Daniel “Sky” Szczepanski is a trumpet player based in New York City, born in 1993 in Warsaw, Poland.

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     Currently Daniel is promoting his debut album “Introduction to The Sky” as well as performing as a bandleader with his Modern Bop Quintet and as a sideman on the most prestigious and historic clubs and bars of the New York City where he is living since 2022. Daniel was awarded with a very prestigious grant by the Ministry of Culture in Poland due to his past achievements, he also received a prize from Downbeat Magazine for an outstanding solo performance and was the winner of many competitions inside the country back in the early school years. In the spring of 2020 Daniel graduated from Berklee Global Jazz Institute with a Master’s degree in Music. Berklee helped him not only with improving his abilities in performance, but also in composing and in the field of social change, music education and awareness.

 

     In 2019 he received a Bachelor’s degree from Berklee College of Music and in the same year enrolled in a Master’s Program created by Berklee Global Jazz Institute where he afterwards started studying with Jazz masters such as Joe Lovano or Danilo Perez. Over the last years Daniel has been performing with musicians such as Kenny Werner, Kevin Harris, Benito Gonzalez, Jason Palmer, (R.I.P.) Zbigniew Namysłowski, Dayna Stephens or Stacy Dillard. In the same year he became a music assistant to (R.I.P.) Ralph Peterson and arranged his tune “Forth and Back” which made it on the “Onward and Upward” album, which was considered for a Grammy Nomination.