Guitarist Daniel Quinn, maintains an active performing and teaching carreer. Over the past fifteen years he has performed as a soloist in many recitals around the United States, Canada, and Japan. Daniel has been teaching guitar for twenty years at colleges such as the Indiana University School of Music, The Tokyo College of Music, and Huntington College. He is currently an instructor of guitar at the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Daniel completed his doctoral degree in Guitar Performance and Literature at the Indiana University school of Music in 2003. His dissertation was about Guitar music from Japan. He has been invited to give recitals and lectures on this subject at such venues as the Guitar Foundation of America Convention at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Irino Center in Tokyo Japan, Hastings College Nebraska, and the Cincinnati Conservatory of music Summer Guitar Workshop. An article by Daniel has been published for Soundboard magazine on Guitar music from Japan in October of 2005 (Volume XXXI (31) No. 1). For over ten years Daniel has performed works by Japanese composer such as: Yoshie Okawara, Takayuki Oguri, Kazuko Hara, Yasuhiko Tsukamoto, Masao Homma, Hirokazu Sato, Toru Takemitsu, Akira Ifukube, Satoshi Tanaka, Yoshiro Irino, Keigo Fujii, Moreshige Takei, Ryo Noda, Mao Yamagishi, Toru Aki, Teruyuki Noda, Ryuichi Horikoshi, Fukuda Rando, Takashi Ogawa, as well as many folk, popular, and Enka song arrangements and koto music. See the next section for more composers from Japan.

Although Daniel has focused on music from Japan, his programs span the entire range of music from the classical guitar repertoire.

Daniel has been an active proponent of new music for the guitar. He has premiered many new works at the June in Buffalo festival, for the Japan Federation of Composers in Tokyo, The Midwest New Music Symposium, Society of Composers, Inc., as well as many of the Indiana University Hammer/Nail project recitals, and composition recitals. He has premiered new works by: Gordon Williamson: Three Sketches (2000) and Music for Flute, Guitar and Cimbalom (2002), Garrett Byrnes: Perpetual Moments (2001) and Three pieces for Flute and Guitar (1999), Daniel Gilman: Kokai (1999), Kazu Munakata: Requiem 9/11(2003), Victoria Malawey: Winter (2001), John Gurino: About fruit, About eating, About eating fruit (1994), Michiharu Matsunaga: Timescape in a Dream (2001), John Ferguson: Interlude (1999) and Hooked on a Climax! (1995), Satoshi Ohmae: Spacing (2002), Kevin Hiatt: Rokodan no Shirabe (1997), Catherina Palmer: Floating (2000). In February of 2006 he performed Sonata Wind by Yasuhiko Tsukamoto at Suntory hall in Tokyo to celebrate the publication of this score (JFC-0517).

This is a video recording from "The Legend of Hagoromo" by Keigo Fujii, recorded live at the Toledo Museum of Art in 2006. Click here to play this video file, or download to your computer