Guest Musician - 2021 Summer Intensive
Stahv Danker was born in Los Angeles and raised in Israel by a very artistic family. Stahv specializes in Drums and Piano. He was accepted to the Israeli Defense Force Musical Collective, where he experienced many different performance settings. Upon the ending of his IDF service he started his musical education at the New School extension for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv, Israel. Stahv was accepted with scholarship to the Jazz Department of the New School in New York, where he earned his BFA in Jazz and Contemporary music. Soon after, Stahv was selected to perform a two-week residency at the “Bern Jazz Festival” in Switzerland. In 2019 Stahv was the drummer of the off Broadway “the Office: A Musical Parody” show. He began accompanying professional dance classes as a percussionist and pianist in the leading dance schools in NY such as: Martha Graham Dance School (Peggy Lyman Hayes), the Julliard School (Milton Myers), Peridance Capezio Center, Steps on Broadway and Gibney Dance. He is currently composing his own album for Modern dance.
