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Daniel Felsenfeld

 

News
04.20.2009
Daniel Felsenfeld to be part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival
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03.27.2009
Felsenfeld to Have Breakout 2009
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www.danielfelsenfeld.com

 

List of Compositions

Revolutions of Ruin (2008, in progress)
Oratorio for chorus and chamber orchestra, with baritone and soprano soloists
To Be Performed Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
• Congressional Chorus, Great Noise Ensemble; Armando Bayolo, cond.

Obsession #2: Kicking Edgar Allen Poe (2008, in progress)
For Solo piano
To be performed and recorded by Sarah Bob, Boston

Obsession #1: Tocscanini's Glasses (for Jonathan Lethem) (2008)
For solo piano
Recorded on Mix Tape, Endeavor Classics
• Andy Russo, piano

The Dresden Soul Symphony
For full orchestra, rock band, boy’s chorus, and four singers
(Written in collaboration with Larry Gold)
Dresden, Alter Schlachthof, April 2008
• MDR Orchestra, Jun Maerkel, cond.; Bilal, Dwele, Tweet and Joy Delane, singers

The Poet's Dream of Herself as a Young Girl (2007-8)
For mezzo-soprano and piano trio
Stanford University, January 2008
Part of the A. Jess Shenson Recital Series
• Amy Schneider, mezzo-soprano; Laura Dahl, piano; Livia Sohn, violin; Thalia Moore, cello

The Bloody Chamber (2007)
Scene from an opera-in-progress for singers and Pierrot ensemble
(reading, part of American Opera Projects First Glimpse series)
South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, October 2007
• Amy Van Roekel, soprano; Caroline Worra, soprano;

Magnificat (2007)
For soprano and piano
Old First Church, Brooklyn, January 2007
• Rebecca Davis, soprano; Aleeza Meir, piano

All Work and No Play (2007)
For piccolo and piano
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, June 2007
• Stephanie Mortimore, piccolo; Aleeza Meir, pian

True Love (2007)
For soprano and organ
United Nations Chapel, April 2007
• Caroline Worra, soprano; Aleeza Meir, piano

Dry Sandwiches (2007)
For soprano and piano
South Oxford Space, May 2007
• Amy Van Roekel, soprano; Kelly Horsted, piano

Annus Mirabilis (2007)
For Bass-baritone and piano
South Oxford Space, May 2007
• Matthew Curran, bass-baritone; Kelly Horsted, piano

Lines for Winter (2007)
For tenor and piano
South Oxford Space, May 2007
• Robert Mack, tenor; Kelly Horsted, piano

Living Room Suite (2006)
For String Trio
New Gallery, Boston, May 2006
• Gabriella Diaz, violin; Tanya Maggini, viola; David Russell, cello

First Scenes from Red Room (2006)
For violin and piano
Either/Or Festival, New York City
Performed May 2006, Tenri Institute
• Andrea Schultz, violin; Richard Carrick, piano

Insomnia Redux; 4am (2005)
For orchestra
Jordan Hall, Boston, February 2008
• New England Conservatory Orchestra; John Page, conductor

The Bridge (2005)
For soprano and chamber orchestra

The Last of Manhattan (2004)
Opera for singers and chamber orchestra
The Kitchen, New York, May 2004
• Anni Bruno, soprano; Cary Rosko, mezzo-soprano; William Manos, baritone; Rick Carrick, conductor

Summer and All it Brings (2003-4)
Solo cantata for soprano, narrator, chamber orchestra
VOX 2004: Showcasing American Composers, New York City Opera; New
York, May 2004
• Angela Fount, soprano; Matt Burns, narrator; Gary Wedow, conductor

Insomnia Redux; 4am (2003)
For solo piano
Millenium Festival, Gijon, Spain; August 2003
• Jenny Lin, Piano

From Maldoror (2003)
For chamber ensemble and narrator
Donnell Library, New York, September 2003
• Miriam Kapner, Oboe; Sarah Bob, piano; Sarah Nadeau, Narrator; Jenny Banks, flute

The Bridge (2002)
Song cycle for piano and soprano
Grace Church, New York, May 2003
• Marie Mascari, soprano; Renee Youn, piano

A Dirty Little Secret (2002)
For solo piano
Ethical Culture Society, December 2002
• Gabriella Frank, piano

Summer and All it Brings (2002)
Solo cantata for harpsichord, cello, soprano, and narrator
Non-Sequitur Festival, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, August 2002
• Abigail Chapman, soprano; Jenny Lin, harpsichord; Clarice Jensen, cello; Daniel Felsenfeld, narrator

Thursday Night Overture (2000)
Excerpted from the opera «Thursday Night,» For chamber orchestra
Wellesey Composer’s Conference, Wellesley College, Massachusets, August
2003
• Wellesely Composer's Conference Players, Efran Guigui, conductor

Air That Kills (2000)
For solo violin
Radio Cologne, May 2000
• Carolyn Widmann, violin (winner of the Yehudi Menhuin competition)

L’Envoi (2001)
For voice and piano
Music at the Anthology Festival, New York City, June 2003
SOUNDCHECK, WNYC-FM, New York, tk date
• Marie Mascari, Soprano; Gordon Beeferman, piano

Thursday Night: An Opera (2000)
For ten singers, chorus, and chamber orchestra

Let Me Out (1999)
For cello, timpani and bass clarinet
Jordan Hall, Boston, May 1999
• Margaret Steen-Guldborg, cello; Thomas Guldborg, percussion; Samantha Lively, clarinet

Elizabeth Among the Rains (2000)
Song cycle for voice and piano
Brown Hall, Boston
• Suzanne Ryan, mezzo-soprano; Rachel Jimenez, piano

Live ‘Til Twilight (1998)
For cello and piano
Lincoln Theater, Miami, March 2002
• Kathleen Balfe, cello; Roberto Poli, piano

I Conquered Egypt (1999)
For piano trio
Jordan Hall, Boston, May 1999
• Trio Aubade

New Forms of Control (1999)
For four jazz singers, two keyboards and percussion
Jordan Hall, Boston, 1999
• Onomatopoeia

I May Never Get Home (1999)
Song cycle for baritone and piano

Thank You Goodnight (1999)
Song cycle for soprano and piano
Brown Hall, Boston, Boston Composer's Festival, 2000
• Jennifer Ashe, soprano; Melissa Marse, piano

Down to You is Up (1999)
For solo piano
Williams Hall
• Renee Youn, piano

Cultivating Cool (1998)
For trumpet, clairnet, violin, cello and percussion
Brown Hall, Boston, May 1999
• Greg Gettel, Trumpet; Lesley Warren, Clarinet; Jackie Depaul, violin; Kathleen Balfe, cello; John Spiritas, percussion

 
Bio

 

Daniel Felsenfeld’s recent commissions include: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (his own musical resetting of David Bowie’s lyrics), for the Real Quiet trio and singers Petra Haden and Theo Bleckmann; Revolutions of Ruin, an oratorio for the Congressional Chorus to be performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in May, 2009; All Work and No Play, a piccolo piece for Stephanie Mortimore, performed at Carnegie Hall, 2007; The Cohen Variations for pianist Simone Dinnerstein.

In Spring 2009, the PEN Foundation will sponsor Collaborations/Elaborations, an evening based on Mr. Felsenfeld’s collaborations with writers, including Rick Moody, Mark Z. Danielewski, Wesley Stace, and Jonathan Lethem, among others. Opera After Hours, an evening of music theatre, was performed at the Zipper Factory in April 2008 (directed by Christopher Alden). The Dresden Soul Symphony, written for the MDR Orchestra in collaboration with arranger and cellist Larry Gold premiered in Dresden in 2008. His opera The Last of Manhattan was commissioned by (and premiered at) The Kitchen in 2003, and in 2004 another opera, Summer and All it Brings, was chosen to be part of New York City Opera’s VOX 2004: Showcasing American Composers. Mr. Felsenfeld is composer in residence for the Xanthos Ensemble, and for Real Quiet. Commercially available works include: Pianist Andrew Russo’s Dirty Little Secrets and Mix Tape (Endeavor Classics); Pianist Jenny Lin’s American Insomniac (Koch). He has received fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Wellesley Composers Conference.

Mr. Felsenfeld is the author of eight books (biographies of composers ranging from Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland to Bach and Vivaldi) and hundreds of articles. He received his bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and went on to do Graduate and Doctoral work at Boston’s New England Conservatory (NEC recently rewarded him their first 10 Year Distinguished Alumni Award). He teaches at City College of New York, and lives in Brooklyn.

 

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