Daniel Kellogg is an American

United States

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 composer

Composer

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Kellogg is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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, teaching music composition, counterpoint

Counterpoint

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 and orchestration

Orchestration

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Life

Kellogg received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis Institute of Music

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 in Philadelphia, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Yale University

Yale University

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 School of Music. He also studied at Indiana University

Indiana University

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, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. His teachers have included Martin Bresnick

Martin Bresnick

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, Jacob Druckman

Jacob Druckman

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, Don Freund

Don Freund

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, Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon

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, Ezra Laderman

Ezra Laderman

Ezra Laderman is an American composer of classical music.-Biography:His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Though poor, the family had a piano. Ezra writes, "At four, I was improvising at the piano; at seven, I began to compose music, writing it down...

, Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem

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, and Joseph Schwantner

Joseph Schwantner

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Career

Kellogg's music has been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Colorado Symphony Orchestra

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, the Philadelphia Orchestra

Philadelphia Orchestra

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, the San Diego Symphony

San Diego Symphony

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, the Green Bay Symphony, the South Dakota Symphony, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Yale Philharmonic, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the President's Own United States Marine Band, the Ying Quartet

Ying Quartet

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, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, eighth blackbird

Eighth blackbird

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, the Jupiter String Quartet, and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, among others in such venues as Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall

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, the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

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, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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 and the National Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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, and the Caramoor Music Festival. His music has been broadcast on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today,” New York’s WQXR, and China National Radio.

Among his numerous notable commissions include Divinum Mysterium for eighth blackbird

Eighth blackbird

eighth blackbird is a Grammy Award-winning contemporary music sextet based in Chicago. The group derives its name from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird...

, which was received with critical acclaim in 2000 and released on eighth blackbird's CD, Beginnings.
In 2000, he won the William Schuman Prize.
In 2002, he won the Young Concert Artists

Young Concert Artists

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 composition competition.
In 2005, Kellogg won a commission from the Philadelphia Orchestra to write a work celebrating the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

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, which he titled Ben. Kellogg received a performance from the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Colorado Symphony Orchestra

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 of Refracted Skies, commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Denver Art Museum

Denver Art Museum

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's new addition. He has also received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Barlow Endowment

Barlow Endowment

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 ASCAP, and BMI

Broadcast Music Incorporated

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External links

• Composer's Official Site
• "A CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL KELLOGG", Chandler Branch’s Blog, May 8, 2008
• College of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Program Notes of Daniel Kellogg and his piece Mozart's Hymn by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra