Daniel Meinecke is a pianist and composer currently living in New Orleans, LA. Daniel was one of the recipients of the Detroit Jazz Festival’s New Voices Series in 2016. At that performance he premiered his Big Band project where he brought his original voice to a large ensemble format. Mr. Meinecke received his Masters of Music from Wayne State University in 2016. Mr. Meinecke’s original composition "In The Clouds" was featured by the Pan-American Detroit Big Band at the 2016 Panama Jazz Festival featuring Danilo Perez as a soloist. He now teaches piano and synthesizer in the Popular and Commercial Music Department at Loyola University New Orleans and has found success performing around the world with Quiana Lynell an award-winning jazz vocalist. He also performs his own original music in the New Orleans area as the Daniel Meinecke Ensemble.