Daniel Levitan's compositions are favorites of percussion enbsembles throughout the United States and around the world, and many have become standards of the percussion literature.

Levitan studied composition at Bennington College with Henry Brant, Vivian Fine, and Marta Ptazynska. He later studied tabla with Phil Ford and Ray Spiegel, conga and Latin percussion with Frank Malabe, and mallets with Tom Hemphill.

He has received commissions for solo, chamber, and orchestra works from the Kronos Quartet, the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Marimolin, Manhattan Marimba Quartet, Frank Malabe and Central Park's Summerstage, Kotekan, Larry Snider, James Preiss Solo Marimba Commissioning Project, Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, and the National Endowment for the Arts joint commissioning project, with Douglas Walter, David Samuels, and Ted Piltzecker. Theater and dance commissions include works composer for Theatre for a New Audience, Uris/Bahr Dancers, and Trina Moore and Dancer.

His "Concertino for Marimba with Percussion Orchestra" won first place in the 1978 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest. His music is published by Keyboard Percussion and C. Alan Publications.

Website: http://DanLevitanMusic.com