DanBerry

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An Interactive Concert Experience where Kabbalah and Improv collide.

Live solo piano, Jewish musical tradition, and an audience that steps into the role of co-creator. Built for synagogues, federations, and Jewish communities ready to host a night their members will still be talking about a year later.

Dan in performance
Hands on the keys

What makes this different

Your community doesn't just attend the concert. They compose it.

The Lettric finale

Hebrew letters → live music.

Audience members submit names, phrases, or memories through Dan's custom musical-cryptogram app. Every letter is already a note. Dan improvises the piece live, in real time, right there in the room.

Yours to keep

Optional recording, handed to your community.

The closing improvisation can be recorded and gifted back to the booking organization, a one-of-one artifact made from your community's own voice. Share it, archive it, play it on Shabbat. It's yours.

The arc of the night

75 minutes. Three movements.

  1. Act I

    Live solo piano + storytelling.

    Original works, traditional motifs, and in-the-moment improvisation, woven together with stories about the music, its roots, and the creative practice behind it. The audience isn't just watching; they're being let in.

  2. Act II

    Dialogue with the room.

    Open conversation between Dan and the audience. Questions, requests, threads to pull on. The shape of the night starts to belong to everyone in the space.

  3. Finale

    Your community becomes the composer.

    Using Dan's custom Lettric app, audience members offer Hebrew names, phrases, or words on the spot. Each letter maps to a note. Dan plays the resulting motifs live, improvising a piece that's literally built from your community's voice. It's never been heard before. It will never be heard again. Optional recording handed back to the booking community as a keepsake.

Built for

Jewish communities who want more than a recital.

  • Synagogues
  • Jewish federations
  • Chabad houses
  • Hillel chapters
  • JCCs & cultural centers
  • Day schools & yeshivas
  • Donor & lay-leader events

The concert format is just as comfortable opening a federation campaign event, anchoring a synagogue's arts series, or closing a Chabad-house retreat. The Lettric finale gives the host community a moment they own, one no other booking can replicate.

Practical

The things you're about to ask.

What kind of room does this work in?
Sanctuaries, social halls, salons, classrooms, atriums. Anywhere with a piano (or where we can bring one) and an audience of 30–500. The format scales gracefully up and down.
Do you provide the piano and sound?
Sound reinforcement can be arranged when needed. For piano, Dan plays whatever you have, and if you don't have one, we'll coordinate a rental together. The Lettric app runs on phones audience members already have in their pockets.
How long is a typical concert?
75–90 minutes is the sweet spot. We can shape it to fit your program.
How do we book?
Use the form below or write Dan directly. Plan on 6–12 weeks of lead time for the best calendar windows.

Ready when you are

Let's give your community a night they keep.

Tell Dan a little about your community, the date you're eyeing, and what you're hoping the night feels like. He writes back personally.

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