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aniel Dorff’s music has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, commissioned five times by the

Philadelphia Orchestra’s education department resulting in over 20 performances, and commissioned twice by

the Minnesota Orchestra’s Kinder Konzert series which has performed his music over 200 times.

Dorff’s works have also been performed by the Baltimore Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Louisville Orchestra,

Indianapolis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, 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, flutists Jean‐Pierre Rampal, Donald Peck, Mimi Stillman, and Gary Schocker; and conducted by maestros Alan

Gilbert and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Other commissions have come from the Colorado Symphony’s Up Close and Musical

series, Sacramento Symphony, Young Audiences, American Composers Forum, Ithaca College School of Music,

Symphony in C (formerly Haddonfield Symphony), Network for New Music, National Flute Association Piccolo

Committee, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, and other organizations. Dorff has also created arrangements for Sir James

Galway and pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb.

Highlights of the 2009‐10 season include an all‐Dorff childrenʹs concert at the Icicle Creek Music Center in Washington.

Highlights of the 2008‐09 season included the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Aspen Music Festival performing Goldilocks

and the Three Bears, and the Baltimore Symphony in 5 performances of The Tortoise and the Hare. In February 2009, the

Allentown Symphony gave performances of The Kiss, after the painting by Klimt. In addition, Dorff was the pre‐concert

lecturer for Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in March 2009. His new Flash! for piccolo and piano was performed by Kate

Prestia‐Schaub at the 2009 International Piccolo Symposium and annual convention of the National Flute Association;

Flash! has also been performed on tour by piccolo legend Walfrid Kujala and recently won the International Piccolo

Symposiumʹs biennial composition competition. In May 2009, Sheryl Lee performed Dorffʹs The Day Things Went Wrong at

the Pet Store (11 Cartoons for Piano) at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Daniel Dorff was born in New Rochelle, NY in 1956; acclaim came early with First Prize in the Aspen Music Festival’s

annual composers’ competition at age 18 for his Fantasy, Scherzo and Nocturne for saxophone quartet. Dorff received

degrees in composition from Cornell and University of Pennsylvania; his teachers included George Crumb, George

Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick. He studied saxophone with

Sigurd Rascher. In 1996, Dorff was named Composer‐In‐Residence for Symphony in C (formerly Haddonfield

Symphony), in which he played bass clarinet from 1980 through 2002.

Upcoming premieres include Yvonne Smith in Spark for solo viola to be performed in Houston in November 2009. Recent

premieres include Kate Prestia‐Schaub in Flash! for piccolo and piano (Murietta CA, January 2009), and Tiffany Holmes in

Trees for solo flute, premiered at an all‐Dorff concert at the Mid‐Atlantic Flute Fair in February 2009 featuring Cindy Anne

Strong as guest narrator. Tiffany Holmes and Cindy Anne Strong also performed Trees at the National Flute Associationʹs

annual convention in August 2009.

Dorffʹs popular Sonatine de Giverny has become well‐known through the Crystal CD featuring piccolo soloist Lois Herbine

and was performed 6 times in entirety at the 2008 annual convention of the National Flute Association. Symphony In C

(formerly Haddonfield Symphony) has recorded an all‐Dorff CD recently released on Bridge Records, featuring Ann

Crumb and Ukee Washington as narrators, conducted by Rossen Milanov. The companion coloring book for his narrated

work Billy and the Carnival is now given out annually to young audiences at the Colorado Symphonyʹs educational

concerts. Laurel Zucker recently released August Idyll for solo flute on Cantilena Records.

Daniel Dorff serves as Vice President of Publishing 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. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Music Publishersʹ Association of the USA, the Board of

Directors of the National Flute Association, and the Executive Board of The Charles Ives Society.

Dorff’s compositions have been published by Theodore Presser Company, Carl Fischer, Lauren Keiser Music (formerly

MMB), Elkan‐Vogel, Shawnee Press, Mel Bay, Kendor Music, Tenuto Publications, and Golden Music, and recorded on

the Bridge, Crystal, Silver Crest, Barking Dog, Capstone, Orange Note, Farao Classics, Northbranch, Sea Breeze, Isis, and

Meister labels.

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