Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1956, Daniel Jencka has been playing the harpsichord since age sixteen. He studied with early
keyboard artist Penelope Crawford, and with Early Music performer and scholar Lyle Nordstrom. Daniel started writing music
as a teenager and later studied composition with American composer Stanley Hollingsworth.
Daniel’s playing experience was taken to the professional level in over one hundred concert performances in the environs of
Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in Windsor, Canada. He co-founded (with recorder and Baroque flute player, Thomas
Cirtin,) Flauto e Basso, the Baroque Duo, that repeatedly attracted large audiences at The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Henry
Ford Museum, and other major chamber music venues and series. Daniel also played with the Detroit Symphony Bassoon
Quartet, and with the Renaissance City Orchestra under Misha Rachlevsky. Daniel moved to Bloomington, Indiana, and later to
Atlanta, Georgia, continuing to perform in original instrument ensembles such as Le Nuove Musiche. After relocating to
southern California he co-founded Duo Galánt with Baroque flutist Fred Kasper. Here are some program covers from various
performances and ensembles.
