 |
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
Composers BureauDaniel DorffBiography Daniel Dorff's music has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch, commissioned four times by the Philadelphia Orchestra's education department and twice by the Minnesota Orchestra's Kinder Konzert series which has performed his music over 100 times. Dorff's works have also been performed by the Baltimore Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and Eastman Wind Ensemble; chamber concerts of the Chicago Symphony, St. Louis Symphony and Oregon Symphony; on the 1998 Chicago Symphony Radiothon, by clarinetists of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic, and by pianist Marc-André Hamelin, clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, and flutists Mimi Stillman and Gary Schocker. Other commissions have come from the Colorado Symphony's Up Close and Musical series, Sacramento Symphony, Young Audiences, Ithaca College School of Music, Haddonfield Symphony, Network for New Music, National Flute Association Piccolo Committee, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, and other organizations. Dorff has also created arrangements for pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb. Premieres in 2002-03 included Nocturne Caprice for solo Flute [1st Prize winner of a 2003 MPA Paul Revere Award], Deep Funk Pt. 2: Dance Sonata for Solo Viola [1st prize winner of a 2003 Hvar Music Festival Award], and Say Hey! Homage to Willie Mays for Percussion Trio; in addition, the Philadelphia Orchestra's Sound All Around series premiered Dorff's Take The Orchestra Out to the Ballgame for narrator with mixed quintet. Other upcoming premieres include The Colors of Creation commissioned for the November 2003 Ithaca College Choral Festival, and commissions for the Philadelphia Orchestra's education department and for a June 2004 flute recital at Carnegie Hall. Other recent highlights include 8 performances by the Baltimore Symphony of The Tortoise and the Hare, and 2 performances of Blast Off! by the Philadelphia Orchestra in October 2003. Daniel Dorff serves as Director of Publications for Theodore Presser Company; he is a sought-after expert on music engraving and notation, having lectured at many colleges as well as Carnegie Hall, and advising the leading notation software companies. Dorff's compositions have been published by Theodore Presser Company, MMB Music Inc., Elkan-Vogel, Shawnee Press, Mel Bay, Kendor Music, Carl Fischer, Tenuto Publications, and Golden Music, and recorded on the Crystal, Silver Crest, Barking Dog, Capstone, Orange Note, Farao Classics, Northbranch, Sea Breeze, and Meister labels. Further Information
Contact Information 241 Strathmore Road Page 1 | Page 2 |
 |
||
|
Last updated
12/14/05 |
||||
|
||||