Daniel Goldblum
bassoonist | filmmaker | artistic director

about

I grew up in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, writing music for electric bassoon. In Ann Arbor I began filmmaking and founded my comedy collective Bach Party, with Bassoon Rap and other shorts to our name. Now I make non-narrative music films, with images I've gathered in Lithuania, Iceland and Switzerland, and a range of instruments including melodica, percussion, saxophone and synthesizers.


Daniel is an artist and educator in Los Angeles, his hometown. He has created live scores for original and silent films for the Wende Museum of the Cold War, the American Cinematheque, the Pico Union Project, and the Sound of Silent Film Festival Chicago. He is a Teaching Artist with YOLA, the LA Philharmonic’s El Sistema-style youth orchestra program, at their HOLA site. In summer 2021, he led an interdisciplinary performance workshop at the Crescendo Summer Institute in Tokaj, Hungary, together with his partner Dominyka Šeibok. His music video Bassoon Rap screened at the NYC Independent Film Festival.As a bassoonist, he spent two years in Hudson at Bard College Conservatory, where he directed the Woodwind Lab, coached chamber music, and performed with The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall. He’s performed at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Herkulesaal in Munich, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and has appeared at the Sarasota Music Festival with Jeffrey Kahane, the Moritzburg Festival in Dresden with Heinrich Schiff, and the International Orchestral Institute Attergau with Michael Schønwandt and members of the Vienna Philharmonic. He completed his Masters of Music at the Manhattan School of Music with Kim Laskowski, Associate Principal of the New York Philharmonic, and his Bachelors of Music at the University of Michigan with Dr. Jeffrey Lyman. He performs on a Heckel from 1953, previously heard in the Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestras.

Daniel Goldblum is a Los Angeles-based bassoonist, composer, filmmaker and educator, creating live score films, documentaries, experimental films, and silent film scores. His films draw from his time living abroad in Austria and Lithuania, and from the search for new forms. As co-artistic director of Five Skins Interdisciplinary, he specializes in live productions that combine film and music, as well as movement and free improvisation. He's created live scores for silent films for the Wende Museum of the Cold War, the American Cinematheque and the Pico Union Project, and interdisciplinary productions for Heidi Duckler Dance and Open Gate Theatre. His original films have screened at the NYC Independent Film Festival, the Sound of Silent Film Festival Chicago, and the American Institute of Architects. 

As an educator he began teaching as the Woodwind Lab Director at Bard College Conservatory. Today he’s a teaching artist with Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, the L.A. Philharmonic’s El Sistema-modeled initiative, the HOLA Intergenerational Orchestra, and Wise School. During the summer he leads an interdisciplinary performance workshop at the Crescendo Summer Institute in Hungary with his partner Dominyka Šeibok.

As a bassoonist he’s appeared with the Sarasota, Moritzburg, and Bowdoin Music Festivals, the Neue Philharmonie München, The Orchestra Now, and the American Youth Symphony, with performances at Carnegie Hall, the Musikverein in Vienna, Herkulesaal in Munich, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. He’s worked with Gustavo Dudamel, Jeffrey Kahane, Leonard Slatkin, Heinrich Schiff, and Michael Schønwandt with members of the Vienna Philharmonic.

He completed his Masters of Music at the Manhattan School of Music with Kim Laskowski, Associate Principal of the New York Philharmonic, his Bachelors of Music at the University of Michigan with Dr. Jeffrey Lyman, certificate studies with Marc Goldberg at Bard, and non-degree studies with Marcelo Padilla at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

He performs on a Heckel from 1953, previously heard in the Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestras.