As a pianist, Dunn studied with Byron Janis. He has performed world-wide and regularly records for NAXOS.
As an orchestrator and advocate for American film and cross-over composers, Dunn made his Carnegie Hall debut performing his own orchestration of Vernon Duke’s ‘lost’ piano concerto. Other projects include work on the restoration of Gershwin’s 1935 performance version of PORGY AND BESS for Decca, and orchestration supervision of Danny Elfman’s ballet RABBIT AND ROGUE for Tywla Tharp and the ABT.
In 1999, Lukas Foss appointed Dunn Associate Music Director for the Music Festival of the Hamptons, where Dunn earned considerable critical praise.” All of the elements came together to give the audience an experience closer to heaven than most of us will get in this lifetime…I cannot praise Mr. Dunn’s conducting too highly. “ Dunn subsequently has held posts with Glimmerglass and Pittsburgh operas and has been with the LA Philharmonic’s Hollywood Bowl Orchestra since 2007.