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 (September 2003, April 2005), the Manhattan
School of Music (March 2004) and as part of New York City
Opera’s Vox and Friends festival at Symphony Space
(May 2004). Dr. Sonenberg is a founding member of the New
York-based composers collective South Oxford Six, who have
presented concerts of new music at Symphony Space and the
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and will present a new
evening of original music in October 2006. 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.
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