https://www.danielshomper.com/home daily 1.0 2022-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/3367e76e-e5d8-4970-8965-3c59aef05032/unnamed7.jpeg Home - About Dan Daniel is a multifaceted soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. The Baltimore Sun has praised his ‘virtuoso playing’ and complimented his ‘masterful performance’ and ‘lyrical expression.’ In addition to his solo work, Daniel performs with the Riverhawk String Quartet, the Tapestry Cello Ensemble, as well as other collaborations. Daniel is a passionate supporter of new music, and is the founder and director of the New Music Maryland concert series at Anne Arundel Community College. He is a passionate teacher and serves on the faculty at Anne Arundel Community College, the Annapolis Symphony Academy and maintains an active private studio. https://www.danielshomper.com/about daily 0.75 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/8042f2f7-b559-4666-b3fe-2846b9d7073e/unnamed6.jpeg About - About Dan Daniel Shomper is an active performer, chamber musician, orchestral musician and teacher. The Baltimore Sun has praised his ‘virtuoso playing’ and complimented his ‘masterful performance’ and ‘lyrical expression.’ He has performed at venues in the United States and abroad, including venues in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Prague, Budapest, Helsinki, and Quebec. Recent notable performances include his featured solo appearance on the 2018 AACC Symphony Orchestra tour of Spain, performing Victor Herbert’s second cello concerto in venues in Madrid, Avila and Seseña Nuevo. Dr. Shomper is an avid chamber musician. He is a founding member of the Riverhawk String Quartet, which features the string faculty at Anne Arundel Community College. He is also a member of the Tapestry Cello Ensemble, which performs a broad range of music written and arranged for cello quartet. Daniel is passionate advocate for new, contemporary, and underperformed works. He is the Founder and Director of the World Class Chamber Music Series, and the New Music Maryland Concerts at Anne Arundel Community College. These concerts feature performances by the RSQ, solo recitals by faculty, and other collaborations. The New Music Concerts have resulted in the commissioning and premieres of works for solo cello, string quartet, and more eclectic ensembles. He is a member of the Annapolis Symphony where he frequently serves as acting principal and associate principal. Daniel also performs with many other orchestras and ensembles in the DC and Baltimore area, including the Baltimore Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Post-Classical Ensemble, the National Cathedral Orchestra and Choir among others. He has also served as Associate Principal Cello of the Reading Symphony and performs regularly with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Shomper is passionate teacher. He serves on the faculty at the Annapolis Symphony Academy, maintains a robust private studio, directs a cello ensemble comprised of his students and is an Adjunct Faculty member at Anne Arundel Community College. Dr. Shomper received his DMA from the University of Maryland where he studied with David Hardy, Peter Wiley and the Guarneri Quartet, Kenneth Slowik and Evelyn Elsing. https://www.danielshomper.com/teaching daily 0.75 2022-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/c3fb5280-d01f-4eff-ac68-606fa88c57ad/unnamed2.jpeg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/23e0bc99-a873-4d54-b85d-87029fa4f166/IMG_1764-min.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/233e772d-5b3a-45e6-a3e0-71eab761d7a6/unnamed.jpeg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/e21df92e-5aa7-452d-ade3-e83aa0e86b61/IMG_1763-min.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/532f6c5f-a242-4d53-bfdd-7c4958b87444/IMG_0060.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/75fa605f-dd04-42ac-82e2-8802ba862b57/IMG_0226.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/184938d2-20bf-4f3a-8e96-0be4b27d0ebc/IMG_0634.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/672a5bf3-95d9-498b-9202-682eedd1da3c/IMG_0636.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/623a10f3-6729-4775-89b6-3e1bf60c1f46/IMG_1347.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/c19a005b-b2b2-455b-a2f5-865cf3c1e38a/IMG_2187.jpg Teaching https://www.danielshomper.com/media daily 0.75 2022-07-07 https://www.danielshomper.com/concerts daily 0.75 2022-10-06 https://www.danielshomper.com/shop daily 0.75 2022-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62980047219045257eadaf13/c21adb24-c5f0-4a9f-a998-33e54c03f6f9/Daniel+Shomper+Album+Cover.jpeg Shop - The Complete Works for Cello and Piano - Parts 1 & 2 $25.00 (Includes shipping) I lovingly call this album my ‘crazy covid project’. At the beginning of the Covid shut down in 2020, I was looking for ways to keep playing, to keep motivated and to keep growing! 2020 was also Beethoven’s 250th birthday year, and I had planned a few concerts in the Fall of 2020 to celebrate his music, which were unfortunately all canceled due to the shut down. Instead, (insert long story here) Elizabeth Brown, Jessica McKee and I decided to live-stream a concert of all the works of Beethoven for cello and piano. While it was not the original intention to perform them all in one long concert, due to covid restrictions and other extenuating circumstances, we did. We gave a performance in November of 2020 as a fundraiser for the Annapolis Symphony Academy. The recording project followed in the spring and summer of 2021, and we are thrilled to share with you the result!. If you’re interested in purchasing a copy of our CD, please contact me at danshomper@me.com.