Reviews of recent performances:
		Premiere of Causerie by Sequitur, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC       "Daniel Koontz scored his Causerie (2005) for the unusual combination of piano, accordion, guitar and percussion, and gave each player fragmentary, pointillistic lines that yield appealingly tactile textures.  The scoring is light and delicate at first, but Mr. Koontz gradually increases the weight and density of each instrument's line so that eventually the individual contributions merge into an explosive whole"                       Allan Kozinn, The New York Times                       April 18, 2007
		Improvements for Piano, MATA Festival, Brooklyn Lyceum Brooklyn, NY Simon Docking, piano       "The pianist Simon Docking mastered six of Daniel Koontz's 12 Improvements for Piano, a series of treacherous, headlong tumbles and a charmingly nostalgic waltz."                       Steve Smith, The New York Times                       March 22, 2007
		Premiere of The Life of Towns by the Choral Society of the Hamptons July 10, 2004       "I was stunned into silence at the end of the work....And while the appeal of Mr. Koontz's music may not be explicable, in that sense it is like the poems themselves.  After all, a poem does not have to mean, but be."                       David Swickard, The East Hampton Star                       July 15, 2004