Dan
Weiss

Bassoon
Dan Weiss
I'm Dan, the Artistic Director & bassoonist of San Diego's Left Coast Quintet. We enjoy pushing the boundaries & musical repertoire of quintet abilities, routinely performing film, stage, & pops music. 

Our group performs around Southern California at festivals, weddings, and corporate events. We really enjoy more performance-based showcases where we can spotlight our players, interact with the audience by sharing interesting musical information, and connect with communities that are not usually able to see symphonies in person. 

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Dan Weiss

A Texas transplant who landed in Southern California, bassoonist and contrabassoonist Dan Weiss has traveled the country performing and collaborating with a wide variety of ensembles. He has been both soloist and section member of symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, and stage productions, and has worked to spread the love and appreciation of classical music to new groups of people through exciting performances and demonstrations.

In 2001, Dan moved to the Central Coast of California, which provided many advantages for music making, including the opportunity to play with the San Luis Obispo Symphony, the Music Academy of the West Festival Chamber Ensemble, and the Carmel Bach Festival. He regularly performed with the San Luis Obispo Wind Quintet, including exhibition performances at Festival Mozaic, the annual world renowned Mozart Festival of San Luis Obispo.

Since moving to San Diego in 2006, Dan has performed with a number of groups, including the San Diego Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Mainly Mozart Festival, San Diego City Ballet, Opera NEO, Grossmont Symphony, La Jolla Symphony, the Villa Musica Symphony Orchestra, New City Sinfonia, San Diego Junior Theatre, and the Imperial Valley Symphony. Dan has performed in concert with Evanescense and Lindsey Stirling. He co-founded and is the Artistic Director of the Left Coast Quintet, an ensemble that seeks out unique and fun arrangements for small wind ensemble. Dan contracts musicians for a variety of performances around the city, including corporate events, weddings, stage shows, and fundraisers.

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Experience

Experience

San Diego, CA, USA

Bassoonist

2016 - Present
Bassoonist/Contrabassoonist for UCSD Symphony and Wind Ensemble groups as needed.

Left Coast Quintet

2014 - Present
San Diego, CA, USA

Artistic Director

2014 - Present
As the Artistic Director of the Left Coast Quintet, I am the main point of contact for all group activities. I schedule and program concerts, work with booking agents, manage our performances, update our website and social media, and run marketing for the group. I am also the bassoonist of the ensemble.

Villa Musica

2013 - Present

Bassoonist

2013 - Present
Bassoonist and contrabassoonist of the Villa Musica Summer Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Chamber Players groups.

Opera NEO

2014 - 2016
San Diego, California

Bassoonist

2014 - 2016
Bassoonist for the San Diego Opera NEO orchestra.

Expertise

Instrument

Bassoon

Special Skill

Concerts/Cabarets

Classical Crossover Music

Digital Performer

Performance Coach

Solo performance

Performing arts presenting

Bardic performance

Dance performance

Historical performance