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Dan Karlsberg
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Dan Karlsberg – Jazz Pianist & Composer
“[Dan’s] albums have long showed a mix of reverence for Jazz (and Classical music) tradition and form and a
creative curiosity that helps him reveal new perspectives within them, all tied together with his finely-tuned
improvisational instincts.”
-Mike Breen, CityBeat Magazine
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dan Karlsberg has been obsessed with music his entire life. Karlsberg is active as a
performer, composer, and teacher.
Karlsberg has since released seven albums as leader: “Mission to Mars and Other Short Stories” (2010), “The
‘Nati 6” (2015), “Tales from the Winter Solstice” (2018), “All In” (2021), “Holding the Wheel of Life” (2023), and
will be releasing his first solo piano album “Rooms Without Walls” in (2026).
Karlsberg is also in demand as a sideman, and has worked with numerous musicians including Donald Harrison,
Tim Warfield, JD Allen, Terrell Stafford, Sean Jones, Jeremy Pelt, Greg Tardy, Steve Wilson, Antonio Hart, Walter
Blanding, Robin Eubanks, Ted Nash, Ignacio Berroa, Carl Allen, John Von Ohlen, the Blue Wisp Big Band,
Cohesion Jazz Ensemble, Jamey Aebersold, among many others.
As a teacher, Karlsberg has been working as a private piano, composition, theory instructor since 2001. He also
taught annually at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan from 2005 – 2017. Karlsberg is currently an
adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, teaching in the Commercial
Music Production department and the Jazz department.
