Daniel

Blake

Multi-instrumentalist and composer and educator Daniel Blake has performed throughout the US and internationally with Grammy-winning artists and with his own projects. He has been dubbed a “virtuoso” by the New York Times, and his release Da Fé (Sunnyside Records, 2021) was called “the perfect soundtrack for building a better world” (Monarch Magazine). He is the recipient of a 2022 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in music, and his work has been featured by leading arts institutions like the Jerome Foundation, Composers Now, Aaron Copland House, and others. In 2023, Daniel Blake received a Humanities New York grant to design an interdisciplinary workshop based on his ballet and most recent release Got My Wings (Adhyaropa Records, 2025) to help high school students and educators use the arts as a vehicle to think about criminal justice. Daniel Blake sits on the Board of Directors of Buddhist Global Relief, an organization that alleviates poverty, hunger and malnutrition in poor communities around the world. Blake earned a Ph.D. in composition from the CUNY Graduate Center, and before joining the faculty of John Jay College, he previously taught at The New School, and the Conservatory at Brooklyn College.