Daniel Nerger is a recording artist, pianist, record producer, composer and music educator based around Boston, MA. He received his undergraduate degree from The BostonConservatory at Berklee in Piano Performance in 2019. While there, in addition to his extensive study of solo and chamber repertoire, he also worked as a music director, pit player, and piano teacher. While still at school he also starting teaching at Musicians Playground, a music studio located in downtown Boston, where he eventually became the lead piano instructor, a position he still currently holds. Since graduating, he has branched off into the larger spheres of composition and electronic music, in the process starting Out to Lunch Records, an experimental record label and art collective, the main ambition of which is to give its artists complete creative control over their work. Through the label, Daniel released his debut album under the moniker Respites from Silence in January of 2021, a project he wrote and produced. Later that year, he also wrote and produced an album with the pop duo he is 50% of called Augmented Returns, as well as another album with experimental noise duo t.P. H