Friday, April 12th, 2024, 7:30 pm
Piano on Park Live presents:
Daniel Harnett (voice and guitar) & Cyrus von Hochstetter (piano)
Daniel Harnett - songs, voice, & guitar
Cyrus von Hochstetter - piano
About Daniel Harnett
Daniel Harnett made his Broadway debut singing and acting in I REMEMBER MAMA. He’s been writing songs since 1983 and has accumulated a catalogue of over a thousand. His work has been aired on WFMU 91.1 FM and has been featured in a handful of shorts and independent feature films (DOG RUN Dir: Ze’ev Gilad and most recently THE VANISHING POINT Dir: Sadie Rose Corrigan). Daniel has performed solo, as a trio and a quartet on bills with such artists as Jewel, Stereo Lab and Jeff Buckley. Daniel has also toured solo in 2003 across New Zealand; performed at numerous venues including Irving Plaza, Mercury Lounge, CBGB’s and Sine; toured the North East in 2014 with his most current band Crystal Robots; and was recently featured on the latest record by Mark Kozlek to be released end of 2022. He’s been commissioned to write music for the theater by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Patrick Shanley as part of Labyrinth Theater Company of which he is a member.
About Cyrus von Hochstetter
With his training in both classical and jazz piano, Cyrus von Hochstetter straddles the musical worlds as a pianist, composer, educator, lecturer and presenter. As a pianist, he has performed internationally, toured the US with chamber music ensembles and produced records with diverse musicians such as Larry Campbell, Ryan Keberle, Stéphane Wrembel and David Taylor.
Cyrus von Hochstetter launched a free concert series for New York’s Lower East Side community and also designed an innovative composition curriculum teaching children as young as seven years old how to write music from scratch.
With a passion for storytelling, he frequently speaks publicly about the language of music and introduces audiences into the deeper fabric of classical music through his educational YouTube video series ‘My Music Notes’. He has presented at the University of Oregon and for the Oregon Music Teachers Association.