Danny always strives to find a healthy balance between performance, scholarship, and teaching. His research interests have not always been directly related to his performing career. His undergraduate thesis at Hampshire College was entitled "Country Music and the Music Industry in Nashville, Tennessee: The Confused Identity of a Genre in a Culture of Commerce." His Masters thesis at Smith College, "Technology, Authenticity, and Nashville Sounds" continuned this research. He hopes that these two substantial papers will be the foundation for a book to be published in the near future. Other research interests include: the development of western tuning systems; power dynamics in cross-cultural musical exchanges between East and West; the relationship between performance context and cultural conceptions of music; the distinctions between "the work" "the score" and "the performance" in western classical art music and the relationship between those distinctions and the development of the virtuoso performance tradition 19th century Europe; Michael Jackson; Devo; Kraftwerk; and the life and work of innovative composer/pianist Mike Garson. Danny has been a graduate teaching assistant and tutor in music theory at California Institute of the Arts, where he also taught in the School of Theater. While he was a Teaching Fellow in the Smith College music department, he directed the aural skills program and founded the Smith College Rhythm Ensemble, an innovative class that employed an interdisciplinary approach to studying rhythm. Studying and performing music from sources as diverse as Balinese kecak, Steve Reich, and Stomp, the Rhythm Ensemble encouraged students to nurture a more highly developed and internalized sense of rhythm. In addition to maintaining a large studio of piano students in Los Angeles, Danny is currently on the faculty at The Conservatory of the Arts at The Center (Pasadena). He also teaches piano for the City of Pasadena Department of Recreation, and innovative music classes at The Oakwood School and The Academy of Creative Education. He was formerly Senior Musician in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, and he has also taught at California Music Academy and the Hollywood Pop Academy.