Danny holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in percussion from the Mannes College of Music, where he has been a faculty member since 1991. Besides performing and recording with the Johnny Rodgers Band, Danny is an active freelancer in the New York area, recording playing all styles of music. He has recently played on recordings with such artists as Ann Hampton Callaway, Michael Feinstein, Maureen McGovern, Amanda McBroome, Steven Shwartz, Susan Werner, Randy Brecker, Tom Harrel, Phobe Snow, Richard Baronne, Terry Roche, Susy Roche, Tracy Stark, Woody Mann, The Analogues, Lee Lessak, Brian Lane Green. Danny also has done recordings with Chatham Baroque on the Dorian label, he can be heard on Pifaro's Dorian recording and on "Perigee and Apogee" by composer Beata Moon. He has recorded and played the music of Alla Borzova with the Da Capo Chamber Players. He has performed with Jordi Saval's period orchestra, "Le Concert Des Nations," at Alice Tully Hall and the Library of Congress; The Baltimore Consort; The NY Collegium; AmorArtis Chorus and Baroque Orchestra; and with Paula Robison and Ken Cooper at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has performed with Chatham Baroque at the Berkeley Early Music Festival; the International Festival of Latin American Renaissance and Baroque Music in Bolivia; Pomona College, California; the Festival of Baroque Music in San Louis Potosi Mexico; and at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. For the past three summers, he has performed with groups such as Chatham Baroque, The Baltimore Consort, Nafidleiri, The Taylor Festival Choir, Charleston College Choir and Madrigal singers, Quartetto Brio and the Charleston Pro Musica at the Spoletto festival in SC. He also toured the South of France, recorded two CD's, and performed eighteen concerts and two radio broadcasts with the Charleston Pro Musica.
The tour of the South of France was the subject of a PBS documentary that aired in March 2002. He has played three solo percussion recitals at the Spoletto festival in Charleston SC.