Dan Weiss
Founder and Artistic Director of the San Diego based Left Coast Quintet, Dan is a regular at many local music events and performs in symphonies, pit orchestra, opera, and various music festivals. LCQ performs for weddings, holiday events, corporate galas, and similar events.
Dan has over 20 years of performance and musical collaboration experience, and has won awards at numerous competitions for both solo and ensemble work. Dan holds a degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where he served as principal bassoon of the University Symphony and the wind quintet while studying City and Regional Planning, and a graduate certification from the University of California, San Diego.
Dan enjoys collaborating with friends and musicians on performances for a wide range of audiences, in venues as small as coffee shops and school classrooms, to company parties, ceremonies, and full symphonic solos. He has been a featured chamber or solo performer on both coasts, in Boston, New York, San Diego, LA, Orange County, and San Luis Obispo. Dan plays with the versatile Left Coast Quintet, a group of professional musicians that perform for company parties, weddings, large public events, and school presentations. www.leftcoastquintet.org