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Dorff Daniel
Adler, Samuel
Andersen, Joachim
Auric, Georges
Baksa, Andreas
Beaser, Robert
Benshoof, Ken
Boisson, Felix
Bonnisseau, Frédéric
Chamberlain, Nicole
Damase, Jean-Michel
Daugherty, Michael
Dehnhard, Tilmann
Donatoni, Franco
Dorff, Daniel
Harberg, Amanda
Huylebroeck, Jan
Jacob, Gordon
Janáček, Leoš
Koechlin, Charles
Krek, Uroš
Lavista, Mario
Liebermann, Lowell
Loeb, David
Mălăncioiu, Gabriel
Martinů, Bohuslav
Meltzer, Harold
Morlacchi, Pietro
Mower, Mike
Musgrave, Thea
Papandopulo, Boris
Persichetti, Vincent
Poulenc, Francis
Reichert, Matthieu Andre
Rotaru, Doina
Schocker, Gary
Silva, Pattápio
Smith, Matt
Vivaldi, Antonio
Wilder, Alec
Yun, Isang
Tweet for solo piccolo
D. Dorff: Tweet for solo piccolo was written in 2010 for the International Piccolo Symposium.
"Looking for a musical idea that was uniquely piccoloistic (rather than flute music in a higher octave), the robins waking me up early every morning in May provided great inspiration, and one morning the opening theme and its contrasting theme poured out quickly. The form and development became a lot of fun to compose, with lots of elements of rondo, variations, and particularly using lots of timbre contrasts as a way to make a full sonorous experience out of an unaccompanied piccolo work."
Performance suggestions:
Since the music was published prior to the premiere, here are a few afterthoughts:
- The opening "strict tempo" doesn't mean it has to be at quarter = 124, it just means to play tempo giusto, rather than with rubato. It's fine to go a bit slower (or faster) than 124.
- Bar 54 is just a poco cresc., perhaps to mf; better to save ff till the subito ff at 63.
- Make the most of all the subito dynamics and timbre changes, that will make the form very 3-dimensional!"
Daniel Dorff
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.