Dan Auerbach has been awarded prestigious awards, grants and scholarships from ASTA, AICF, Juilliard, Rutgers, CSI, CUNY, IMEA, GA-ASTA, GMEA, HNY, Frank & Lydia Bergen Foundation and other foundations and endowment funds. Most recently, as the conductor and co- director of the CSI Orchestra, Dr. Auerbach uses grant funds to promote community building by partnering with regional professional orchestras. The CSI Orchestra provides musical and cultural enriching experiences to students from Staten Island, many of whom are from Title I schools who otherwise would not have such an opportunity.

Students receive professional instruction and perform side-by-side with orchestra musicians. Such funds are also used to nurture young talent by supporting a strings competition, the only one of its kind on the island, enabling young middle school and high school winners to perform as soloists with the college orchestra, receive cash prizes, trophies, as well as mentions through various media channels. Currently, a music professor at CSI-CUNY, Dr. Auerbach has served on the faculties of the Juilliard Pre-College, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Blue Lake Summer Arts Festival & Camp, Morningside College and Georgia College and has worked with Roberta Guaspari and the Op. 118 Harlem School of Music. His students have gone on to win regional and All-State competitions and gain admittance to prestigious university Music departments, including Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Columbia University, as well as numerous CUNY colleges. As a conductor, Dr. Auerbach has been invited to conduct university and festival orchestras throughout the U.S., frequently combining solo recitals, masterclasses and presentations. His conducting mentor was Maestro Adrian Gnam of the Macon Symphony and former oboist with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell.

Dr. Auerbach’s educational endeavors are holistic in nature and stretch beyond the college curriculum. He has 30 years of experience teaching at all grade levels. A certified K-12 strings instructor by the NJ Board of Education, Dr. Auerbach further fosters community relations through local partnerships with area schools. As a strings instructor at Port Richmond H.S. and Curtis H.S., both Title I schools, he oversees the development of young musicians who otherwise would not have the opportunity for any kind of advanced musical studies. Past partnerships include Early College, as part of an outreach program led by Georgia College; numerous clinics through the Georgia American String Teachers Association, held in Savannah and Athens, GA; clinics and appearances at the IMEA, GMEA, as well as serving as a guest clinician at the NY American String Teachers Association. Most recently, he is proud to serve as a math tutor for nurses’ children, as part of a CUNY-NYSNA effort to support nurses in NYC battling the COVID-19 pandemic.