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Dorff Daniel
Adler, Samuel
Andersen, Joachim
Auric, Georges
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Beaser, Robert
Benshoof, Ken
Boisson, Felix
Bonnisseau, Frédéric
Chamberlain, Nicole
Damase, Jean-Michel
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Dehnhard, Tilmann
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Dorff, Daniel
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"Flash!" for piccolo and piano
D. Dorff: "Flash!" for piccolo and piano was written in 2009 for Kate Prestia-Schaub.
"In September 2008, Kate Prestia-Schaub wrote to tell me about the International Piccolo Symposium's new composer competition. She proposed that if I write a new piccolo/piano piece, she would record a demo for me to submit to the competition, and she would submit applications to perform it at the 2009 IPS convention and NFA convention. What amazing timing! I set out to compose a flashy showpiece with a jazzy snap, lots of idiomatic scales and arpeggios, and a scary middle section, and by mid-October FLASH! was complete.
Kate followed suit and all 3 wishes came true - FLASH! won first prize in the IPS composer competition, and she performed it both there and at NFA. In the meantime, many other piccoloists have added the work to their repertoire, Cynthia Ellis wrote an article about it for Flute Talk magazine, and Walfrid Kujala commissioned a band accompaniment to premiere at NFA in 2010.
More recently, Sarah Jackson has commissioned an orchestra version, premiered at the 2014 NFA convention."
Daniel Dorff
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Daniel Dorff (1956) is an American composer.
Born in New Rochelle, New York, he studied at Cornell University and earned his master's degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, studying composition with George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick.
Dorff was a clarinetist, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist for the Haddonfield Symphony for 20 years prior to Alan Gilbert appointing him composer-in-residence.
From 1996 until 2015, he was a composer-in-residence for Symphony in C (formerly The Haddonfield Symphony) in Camden, New Jersey.
His works have been commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, and performed by groups and individuals including the Baltimore Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, flutists of the Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, as well as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jasmine Choi, Denis Bouriakov, and frequent collaborator Cindy Anne Broz. He has also created arrangements for Sir James Galway and pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb.
Dorff has taken a particular interest in exposing young people to classical music; many of his works are written for young audiences, including Three Fun Fables, a setting for narrator and orchestra of familiar Aesop tales; Billy and the Carnival, a narrated guide to the instruments of the orchestra, and many more.
Among his compositions for flute: "9 Walks Down 7th Avenue" Rondò Variations for flute and piano; "April Whirlwind" for flute and piano'; "August Idyll" for solo Flute; "Concertino" for flute and orchestra; "Flash!" for piccolo and piano; "For Elise" for flute and piano; "Nocturne Caprice" for solo flute; "Nocturnes for the Nativity" for solo flute; "Snow Angel" for flute and piano; "Sonata "Spirit of the Hudson" for bass flute and piano; Sonata "Three Lakes" for flute and piano; Sonatine de Giverny for piccolo and piano; "Songs of the Open Road" for solo flute etc.