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 250 times.
Dorff’s works have also been performed by 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, and Denis Bouriakov, clarinetists Larry Combs and John Bruce Yeh as well as those of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic, 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, and clarinet with Ronald Reuben and Gary Gray. 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.
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