Daniel
Sonenberg has written
extensively for chamber and orchestral ensembles, and has
recently gained notice for his art songs and theater
compositions. His Baseball Songs, described by James
Oestreich as “touching” in the New York Times, won the
Robert Starer prize of the City University of New York. His
music has been presented by the Da Capo Chamber Players,
Friends and Enemies of New Music, the Momenta String
Quartet, the New York Singing Teachers Association, the
American Composers Alliance, Hudson Valley Philharmonic,
The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra and others. Portions of his
opera, The Summer King, have been presented by American
Opera Projects, the Manhattan School of Music and as part
of New York City Opera’s Vox and Friends festival at
Symphony Space. A recent workshop of the opera was reviewed
in the Wall Street
Journal. Dr. Sonenberg
is a founding member of the New York-based composers
collective South Oxford Six, who have presented concerts
of new music at various locations in New York City and
in Sombor, Serbia. He has received grants and
fellowships from Meet The Composer, The Corporation of
Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for
the Creative Arts. He has also gained national and
international recognition for his scholarly work on
singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Dr. Sonenberg holds a
BA from Bard College, an MA from Queens College, and a
DMA from the City University of New York, and his
principal teachers have included Joan Tower, Daron Hagen
and David Del Tredici. Since September 2005, he has been
Assistant Professor and Resident Composer at the
University of Southern Maine School of Music.
