottawa Chamber Festival, Aspekte Festival (Salzburg), and Kunst Universitaet Graz (Austria). He has worked closely with many prominent composers including Mario Davidovsky, Nils Vigeland, Ken Ueno, Dai Fujikura, Tyshawn Sorey, Wang Lu, and Du Yun. In addition to New Focus, he appears on recordings on several other labels including Kairos, Bridge, Innova, Sono Luminus, Albany, Tzadik, Wergo, and New World. In improvised settings, he has collaborated with pianist Cory Smythe, guitarist Alejandro Florez, guitarist Dan Bruce and Aidan Plank as Collage Project, as well as being a member of the eclectic indie group Mice Parade on several albums and international tours. He received his DMA from the Manhattan School of Music studying with David Starobin.