Dan Bryan is Chair of Secondary Music for Modesto City Schools and Chair for the Visual and Performing Arts School  at Joseph Gregori High School in Modesto, California. He serves on the Boards for the Central Valley Guard and Percussion Circuit, Stanislaus County Music Educators Association, and California Band Director’s Association. He acts as an adjudicator and clinician for several schools and organizations around the country, including Western Band Association and Drum Corps international.

He is an eight time Winter Guard International World Championship Medal winner as an instructor/composer, and his music and instructional book are published internationally through Key Poulan Music, Shawn Glyde Music, GPG Publications, and Extreme Brass and Percussion. His band programs at both Los Banos High School (WGI World Championship Finalist) and Grace M. Davis High School (3 time WBA State Finalist) have been regionally and nationally recognized for their excellence.

Dan’s other instructional highlights include: Fred C. Beyer High School (1990 – 1993), Clovis West High School (1994), CSU Fresno Marching Band (1994 – 1998), Sacramento Freelancers Winter Drumline (1997 – 2000; WGI World Champion, 1998), Modesto High School Percussion Ensemble (1998 – 2003, WGI Open Class Medalist 2001 – 2003), and Modesto Junior College (2006 – 2009).

He is a graduate of Modesto Junior College and CSU, Fresno, where he performed as principal and co-principal percussionist in the wind and percussion ensembles. He is a former member of DCI Finalist (1989, 1992) Sacramento Freelancers, where he performed in both the horn line and front ensemble.  His teachers include Don Silva (Sacramento Freelancers), Tad Carpenter (Sacramento Freelancers), Carol Carpenter (Sacramento Freelancers), Ralph Hardimon (Sacramento Freelancers), Dr. Matt Darling (CSU, Fresno), and Dr. Gary P. Gilroy (CSU, Fresno).

He serves as an advisor/instructor for Gottschalk's Music, and the Italian National Champion Millennium Drum and Bugle Corps of Milan, Italy. Dan was honored to be a composer for the 2008 Olympic Mass Band.

Dan’s recent work includes serving as a clinician for the 2009 WGI Independent A Class Finalist eNVision percussion (Reno, NV), and working on new projects for Wayne Downey’s  (Concord Blue Devils) Extreme Brass and Percussion.