Daniel Keene performs on an array of historic and modern plucked string instruments including a variety of lutes, vihuela, bandora, baroque guitar, nineteenth century guitar, modern guitar, and extended electric guitars. He has concertized extensively as a soloist, consort player, continuo player, chamber musician, and pit orchestra musician at a multitude of venues in New York and throughout the United States.
Current projects include French violin and guitar duets with Lisa Casal-Galietta as the Moka Pot Duo, the lute songs of John Dowland with Drew Ivarson as the Poore Astronomers, newly composed works for piano and 8-string electric guitar with his wife Dr. Fang-Yi Chu, and lute duets with Matthew Weinman. Daniel is the guitarist for The Red Door Chamber Players and The Samadi-Keene Piano & Guitar Duo. He has performed with Long Island Baroque Ensemble, The Bacheler Consort, New Place Players, New York Continuo Collective, The Golden Williams Duo, lutenist Kenneth Bé, soprano Erin Heisel, and many others. No stranger to theater, Daniel was the lutenist, guitarist, and arranger for New Place Player’s 2023 Off-Broadway production of William Shakespeare’s Othello which received critical praise.
Daniel studied with Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Jerry Willard, William Zito, and Stephen Leonard. Through workshops, master classes, and coachings he has worked on musical interpretation with lutenists Crawford Young and Grant Herreid, harpsichordist Arthur Haas, violinist Dr. Linda Sinanian, guitarists Paul Cesarczyk, João Luiz, and others. He attended SUNY Stony Brook University, Adelphi University, and SUNY Nassau Community College. Daniel is on the faculty at SUNY Nassau Community College and Great Neck Conservatory.
"Daniel Keene is a guitarist and lutenist of exceptional ability, combining a comprehensive technique and scholarship with an innate musicality."
Jerry Willard, guitarist & lutenist