Born in New York and raised in California, DANIEL KOPPELMAN has gained experience with many different musical traditions—classical and popular, composed and improvised, acoustic and electronic—which has led him to explore their intersections in search of new possibilities for performing, teaching, and creating music. Koppelman's current performance interests include various real-time controllers in conjunction with Cycling '74's Max/MSP and STEIM's LiSa (live sampling) software, digital signal processing of acoustic piano, and the multiple keyboard ensemble duo runedako (with Ruth Neville). He has recorded for CRI, New World Records, Neuma Records, Capstone, SEAMUS and C74; he recently released Escapement, a 2-disc CD/DVD set of 21st Century music for piano and electronics, which Keyboard Magazine called "engaging, intelligent, and unpretentious." Koppelman holds degrees from San Francisco State University (B.M.), Indiana University (M.M.), and the University of California at San Diego (Ph.D.), where he was a Regents Fellow; his piano teachers have included Wayne Peterson, James Tocco, Cecil Lytle and Aleck Karis. Currently Associate Professor and Director of Music Technology at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, Koppelman has been a resident artist at STEIM in Amsterdam, the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts in La Jolla, CA. In 2008 he will be lecturing and performing in and around Odessa, Ukraine on a Fulbright Scholarship.