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21st century

Baroque

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Solo repertoire

Piccolo

Alto flute

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Dorff Daniel

Adler, Samuel

Albert, Adrienne

Amlin, Martin

Arnauts, Dimitri

Bacri, Nicolas

Baksa, Robert

Balter, Marcos

Beal, Jeff

Bilotta, John

Borisova-Ollas, Victoria

Bullard, Janice Maille

Bunch, Kenji

Carter, Elliott

Chamberlain, Nicole

Chyrzynski, Marcel

Clarke, Ian

Coleman, Valerie

Connesson, Guillaume

Costa Roldán, Eduardo

Cueto, Daniel

Dalbavie, Marc-André

Daugherty, Michael

Dehnhard, Tilmann

Desenne, Paul

Dorff, Daniel

Egger, Fabian Johannes

Eggert, Kenneth

Firšt, Nenad

Furrer, Beat

Garrop, Stacy

Ghidoni, Armando

Gibb, Charles

Hailstork, Adolphus

Harberg, Amanda

Hersh, Howard

Hoover, Katherine

Igudesman, Aleksey

Ittzés, Gergely

Kernis, Aaron Jay

Khoury, Houstaf

Kukal, Ondřej

León, Tania

Lias, Stephen

Liebermann, Lowell

Lindberg, Christian

Linthicum-Blackhorse, William

Louke, Phyllis Avidan

Magalif, Eugene

Mitchell, Jonathan

Monroe, Ervin

Mower, Mike

Mucha, Geraldine

Mulleman, Tim

Ornstein, Maarten

Pann, Carter

Panufnik, Roxanna

Pärt, Arvo

Pattillo, Greg

Penman, Katrina

Petrič, Ivo

Price, William

Pritsker, Gene

Pucihar, Blaž

Ran, Shulamit

Rea, Stephanie

Rotaru, Doina

Rozman, Anže

Schocker, Gary

Schwantner, Joseph

Sciarrino, Salvatore

Seif, Sami

Serebrier, José

Skipworth, Lachlan

Sollberger, Harvey

Somma, Victor

Uébayashi, Yuko

Vasks, Pēteris

Widmann, Jörg

Witt, Carl

Woolf, Randall

Yi, Chen

"Nocturne Caprice" for solo flute

By Dorff Daniel

D. Dorff: "Nocturne Caprice" for solo flute was written in 2002 by commission of Mimi Stillman who premiered it in November, in Philadelphia.

"From the first time I heard the Mimi Stillman perform while still in her teens, I knew this was a musician I had to compose for, and hearing Mimi's transcription of my It Takes Four to Tango in July 2002 made me quite eager for the opportunity. In October 2002 Mimi asked if I had any unaccompanied flute music to perform on an all-unaccompanied recital on November 2, and despite the short lead time, I jumped at the chance to compose a new piece within the next few weeks.

Nocturne Caprice is a poetic rondo; the dark and gentle main theme is a departure point for more brilliant episodes, with lyrical writing in the low register as well as sunny passagework."

Daniel Dorff

Mimi Stillman

Live performance, January, 2019, Penn State University

Nocturne Caprice

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Dorff Daniel

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.