Daniel Sant

SCHOLAR DESCRIPTION

Daniel Sant is an up-and-coming pianist currently reading for his Bachelor’s degree in HKU Conservatory, Utrecht, with a focus on jazz standards and classical repertoire. Prior to developing an avid interest in contemporary genres in his teens, he had already spent his childhood studying classical piano. Later on, he took to composing his own music in earnest; an early notable start was his contribution to Plato’s Dream Machine’s “Guf” in 2019. A collection of self-produced, indie-pop emerged in the early 2020s, and eventually the release of a solo piano album, “Catharsis”, along with a participation in the Malta Jazz Festival in 2023. He will be recording a new solo album towards the end of 2024. He is currently the leader of his own jazz quartet which plays mostly original material, and will be branching into the familiar terrain of the piano trio format soon.