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Daniel Dorff |
Born: March 7, 1956
Born in New York and raised on Long Island, he earned degrees in composition from Cornell University (BA, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) and the University of Pennsylvania (MA), serving as a teaching fellow at the latter. His teachers included George Rochberg, George Crumb, Karel Husa, Elie Siegmeister, Ralph Shapey, Richard Wernick and Henry Brant. In addition, he studied saxophone with Sigurd Rascher and has appeared as soloist with the Sage City (VT) Symphony and performed with the Aspen Chamber Symphony.
Dorff has written major commissions for such organizations and events as the Sacramento Symphony, the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival, Cornell University, etc. He has also served as composer-in-residence at schools in the Philadelphia (PA) area.
In 1974 his "Fantasy, Scherzo and Nocturne" for saxophone quartet won first prize at the Aspen Music Festival's Composer's Competition, a work now used as a teaching piece by Eugene Rousseau and Sigurd Rascher. Other honors include two ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers (1981, 1983), two Fellowships and a Residence Grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, grants from the Cornell Council on Creative and Performing Arts, annual ASCAP Composition Awards, and the Bennington Bicentennial Committee (1975). Dorff's music is published by Kendor, Theodore Presser, Carl Fischer, Shawnee Press, Mel Bay, Golden, and others.
Email: ddorff@danieldorff.com Website: www.danieldorff.com