Performance: Exploring Dalí in Sound
May 21 @ 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Step into a world where sound meets surrealism in this evocative live performance, as composer and pianist Daniel Kelly transforms Salvador Dalí’s visionary works into spontaneous musical expression.
As Dalí’s iconic images fill the theater, audiences are invited to see more deeply while Kelly responds in real time with bold solo piano improvisations blending jazz and classical influences. The result is a vivid, multi-sensory journey where paintings become music and imagination takes flight. Both intimate and expansive, Exploring Dalí in Sound offers a strikingly original way to experience one of the world’s most imaginative artistic legacies.
Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater
Cost: $10 tickets
Gallery access is not included.
Daniel Kelly
Pianist & Composer
Daniel Kelly is a pianist and composer celebrated for his “visionary imagination” and genre-defying work at the crossroads of music, literature and visual art. Through innovative multimedia programs such as Shakespeare in Jazz, Blind Visionaries and Rakonto, he reimagines the concert experience as an immersive, collaborative art form. Known for performances that are both deeply expressive and strikingly original, Kelly has appeared at concert halls, museums and cultural institutions nationwide.
His work invites audiences into a shared creative experience, transforming inspiration from across disciplines into music that is immediate, emotional and alive. Kelly’s music has been called “powerfully moving” by Time Out New York. He has performed with GRAMMY-award-winning jazz artists Joe Lovano and Nicole Zuraitis, hip-hop star Lauryn Hill, the cutting-edge modern classical ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars, and a long list of jazz musicians including NEA Jazz Masters Dave Liebman and Sheila Jordan, Don Byron, Donny McCaslin and many others.
Learn more here.
