DANIEL KELLOGG
Daniel Kellogg b. 1976, Wilton, Connecticut
Daniel 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. In 2004, Kellogg was one of three early-career composers selected to participate in Cabrillo Festival’s prestigious Conductor/Composer Workshop. In November 2005, the Philadelphia Orchestra premiered Kellogg’s work, Ben commemorating the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Kellogg’s Praegustatum, which was commissioned and premiered last year by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, received its U.S. premiere at the Aspen Music Festival in August 2006, and St. Andrew’s Church by the Sea (MA) will premiere a new work that it commissioned in celebration of its 100th anniversary. The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Kahane, will open its 2006-2007 season with a new work commissioned from Kellogg in celebration of the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum. 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. The South Dakota Symphony has chosen him as its composer-in-residence for three seasons, beginning in the fall of 2006, and he will also hold a Music Alive residency with the Green Bay (WI) Symphony in 2007-08. On August 5 the Festival will present the West Coast Premiere of Kellogg’s Pyramus and Thisbe at the 2007 Free Family Concert.