Dan has written and released 8 CDs including four independent releases from his label Peacefire Productions, and has been featured on several acoustic guitar compilations. His work as a producer and sideman has grown to over a dozen recordings.
With Distribution spreading over ten countries, Dan's music is receiving a growing amount of International interest. He has received frequent airplay on Italian and Korean radio. He was featured in the Italian magazine New Age Music and New Sounds. His composition "Sad Little Girl" has been used throughout Japan as a television theme song.
Dan is at the forefront of developments in the transcription, notation and editing of finger-style guitar music. His work as a part of the Milwaukee Foundation for Guitar Studies, and Stropes Editions, Ltd. has been published in Guitar Player, Acoustic Guitar, Fingerstyle Guitar the Italian guitar magazine Chitarre and Michael Hedges/Rhythm, Sonority, Silence, published by Stropes Editions Ltd.
In addition to his writing and performance career, Dan is an active music teacher in the Twin Cities area. He is on the Kids Rock Camp faculty at MacPhail Center For Music and runs The Twin Cities Young Guitarist Program, which he founded in 2008.
Other Credits:
The debut recording from New Roots Duo entitled Roots Run Deep was voted best local folk/roots album of the year by Mpls. St Paul Magazine.
-Wisconsin Conservatory of Music American Finger-Style Guitar scholarship competition. - First place (1994)
- Nominated for "Guitarist of the Year" by the Minnesota Music Academy (1997)
- Member of Universal Recording artist Angel Grant's Band with Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Michael Bland (Prince), and Libby Turner (Sounds of Blackness) performing shows with such artists as N-Sync, The Roots and LL Cool J. (1998)
- Guitar Center/VH-1 "Guitarmageddon" national guitar competition.
- first place, Minneapolis finals (2000)
- runner-up, Midwest regional finals (2000)
- Featured artist which included Leo Kottke, Eric Johnson and Billy McLaughlin on the Narada Productions compilations Masters of Acoustic Guitar(1997) and Guitar-Fingerstyle II (2001).
- Toured throughout U.S. performing with folk singer-songwriter Peter Mayer. (2004-2005)
- "Cameo critic" in the Minneapolis Star/Tribune discussing essential finger-style guitar recordings.
- "Guest DJ" on Minnesota Public Radio's "The Morning Show".