Daniel Urbanowicz holds a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and a bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Urbanowicz is currently a violist in the Sarasota Orchestra. Dan has performed with the CCP since 2018, and has been a dedicated board and staff member since 2020.

Dan is the artistic director and founder of St Pete Baroque, which he founded in 2021. The group is dedicated to giving new life to old masterpieces and brings music of the baroque period to Tampa Bay.

Urbanowicz performs regularly with the Colorado Music Festival, Jacksonville Symphony, Southwest Florida Symphony. Additionally, Dan has played with the New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Atlantic Symphony, Gulfshore Opera, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, the Firelands Orchestra, and the Plymouth Philharmonic. 

Urbanowicz has served as principal violist of the Augusta Symphony, Charlottesville Opera, Gulfshore Opera, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra. As a historical performance musician, he has been a featured guest artist with the Colorado Chamber Players, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, College of Charleston’s Second Monday Series, and Augusta University as a guest lecturer and recitalist.

His principal teachers include Martha Katz and Jeffrey Irvine. Mr Urbanowicz plays on a 2017 Robert Clemens Viola. Urbanowicz’s viola d’amore is from the 19th century and is of unknown origin.