Jeanann Dara is a force in modern creation, collaboration and performance. She has developed her own sound with modern viola performance, improvisation and composition. Engaging sounds and manipulating the instrument with extended techniques, she pulls from her strong classical training and invites the listener to participate in the dynamic range from silence to noise and the anticipation in between. Jeanann received her undergraduate degree from The Juilliard School where she held the position as teaching assistant and continued her education at New York University where she received her Masters degree in Multimedia Composition and New Media.

In 2012 she co-founded The Western Enisphere, an improvisational drone ensemble, with composer and performer David First using gestural Improvisation, a hypno-acoustical mix of microtonal drones, poly-rhythmic ratios, AM radio transmissions, and hallucinogenic visuals. She has performed and composed with some of the finest experimental and new music artists such as Brian Chase (YYY’s), Lea Bertucci, Sam Hilmer (Z’s), Zack Layton, John King, David Linton, Jherek Bischoff, Dary John Mizelle, Spencer c Yeh, the Cassatt Quartet, Nick Hallet (voice), Robert Dick (flute), Frances-Marie Uitti (cello), and Rachel Mason (performance art).

Her blending of genres between art and classical music has allowed her to perform original works in multiple galleries and performance spaces including The Stone, Issue Project Room, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, Carnegie Hall, Microscope Gallery, Signal Gallery, Reverse Gallery, ART BASEL Miami, and the Satellite Art Show Miami. 

Jeanann is a sought after violist playing the works of numerous artists including work done for and with Jonny Greenwood of (Radiohead), MONO, Max Richter at The Sydney Opera House, Australia, Nora Jones, Joanna Newsom, Jon Brion, and joined Bjork on stage in support of her New York City multi show residency. She is also a violist in multiple performance ensembles including The Wordless Music Orchestra and Soloists, SEM Ensemble, Anthony Braxton’s Tri Centric Orchestra, , Anti Social Music and Manhattan Camerata. Anti Social Music also premiered her work for String Quartet, Drum Kit and Voice in June 2016. 

In the summer of 2016 she created a live musical score to the Impossible Hour directed by Jorgen Leth with Simone and Amedeo Pace of Blonde Redhead premiered at San Damiano Mission.The same summer she was chosen to be a participant in electro acoustic research with the University of Padova as apart of the ECCOL project and was a chosen fellow to do interactive music and video research and performance with the Future Music Lab apart of Atlantic Music Festival in Waterville Maine, under the expertise of Mari Kimura. The Future Music Lab is a 4-week fellowship program with official collaboration with IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) Paris.

In September 2016 she is pleased releasing her double EP ENOUEMENT 1 & 2 an investigation of improvisation, song writing and composition. She is currently working on finishing a new collection of works to be released on Florabelle Records.