Daniel Dorff
Dorff’s works have also been performed by the Baltimore Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, 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 and clarinetist John Bruce Yeh. Other commissions have come from the Colorado Symphony’s Up Close and Musical series, Sacramento Symphony, Young Audiences, American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Ithaca College School of Music, Haddonfield Symphony, Network for New Music, National Flute Association Piccolo Committee, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, and other leading organizations.
Daniel Dorff was born in New York in 1956; acclaim came early with First Prize in the Aspen Music Festival’s annual composers’ competition at age 18. Originally a saxophonist, Dorff received degrees in composition from Cornell and Univ. of Pennsylvania, serving as a Teaching Fellow at Penn. His teachers included George Rochberg, George Crumb, Karel Husa, Richard Wernick, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Henry Brant. He studied saxophone with Sigurd Rascher and is an active bass clarinetist in the Philadelphia region. In 1996, Dorff was named Composer-In-Residence for the Haddonfield Symphony.
—biography courtesy of danieldorf.com