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“The sheer polish and profundity of DANIEL KELLOGG’s writing commands attention,” wrote the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His busy career has been highlighted by numerous awards and a growing list of commissions.
Mr. Kellogg’s Praegustatum, which was premiered last year by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, will receive its U.S. premiere at the Aspen Music Festival in August 2006. The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Kahane, will open its 2006-2007 season with a new work commissioned from Mr. Kellogg in celebration of the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum. Mr. Kellogg is also writing an oratorio based on the Book of Daniel, commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria, Inc., which will be premiered by the San Diego Symphony, conducted by Jahja Ling, during the 2007-2008 season..
The South Dakota Symphony has chosen Mr. Kellogg as its composer-in-residence for three seasons, beginning in the fall of 2006. Mr. Kellogg will also hold a Music Alive residency with the Green Bay (WI) Symphony in 2007-2008.
In November 2005, The Philadelphia Orchestra premiered Mr. Kellogg’s work, Ben, commemorating the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. His music has been premiered by the Ying Quartet, the President’s Own United States Marine Band, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Yale Philharmonic, cellist Fred Sherry, flutist Catherine Ramirez, and eighth blackbird. His works have been performed at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Caramoor Music Festival, and broadcast on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today,” New York’s WQXR, and China National Radio. His Divinum Mysterium has been released, to critical acclaim, on eighth blackbird’s Cedille Records CD, “Beginnings.”
Mr. Kellogg has been honored with two Charles Ives Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 2003 and 1997. More recently, he was awarded his sixth ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. He also received the 2003 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Award for his orchestral work Jasper and Carnelian, which was premiered by the Santa Barbara Symphony conducted by Gisele Ben-Dor. He won the 2002 Harvey Gaul Composition Competition to write a work for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and the 2000 William Schuman Prize from BMI. Mr. Kellogg was chosen as Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence in 2002.
Born in Wilton, CT in 1976, Mr. Kellogg received his Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute and Master’s degree from the Yale School of Music, where he is now a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts. He has studied at Indiana University, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. His teachers have included Don Freund, Ned Rorem, Jennifer Higdon, Joseph Schwantner, Ezra Laderman, and Martin Bresnick. Mr. Kellogg served as composer-in-residence at the University of Connecticut in 2000-2001, and has since returned as a visiting lecturer. He currently holds the post of Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Colorado at Boulder and resides in Colorado with his wife, pianist Hsing-ay Hsu Kellogg, and daughter, Kaela Li Kellogg.
Composer DANIEL KELLOGG has upcoming premieres with the Colorado Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and Apsen Music Festival Chamber Orchestra. Recent premieres include the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. Honors include a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, six ASCAP Young Composer Awards and the Rudolf Nissim Award, and the BMI William Schuman Prize. His works have been performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, the Kimmel Center, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and broadcasts on NPR’s “Performance Today” and “St. Paul Sundays”. Mr. Kellogg was recently appointed composer-in-residence for the South Dakota Symphony for the next three seasons, and was awarded a Music Alive grant to serve as Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony for the 2007-2008 season. He is an Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has served as composer-in-residence for Young Concert Artists and the University of Connecticut. His CD “Beginnings” with eighth blackbird was among The Washington Post's top five 2004 classical discs. He holds a BM from the Curtis Institute and an MM/MMA from Yale. His teachers include Freund, Rorem, Higdon, Schwantner, Laderman, and Bresnick.
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