A melodic romp, shifting between the strong light and long shadows of August. Suitable for advanced student recital, August Idyll is a 4-minute skill-builder with broad range and dynamic deftness.

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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 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, clarinetists of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic, and by pianist Marc-André Hamelin and clarinetist John Bruce Yeh.

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.

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