Daniel J. Sullivan III

Daniel J. Sullivan (DJ) is a jazz/improvisational pianist, composer and music educator originally from St. Croix, USVI. DJ holds a Bachelor of Music in Theory, a Master of Music in Theory and an Orff-Schulwerk Certificate from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. His initial piano training began in St. Croix where he studied with Robert Glover, Marsha Shuman and Isabel Mason. At SMU he continued his piano studies with Sam Holland and Alfred Mouledous.

Currently, DJ is the music director at Morningside United Methodist Church Ft. Worth, Texas, the music director for the Choreo Records Tap Company Dallas, Texas and the music teacher for Magnolia Montessori Tutoring Duluth, Georgia. He also teaches online private piano lessons in jazz, classical and contemporary music.

As a jazz pianist he performs regularly for the SMU Tate Lecture series, the Hockaday School development events, the Dallas Arboretum Garden of Music series as well other venues and concert series in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. DJ was featured in August 2014 in the St. Croix Chamber of Commerce Jazz in the Park concerts series in Christiansted with the Eddie Russell Jazz Ensemble. He has also performed and directed his jazz duo ensemble for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Casual Fridays concerts series pre and post concert performance for the 2009-2013 seasons. In 2009 DJ recorded a CD of original compositions, The Old Man and the Sea.

As a piano and Orff-Schulwerk teacher DJ has taught at the Hockaday School Dallas, Texas, Pebblecreek Montessori School Allen, Texas, Pegasus Charter School Dallas, Texas and the Zhen Music and Arts Institute Dallas, Texas.

DJ lives in Dallas where he enjoys skating at the local skateparks with his son. In the summers DJ returns to St. Croix to direct and teach a music summer program at the St. Croix Montessori School and surf his favorite home breaks.