Dan Lipton

Pianist & Music Director for Kelli O’Hara

Longtime music director for Kelli O’Hara, Mr. Lipton conducted The Band’s Visit and Sting’s musical The Last Ship on Broadway. He has arranged music and led bands for Mandy Gonzalez, Santino Fontana, Judy Kuhn, Brian d’Arcy James, Martha Plimpton, John Lithgow and Audra McDonald, performing at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, on PBS Great Performances, Today, Late Show with David Letterman and with symphony orchestras across the country. Music supervision and orchestrations: An Officer and a Gentleman (US tour), The Other Josh Cohen (off-Broadway), The Drama Desk Awards. Music direction and onstage musician: Twyla Tharp’s How Long Blues (Little Island) under supervisor T Bone Burnett, The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard (Broadway). He scored the film All These Small Moments starring Molly Ringwald and his piano playing is heard on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Rebecca Hall’s film Passing and three Grammy-nominated albums. With David Rossmer, he wrote the song “They Don’t Let You In The Opera (If You’re A Country Star)” for Kelli O’Hara, and “How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?” for O’Hara and Sutton Foster. Stream his latest collection of jazz-pop covers with singer Colby Beserra, Jukebox Saloon Vol. 2 and visit danlipton.com.