Road to Open Hand Jazz Fest ft. Dan Costa

About the event

In the lead up to the 2nd edition of the wildly successful 'Open Hand Jazz Fest', the Tri-City's first international jazz festival, they're bringing you stellar jazz acts to warm you up for the big festival at the end of the year.

Praised for his musical sensibility by DownBeat Magazine and All About Jazz, Dan Costa was born in 1989 in London (UK) to a Portuguese and Italian family. He initially studied classical piano for six years at the Académie de Musique Rainier III in the south of France and underwent further classical training at the Académie Internationale d’Été de Nice as well as at the Aurora Music Star Festival in Sweden. He was awarded a diploma with merit at Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in the UK. His strong interest in his Latin roots coupled with his passion for jazz led him to study at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo in Portugal, where he graduated in jazz piano with an award for outstanding achievement, bestowed upon him by Rotary Club Porto-Foz in 2015. During his course, he was also awarded a merit grant to study Brazilian music at UNICAMP – Universidade Estadual de Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil).