Dan Meyers is a flexible and engaging performer of both classical and folk music; his credits range from premieres of new chamber music, to headlining a concert series in honor of Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival, to playing Renaissance instruments on Broadway for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company. He is a founding member of the early music/folk crossover group Seven Times Salt, and in recent seasons he has performed with the The Folger Consort, The Newberry Consort, Hesperus, The Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Early Music New York, Amherst Early Music, The 21st Century Consort, In Stile Moderno, and the Cambridge Revels, making concert and theatrical appearances in New York City, Washington DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Memphis, Santa Fe, and southern Italy. As an educator, he teaches historical wind instruments for the Five Colleges Early Music Program in Massachusetts, and regularly tours with the Boston-based commedia dell'arte troupe Pazzi Lazzi, giving lectures and presentations on the history and performance practice of Italian Renaissance street theatre. He has also taught at Tufts University, for the Pinewoods Early Music Week, and at festivals around the Northeast. He enjoys playing southern Italian folk music with the award-winning band Newpoli, traditional Irish music with the bands Ulster Landing and Ishna, and eclectic fusion from around the Mediterranean with the new US/Italy-based group Zafarán. www.danmeyersmusic.com