Dan Sato
Lecturer in Music (piano)
Dan Sato was described by the legendary American virtuoso André Watts as a musician of “exuberant spontaneity, deep conviction, and serious compositional understanding.”
Sato has been heard internationally on major radio stations and streaming media platforms, and at music festivals across the U.S. In addition to solo endeavors, he regularly collaborates with mezzo-soprano Katherine Suzanne Weber and has recorded critically acclaimed albums with saxophonist Diane Hunger and cellist Leah Plave.
Sato has coached students and taught keyboard literature at Syracuse University and has been a faculty artist at the Perlman Music Program, ArtsAhimsa, and Notes By The Bay Music Festival. He was most recently the visiting assistant professor of piano at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, and is now a lecturer of piano performance at Syracuse and Hamilton.
Selected Recordings and Publications
- 2023 - S. Rachmaninoff/D. Sato: Romance, from Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17 (transcription for piano solo) - Transcriber
- 2023 - C. Saint-Saëns/D. Sato: Ossias for Étude en forme de valse, Op.52 no. 6 - composer
- 2022 - S. Rachmaninoff/D. Sato: Kakoye schastye, Op. 34 no. 12 (transcription for piano solo) - Transcriber
- 2021 - R. Strauss/E. Risler: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (transcription for piano solo) – Editor and Writer
- 2021 - T. Shioiri/Y. Morishita: Aoi Tori – Translator
2021
- K. Ishizuki: Anthology of Classical Guitar Masterworks – Translator
- V. Wakhmaninov/H. Sumino: Piano Concerto No. 1 “Anti-Ares” - Translator
2020
- M. Ravel/D. Sato: Introduction et Allegro (transcription for piano solo) - Transcriber
- L. Godowsky: Rediscovered incomplete Studies on Chopin’s Etudes Nos. 30A and 50 – Translator and Editor
- M. Ravel/K. Mukawa: Ma Mère l’Oye (transcription for piano solo) –Translator
- Impressions: The Rediscovery of Henriëtte Bosmans - CD recording of complete works for cello and piano of Henriëtte Bosmans with Leah Plave, cello
2019
- Deviations – CD recording with Dr. Diane Hunger, saxophone
2018
- F. Rogers/D. Sato: It’s You I Like (transcription for solo piano)
2017
- S. Rachmaninoff/D. Sato: Zdes’ khorosho, Op. 21 no. 7 (transcription for piano solo)
2012
- C. Debussy/D. Sato: Beau soir (transcription for solo piano)
Appointed to the Faculty
2025Educational Background
D.M.A., University of Miami
M.A., Florida Atlantic University
B.M., University of Cincinnati
