Dan Costa '10 year anniversary tour'

He studied classical piano as well as jazz piano at the Académie de Musique Rainier III in Monaco for six years prior to taking a diploma at Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He then focused on jazz at the Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espetáculo in Portugal, graduating with distinction and a Rotary Club Award for outstanding achievement.

During his course, he was also awarded a grant to study Brazilian music at UNICAMP in São Paulo, Brazil as an international exchange student, and pursued further studies at Berklee College of Music. He has released 3 studio albums – Suite Três Rios (2016), Skyness (2018) and Beams (2023) – a live solo album – Live in California (2020) – and two singles – Love Dance (2020) with Ivan Lins and Iremia (2022) with Randy Brecker. In 2025, he recorded new material with Ron Carter and Bob Mintzer. Costa has been featured by DownBeat, All About Jazz, Jazziz, BBC, Jazz FM, Sky News, 7News Australia, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung, Otago Daily Times, Jornal do Brasil, Globo, La Repubblica, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, Bangkok Post, Al Arab and Rolling Stone Magazine, amongst others.

A recipient of silver and gold medals at the Global Music Awards, Costa has performed on six continents and his music has been featured by FOUR PAWS in support of animal welfare. His music has been included in instructional material and he has done masterclasses at universities such as the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, Monash, Victoria University, Mahidol, University of Auckland, Australian National University, Canadian International School, University of New South Wales and Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Costa also has university degrees in philosophy (BA), applied linguistics (MA) and history (MA), and is currently pursuing his PhD studies at LMU Munich, Germany. He has worked extensively as an educator and has written for publications such as the Oxford Research Encyclopedias, the Journal of the Historical Association and Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he referred to tempo as “the heartbeat of expression”.