Dana Lyn

Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Dana Lyn has collaborated and performed with Stew, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Taylor Mac, Heather Christian, Hank Roberts, D’Angelo, and Irish poet Louis de Paor, among others. 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. Theater credits include Hamlet (Shakespeare in the Park, 2008); The Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s Tale (BAM, 2009), Clive, (The New Group, 2013); Family Album (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2014). She currently plays in the musical Hadestown and with The Great Yes, The Great No, by William Kentridge. She has written music for short films, New York Times’ audio stories, and for dance. Her contributions to the Ken Burns documentary American Holocaust were called “sublime” by The Boston Globe. Her own musical projects include the sextet “Mother Octopus“, collaborations with D’Onofrio, Sanna, and De Paor. Her 2022 release “A Point on a Slow Curve (In-a-Circle Records)” is a suite of music for septet and four voices; “brilliantly capturing the rigours and abandon of creativity (A Closer Listen)”, it has been featured on WNYC’s New Sounds program and noted for it “singular expressionism, incorporating forms common to the modern jazz idiom alongside chamber, choir, folk, and avant-garde (Dave Sumner, The Bird is the Worm).”