As a dance accompanist at Skidmore College, Daina choreographed and wrote music for their dance group, as well as studied piano with Impressionist specialist Professor Housman and later with Julia Ryauskas in New Jersey. -She has produced 4 albums from her vintage catalogues, one instrumental album, "Mystic Rendezvous" instrumental Daina and the Tribe, on which Daina plays impressionist compositions on synthesizer, with flute specialist Jeremy Steig. " Dear Jeremy Steig, On behalf of JAZZ FORUM, the magazine of the International Jazz Federation, I would like to congradulate you on being voted the world's top flutist in our 16th annual international 1982 JF Top People Poll.... Keep swinging, Pawel Brodowski, Editor-in-Chief" - See more at: http://www.jazzrockndance.com/press/#sthash.PCLwIKGB.dpuf- See more at: http://www.jazzrockndance.com/band_bio/#sthash.i7HChxhu.dpuf See more at: