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Musician Profile - Dan Sweeley
What is your hometown?
Lansing, Michigan
How long have you been with the BPO?
I started in the BPO in the fall of 2000
What is your favorite part of being a member of the BPO?
Getting to recreate the music I have been studying for many years of my life.
What is your favorite piece of music?
Mahler Symphony #6, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and anything by Richard Strauss.
What other orchestras have you performed with?
Chautauqua, Cincinnati, Dayton, Illinois, Jacksonville, Louisville and Syracuse
What types of music do you like to listen to?
In the car I mainly listen to sports talk or Howard Stern on satellite radio. If I listen to music it is rarely, if ever, Classical Music. I mainly listen to either Classic Rock or Progressive Rock.
Do you play any other instruments?
Not really. From time to time horn players are asked to play Wagner Tuba. I took many years of piano lessons as a youth but I have not played in years.
What do you like to do in your free time?
I watch and follow many sports. I'm a big Detroit Tigers fan, I follow the Sabres and Michigan football and watch all forms of auto racing. I also enjoy photography mainly focusing on Great Lakes Shipping.
What is your favorite movie?
I really like Rudy, The 40 Year Old Virgin and The Blues Brothers.
What is your favorite TV show?
I have so many: 24, CSI, Cops, The Office, Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers, Ax Men, and Wind Tunnel.
What is your favorite restaurant?
Locally my favorite would be either Santasiero's on the West Side for their Pasta Fasoola or Mytho's on Elmwood. Elsewhere my favorite is Skyline Chili in Cincinnati, OH. Its Cincinnati-style chili and I'm an addict. You can get it in a can at Wegman's, but its just not the same!
What do you like best about Buffalo?
The summer and the fall, living back in the Great Lakes region and the affordable housing market.
Biography
Dan Sweeley was appointed 2nd Horn of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2000. A native of Lansing, Michigan, he served six years as 2nd Horn in the Daytona Philharmonic Orchestra prior to his appointment in Buffalo, NY. He holds degrees in Horn Performance and Music Education from The University of Michigan and a Masters degree in Horn Performance from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. His primary teachers have included Louis Stout, Lowell Greer, Roland Pandolfi, Marie Speziale, Michael Hatfield and Randy Gardner.
He has performed with the Cincinnati, Louisville, Jacksonville, Syracuse and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestras. Sweeley was a featured guest artist at the 2001 Northeastern Horn Workshop in Hartford, CT. He was a prize winner in the 1994 American Horn Competition University Division. He has held teaching positions at the University of Dayton and SUNY Fredonia and has given Master Classes around the US.
His interests outside of music include Detroit Tigers baseball, Michigan football, all forms of auto racing and Great Lakes marine photography. He resides in Lake View, NY with his wife Sandy, a band director at Hamburg HS, and their cat Claudia.
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