Daniel Léo Simpson is an award-winning American Composer. His music has now been performed to world-wide audiences in Japan, the Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, South Africa and the United Kingdom among others. He has a Masters degree in Music Composition from the University of Arizona. He holds both Elementary and Music Teaching Credentials from Arizona State University in addition to a K-12 California State Teaching Credential, and has taught in all classroom settings from kindergarten through junior college. He moved to California in 1990 and currently lives in San Carlos where he continues to compose and teach. He has a love of foreign languages and is currently studying Mandarin Chinese .