Dan Hartung is a percussionist and educator in the Tampa Bay area. He is the Percussion Director at the Tarpon Springs Leadership Conservatory for the Arts and the founder and artistic director of the Austin Percussion Collective (APC), an organization that has created a network of over 40 local percussion educators, freelancers, composers, students, and professors in Austin, TX.

Dan has a longstanding commitment to commissioning new music. Since 2017, he has commissioned over 20 new works by composers including Ian Whillock, Darian Thomas, Sophie Mathieu, Ivan Trevino, and Louis Raymond-Kolker. As an active performer, he has served as principal percussionist for The Orchestra San Antonio, Opera San Antonio, Ballet San Antonio, and the Classical Music Institute Orchestra for the Andrea Bocelli World Tour in 2023. 

Dan is also passionate about studying Afro-Diasporic percussion. He studies batá, güiro, and rumba in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba with renowned musicians Octavio Rodríguez Rivera, Miguel Bernal, Michel Aldalma, Miguelito León, and members of the Latin Grammy Award winning Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. Additionally, he has performed with Tambores del Pueblo, an Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba group, the Austin West African Drum and Dance Company, and has participated in Afro-Venezuelan Tambor celebrations with San Juan New York City and San Juan USA.

Dan has earned degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (D.M.A.), Michigan State University (M.M.) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (B.M.E.). He has been fortunate to study with some of the foremost collegiate educators including Dave Hall, Gwen Dease, Jon Weber, Kevin “Bujo” Jones, Ivan Trevino, Richard Huntley, and Tom Burritt. Dan is an endorsing education artist for Vic Firth sticks and mallets and Zildjian cymbals.