Dan Costa (musician)


Daniel Greco Costa, known as Dan Costa, is a British jazz pianist and composer, known for his album Suite Três Rios.

Education

Costa was born in London, England, to Italian and Portuguese parents, with roots in Sorrento and Porto. He studied classical piano at the Académie de Musique Rainier III prior to taking a diploma at Sir Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He studied jazz piano at the Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espetáculo in Portugal, graduating with distinction and a Rotary Club Award for outstanding achievement. During his course, he was also awarded a grant to study Brazilian music at UNICAMP in São Paulo, Brazil as an international exchange student. He pursued further studies at Berklee College of Music with a scholarship for academic excellence.

Career

Costa's career took off when he recorded his debut album Suite Três Rios in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, considered one of the best albums of 2016 by DownBeat. Dubbed "a finely crafted album" by critic Carlo Wolff, it was amongst the best-selling albums on the iTunes Portugal Chart and peaked at number 5 on the Roots Music Report Jazz Chart in the United States. The track "Bossa Nova " was Top 10 on the Jazz Song Chart. He worked with Jaques Morelenbaum, Leila Pinheiro, Marcos Suzano, Ricardo Silveira, Rafael Barata and Jan Erik Kongshaug, amongst others.
He recorded his new album Skyness, at Arte Suono, Italy, in 2018, with Nelson Faria, Roberto Menescal, Romero Lubambo, Seamus Blake, Custodio Castelo and Teco Cardoso. Described as "rare and luxurious" by All About Jazz, it was released at the Blue Note in Rio de Janeiro and featured in a documentary by Radio Monte-Carlo in Milan, Italy. The track "Compelling" was featured by Jazziz magazine in their Summer Breezin' 2019 compilation.
Costa has performed in Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, Egypt, Brazil, Malta, Spain, Greece, Armenia, Lebanon and India, where he was featured and interviewed by Rolling Stone, as well as India Today in view of his tour of the country in 2019.

Discography