Since the age of 15, Dan Liberatori has been playing and teaching music out of Toronto, Canada. It was early on, while playing with the classic rock cover band SAND for parties, festivals, and competitions, in front of crowds numbering in the hundreds and even thousands, that music became a way of life.
Dan has performed at concert halls in Boston, art galleries in Buenos Aires, and even as far as Alaska, Ireland, England, Morocco, and the Netherlands. He has shared the stage with the likes of singers Clint Holmes (Chosen "Best All-Around Las Vegas Performer", and "Best Singer" by the Las Vegas Review-Journal), George Solomon (Winner: "Las Vegas Entertainment Personality of the Year"), and Alfreda Gerald (Yanni, Celine Dion), comedian Jim Labriola (Home Improvement), and Black Tie (Winners: 1991 MO Award as Best Australian Cabaret Act).
Closer to home, Dan performs around Toronto with Protocol, a rock/jazz fusion band with a focus on strong melodies, high-energy grooves, and instrumental virtuosity. Dan is also a member of the Big Smoke Big Band, Canadian Idol Top 14 finalist Nancy Silverman's band, and Thane St. Andrew's band. As a composer and arranger, Dan has been awarded the 2007 Ron Collier Award For Arranging and Composition, and has written the Spanish lyrics for Joseph DeBenedictis's song Feel The Game which was featured as the theme song for CHIN Radio's Polemica Deportiva.
Dan is a graduate of Humber College's jazz guitar profile program under the tutelage of Ted Quinlan, Geoff Young, and Toni Zorzi. You can catch him playing and teaching around the GTA weekly.