Dana Lyn, violin

Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Dana Lyn has collaborated and performed with a wide variety of artists, including downtown theater makers Taylor Mac and Heather Christian, actor-directors Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio, avant cellist Hank Roberts, guitarist Kyle Sanna, and Irish poet Louis de Paor, among others. She was an artist-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, an awardee of the American Composers Forum Create Commission, a recipient of a NYFA Women’s Fund Award for Media, Music and Theater, and a Sundance Composer Lab Fellow. She has received commissions from Brooklyn Rider, the National Arts Council of Ireland, the Apple Hill String Quartet, violinist Johnny Gandelsman, violist Nicholas Cords, A Far Cry, and Palaver Strings, among others. She has written music for short films, New York Times’ audio stories, dance, and most recently, Ken Burns’ American Revolution. She currently plays in the band of the Broadway production of Hadestown and with The Great Yes, The Great No and The Head and The Load, both by William Kentridge. Dana has made nine albums under her name or as a co-bandleader; her 2022 release “A Point on a Slow Curve (In-a-Circle Records)” is a suite of music for septet and four voices that “brilliantly capturing the rigours and abandon of creativity (A Closer Listen).” It has been featured on WNYC’s New Sounds program and noted for its “singular expressionism, incorporating forms common to the modern jazz idiom alongside chamber, choir, folk, and avant-garde (Dave Sumner, The Bird is the Worm).” Her tenth album, titled “Animal Revenge – A Cautionary Tale” , will be released later this year. Dana is also a well-versed fiddle player in the Irish tradition.