DANIEL DORFF

Daniel Dorff ’s music has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch,
commissioned five times by the Philadelphia Orchestra’s education department, and commissioned twice
by the Minnesota Orchestra’s Kinder Konzert series which has programmed his music over 200 times.
Dorff ’s works have also been performed by clarinetists Larry Combs and John Bruce Yeh, the Baltimore
Symphony, Pittsburgh 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 flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal, Donald Peck, Mimi
Stillman, and Gary Schocker, by pianist Marc-André Hamelin, and at the Spoleto and Aspen summer
festivals.
Other commissions have come from the Colorado Symphony’s Up Close and Musical series, Sacramento
Symphony, Young Audiences, Ithaca College School of Music, Symphony in C, 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 for pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa
Loeb.
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. Dorff received degrees in composition from
Cornell University and University of Pennsylvania, serving as a Teaching Fellow at Penn. 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 the Haddonfield Symphony (now Symphony in C), in which he played bass clarinet from
1980 through 2002.

IT TAKES FOUR TO TANGO has been recorded by:
The Harmo Saxophone Quartet, on Meister Music MM-1015
The Miles Osland Saxophone Quartet, on Sea Breeze SEAB 3059
The Morse Code Saxophone Quartet, available directly from the quartet
Interclarinet Ensemble, Farao Classics B108011

Published for:
Clarinet Quartet (3 B(s and Bass, 114-40871)
Bassoon Quartet (3 Bns. and Cbn., 114-40872)
String Quartet (114-40942)
String Quintet (114-41060)
String Orchestra (116-40040)
Flute (or Violin) and Guitar (114-41327)
Flute Quartet (mixed flutes, 114-41507)

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