about đạo...

Dao Tran is a Boston-based composer, arranger, producer, and jazz pianist from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His music mixes influences from all genres and types of music to produce a truly unique sound. Whether its big band, acappella, film scores, commercials, or beats, Tran adapts to different musical needs in an organic, modern, and soulful way.

 

As of now, Tran has arranged acappella charts for the acappella group On The Vox, an award winning acappella group at Berklee College of Music. He has also arranged and composed for big band and smaller horn ensembles for the current major he is enrolled in, at Berklee College of Music. Specifically, Tran is a 7th semester dual major in Jazz Composition and Contemporary Writing and Production.

 

Tran has also produced performance sets on the hardware samplers and is proficient in using Logic Pro as both a main and supplementary tool to aid in his music creation. 

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Tran began his interest in music during freshman year of high school, where he first found joy improvising on jazz piano. After enrolling into Berklee, Tran began to make more experimental music with Logic Pro, and sampling based music with the SP404OG. During this period, Tran started messing around with the SP404mkII, which his roommate just recently got at the time. This small interaction led to Tran's further infatuation with sampling based music, and he got the older SP404OG to continue this exploration.

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Tran's sound has been described as a unique blend of Oliver Nelson, Gerry Mulligan, Vardan Ovsepian, Singer's Unlimited, and Jacob Collier. Regarding Tran's electronic/produced music, the blend includes Mndsgn, Flying Lotus, J Dilla, and Nujabes. 

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Other than music, Tran's passion extends to other hobbies as well: home cooking and mixed martial arts. Moreover, Tran has integrated philosophies from these disconnected disciplines into his music: chopping beats on the SPs to make music that is either comfort food or gourmet, or produce a track that is based on the progression of a sparring match (in his track called "Spar").

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As of now, he is open to collaborating on screen scoring, or video game scoring projects! Just reach out in the "Contact" section