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ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards 2004/2005
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17, San Francisco, CA
Daniel Riera is a seventeen-year-old senior at School of the Arts High School in San Francisco, California. He plays flute, bass and tenor saxophone and has had a lifelong interest in composition.
Daniel has studied with jazz flute virtuoso and composer John Calloway since he was ten years old. He also receives instruction from Esther Landau, a well-regarded flute teacher in the Bay Area. Additionally, Daniel has studied with classical composer D'Arcy Reynolds and music producer Greg Landau.
Daniel is active in the local music scene, gigging frequently with several bands. As a member of the prestigious Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco, he has performed with legends such as Clare Fischer, Poncho Sanchez and Cachao. The ensemble has had numerous high-profile performances including the San Jose Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Latin Jazz Festival, Carnaval San Francisco, and live broadcasts on radio and TV. At School of the Arts, Daniel is involved with the Jazz Combo, the Latin Combo, the Wind Ensemble and the Orchestra.
Riera has participated in the Stanford Jazz Workshop, a summer residency, for the past six years where he won Outstanding Soloist Awards and Composition Awards. In April 2004 he was awarded a scholarship at the Monterey High School Jazz Festival by Berklee College of Music in Boston and in December 2004 he won additional scholarship funds during Berklee's World Scholarship Tour.
Daniel is a 2004-2005 recipient of the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts Merit Award in Composition. In January 2005, he was named an ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer. Daniel plans to study music production and engineering as well as film composition at Berklee when he begins college in Fall 2005.
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