During 2008-2009 alone, Daniel Kellogg’s commissions range from chamber to orchestral works with performances in New York, Washington, DC, Colorado, and the Far East.  His Four Valentines was premiered by the Borromeo String Quartet at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall in December 2008.  In March 2009, the Takács Quartet and the University of Colorado Wind Symphony premiered A Tent for the Sun, commissioned by Maestro Allan McMurray and the University of Colorado College of Music as part of a five-school consortium.  The season began with a piano quintet premiered at the Aspen Music Festival in August 2008 and concludes in Beijing and Seoul in June 2009, with Western Skies, a commission from the National Symphony which receives its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in April 2009.

Mr. Kellogg’s first commission from the National Symphony was Pyramus and Thisbe, which received its premiere in March 2007 to rave reviews.  Conducted by Leonard Slatkin as part of the citywide “Shakespeare in Washington” Festival, the work was written in collaboration with Tony Award-winning librettist Mark O’Donnell, and narrated by renowned actor John Lithgow.  Mr. Kellogg wrote his first oratorio, The Fiery Furnace, on a commission from Soli Deo Gloria, Inc.  The work was premiered in 2008 by the San Diego Symphony, conducted by Jahja Ling.  Mozart’s Hymn, which was commissioned and premiered in Paris by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, received its U.S. premiere at the Aspen Music Festival in 2006.  Refracted Skies was premiered and commissioned by the Colorado Symphony, conducted by Jeffrey Kahane, in celebration of the opening of the new Frederick C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum in 2006. 

Mr. Kellogg is in his third year as composer-in-residence with the South Dakota Symphony.  Last season, he held a Music Alive residency with the Green Bay (WI) Symphony, which gave the premiere of La Luz for orchestra and chorus.

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. 

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, Connecticut in 1976, Mr. Kellogg received his Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute and Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Yale School of Music.  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 their daughter, Kaela Li.

His Divinum Mysterium has been released, to critical acclaim, on eighth blackbird’s Cedille Records CD, “Beginnings.”

Ben for orchestra (20 minutes)
· 2006 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award ·

(piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (third doubling Eb clarinet), 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion [anvil, cowbell, glockenspiel, high hat, large bass drum, large crash cymbal, marimba, medium bass drum, medium crash cymbal, snare drum, suspended cymbal, suspended small crash cymbal, tambourine, timbales, tom-toms, triangles, vibraphone, woodblock], harp, glass armonica, piano [doubling celesta], and strings)

Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra
 

(piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussion, harp, piano, and strings)
Commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria
Premiered by the San Diego Symphony, Jahja Ling, conductor, 2008
 

January Scenes for chamber orchestra (16 minutes)

(2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 Bb clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 F horns, 2 C trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, percussion, strings)
 

Jasper and Carnelian for orchestra (13 minutes)
· 2003 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize, Premiered by the Santa Barbara Symphony ·

(2 C flutes, piccolo, 3 oboes, 3 Bb clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 F horns, 3 C trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, 4 percussion, harp, piano, strings, (In addition to primary instruments clarinet 3, horn 4, bass trombone, and 4th viola all play triangle)
 

(2 C flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contra bassoon, 4 F horns, 3 C trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, harps, piano/celesta, 3 percussion, strings, chorus)

Commissioned by the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Bridget-Michaele Reischl, Music Director
Made possible through a Music Alive Grant from Meet the Composer and the League of American Orchestras
 

Commissioned by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelson, conductor
 

(2 C flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contra bassoon, 4 F horns, 3 C trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, harps, piano/celesta, 3 percussion, strings, chorus)

Premiered by the South Dakota Symphony
 

Pyramus and Thisbe for narrator and orchestra (21 minutes)

(piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (third E-flat clarinet), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, 2 percussion [anvil, cowbell, flexatone, glockenspiel, high hat, kazoo, large crash cymbal, large bass drum, marimba, siren, small bass drum, snare drum, suspended crash cymbal, suspended cymbal, tam-tam, tambourine, temple blocks, tenor drum, timbales, triangle, tubular bells, vibraphone, wind chimes], harp, piano [doubling celesta], and strings)

Commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC
 

Refracted Skies for orchestra (12 minutes)

(piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, 3 percussion [bass drum, glockenspiel, marimba, suspended cymbal, tubular bells, vibraphone], harp, piano, and strings)

Commissioned by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra for the opening of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building
 

Rush for chamber orchestra (4 minutes)

(2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 Bb clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 F horns, 2 C trumpets, 2 trombones, 2 percussion, strings)
 

(string quartet as soloists, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 oboes, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 1 trumpet, 1 trombone, tuba/euphonium, 2 percussion, piano)

Commissioned by the Maestro Allan McMurray and University of Colorado College of Music for the University of Colorado Wind Symphony and the Takács String Quartet as part of a five school consortium.

Premiered on March 1, 2009.
 

Western Skies for orchestra (17 minutes)

(3 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, english horn, Eb clarinet, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoon, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, 3 percussion, harp, piano, strings)

Commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC, Iván Fischer, Principal Conductor, through a grant from the John and June Hechinger Commissioning Fund for New Orchestral Works.

Premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, April 2009.
 

and the dust shall sing like a bird for violin and piano (20 minutes)
· 2003 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award ·
Commissioned by Young Concert Artists for violinist Nicolas Kendall
Performed at venues including the Kennedy Center and the 92nd Street Y
 

Canvases for 13 wind players (13 minutes)
(2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, trumpet, trombone, 3 percussion)
Commissioned by the University of Connecticut Department of Music
 

Coming into the World for string quartet
Written for the Jupiter String Quartet
Premiered by that ensemble on the Young Concert Artists Series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in New York on March 19, 2007
 

Conversations – nine duets for B-flat clarinets (18 minutes)
 

Fanfare for Dover Beach for string quartet (4 minutes)
Performed at venues including the Philadelphia Museum of Art
 

Five Sketches for solo flute (12 minutes)
 

Commissioned by Ellen and Bob Bildersee

Premiered by the Borromeo String Quartet on the Young Concert Artists Composers Concerts at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, and the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, in December 2008
 

(flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion)
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble as winner of the Harvey Gaul Commissioning Prize
Performed at venues including the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC
 

Into Utter Forever for flute and piano (15 minutes)

Commissioned by Andreas Walburg-Wolfegg for flutist Catherine Ramirez
 

Momentum for solo piano (8 minutes)
· 1998 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award ·
Premiered at the 1998 Gilmore Keyboard Festival
Performed at venues including Alice Tully Hall, in Shanghai & Beijing, China, and broadcast on National Public Radio’s Performance Today
 

Ora Perpetuo for piano trio (13 minutes)
Commissioned by the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center
Premiered by the Claremont Trio, 2003
 

Points of Aggression for piano trio (8 minutes)
 

scarlet thread for solo piano (9 minutes)
· 2005 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award ·
Premiered by Hsing-ay Hsu in the Guggenheim’s Works and Process series, 2004
Featured in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
 

Sonata for viola and piano (12 minutes)
Commissioned by Young Concert Artists, 2003
 

Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
Premiered by Yoshiyuki Ishikawa at the 2008 International Double Reed Society Conference
 

Suite for eleven players (13 minutes)
· 2000 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award ·
· 2000 William Schuman BMI Student Composer Prize ·
(flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, violin I & II, viola, cello, doublebass)
 

Sunrise on the Divide fanfare for 8 horns (2 minutes)
Premiered at the 2008 International Horn Conference
 

Things Fall Apart for solo piano (12 minutes)
 

Three American Hymns for string quartet (12 minutes)
Commissioned by the Ying Quartet
 

Arise My Love for a cappella choir (3 minutes)
 

Gloria for SATB choir, SATB soloists, and strings (16 minutes)
Commissioned by the Fairfield County (CT) Chorale
 

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