Daniel Brink

Lecturer in Music
1997-

Part-time Lecturer in Music and Instructor in Piano

1987-97

Education:
B.S., University of Southern Colorado, 1979
M.M., University of Colorado-Boulder, 1992

Daniel Brink joined the performance faculty at Colorado College in 1987 and was appointed to the full-time faculty as a Lecturer in Music in 1997. Dan participates in music academics teaching Pre-Theory, Ear Training and Music in Western Culture. In the performance arena he teaches private and class piano, accompanies CC choral ensembles, serves as accompanist/coach for CC student vocalists and conducts the CC Chamber Orchestra. He has taught on the faculty of the Colorado College Vocal Arts Symposium, and as part of CC's Summer Session since its inception in 1999.

Outside CC, Dan serves as Assistant Conductor of the Colorado Springs Chorale, and Artistic Director and Conductor of the Choral Society's small ensemble, Mosaic. He also serves as Accompanist/Coach and Music Director for Opera Theater of the Rockies, and frequently performs in recital with singers from throughout Colorado.

Dan has published several books on opera with Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, New York. He is also well-known as an arranger in the Pikes Peak region, having arranged for the Colorado Springs Symphony and the Colorado Springs Chorale, as well as numerous other chamber ensembles. He is frequently called upon to adjudicate piano competitions for CMEA and area music organizations, and has served as a judge for the regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions.

Dan is a member of the NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), the American Conductors Guild, and owing to the involvement of his two teenage children, is a member of the US Figure Skating Association, with which he has been deeply involved over the past ten years.