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Daniel Cantor is a Professor at Berklee College of Music in both the Songwriting as well as the Music Production & Engineering departments. He has won numerous ASCAP Awards as a composer and has owned Notable Productions in Watertown since 1987. Notable is one of the premier recording studios in the Northeast. Featuring a 1979 Neve console and host of other vintage toys, it has been home to over 1000 albums and commercial productions with clients as diverse as Aerosmith, Talib Kweli, Thomas Mapfumo, Peggy Seeger, Al Gore, NPR, Microsoft, Omar Offendum, Poetic Pilgrimage, Biohazard, MTV, Great Big Story, America Repertory Theatre, Motor City Museum and Staples. 

Dan’s educational work includes classes, guest lectures and consulting for Nomadic Wax Records, US.A.I.D, Boston University, UN Peacekeeping, Tufts University, and MIT.  Dan runs the Pro Tools User Group for Boston and is hired to upgrade studio and live rigs for pro use and advices brand name audio companies on features and usability. Dan received Berklee’s prestigious Fly Grant in 2016 for his work initiating student-artist collaborations with Global Hip-Hop performers from Iraq, Syria and London on the Boston campus  to promote diversity, global understanding, and social change. In 2005 Dan helped establish the Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival, which now, in its 11th season, has featured and recorded artists like K’Naan, KRS1, The Narcycist and Dead Prez. Dan won the Soberano award for best album of the year in 2015 as well as multiple CARA and BoHSA’s for producing many College and High School A cappella albums.  He is currently the AES Faculty advisor at Berklee College of Music and is proud to support young engineers though mentoring and Notable internships.