Dan Hartung is a percussionist and educator in the Boston area. He is the founder of the Austin Percussion Collective (APC) and recently served as the Assistant Professor of Music, Percussion Coordinator, and Assistant Director of Bands at Elon University.

Dan regularly performs as a solo, chamber, and orchestral percussionist across the United States. He has a tenacious passion for collaborating and performing with friends, colleagues, and composers leading him to commission over 20 new works for percussion and help create multiple performing ensembles including Stone’s Throw Quartet, Flat Water Trio, LNK Percussion, and the Austin Percussion Collective. Dan has also served as principal percussionist for The Orchestra San Antonio having performed for Opera San Antonio, Ballet San Antonio, and the 2024 Andrea Bocelli World Tour. 

Since 2014, Dan has been active as a marching percussion educator with some of the most highly competitive high school and collegiate programs across the country. In 2017, he marched snare drum with the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps and has since taught  James Bowie High School, Vista Ridge High School, Gretna High School, the Michigan State University and University of Texas at Austin drumlines, and in 2024 served as the Percussion Director of the Tarpon Springs Leadership Conservatory for the Arts.

Dan is also passionate about studying Afro-Caribbean percussion genres from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. He has studied Afro-Cuban percussion 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, Jaime and Yuniscleyvis Ramos. Additionally, he has performed with the Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba group Tambores del Pueblo and he regularly participates in Afro-Venezuelan Tambor celebrations with San Juan USA in New York and Miami.

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.). His collegiate mentors include 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 and a member of the Black Swamp Percussion Educator Network.