DANA LYN
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Third Stream • United States

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Dana Lyn has performed at such prestigious venues as the Beacon Theater, Carnegie Hall and Town Hall, as well as folk festivals (and dive bars) the world over. As a violinist, she is at home in multiple music worlds, ranging from classical/contemporary classical to folk, new and improvisatory music. Along with appearances on Saturday Night Live and the Conan O’Brien Show, she was cast as an onstage musician in the Public Theatre’s 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet, in the first season of The Bridge Project, co-produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Old Vic and directed by Academy-Award winner Sam Mendes, and most recently in the New Group’s production of Clive, directed by Ethan Hawke. Lyn is also an esteemed fiddle player in the Irish tradition and was featured on The Raw Bar and Geanntrai, two documentaries on traditional Irish music that read more...