Daniel Lentz
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Daniel Lentz (born 1942, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA) is a composer.
Daniel Lentz achieved much notoriety as a musician while quite young - when he was still a student at Brandeis University he was awarded a fellowship in composition at Tanglewood in the summer of 1966. This was followed by a Fulbright Fellowship in Electronic Music in 1967-68, to be completed in Stockholm, Sweden. After that he began working as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968. In 1970 he focused more on composing and performing. At this time he also formed a music ensemble, the California Time Machine which toured North America and Europe.
In 1972, he won the First Prize in the International Composers Competition ("Stichting Gaudeamus") in Holland. Lentz was the first American to ever win that competition. Since then, he has won a number of other awards and grants, and to this day has a regular commission based composition practice.
Lentz then formed and led another music ensemble, the San Andreas Fault, which made several tours of the North America and Europe and released several recordings in Europe.
Returning to California, Lentz formed the Daniel Lentz Group in Los Angeles. This ensemble has toured much of the world and has released a number of recordings.
He has a daughter from his first marriage, and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his second wife, Lisa.
Discography
This information was obtained from his website and from New Albion Records.
- Voices, Aoede Records
- Wild Turkeys, Aoede Records
- wolfMASS, Aoede Records
- Point Conception, Aoede Records
- Huit ou Neuf Pieces Dorées à Point, Aoede Records
- Collection, Aoede Records
- Self Portrait, Aoede Records
- Butterfly Blood, Aoede Records
- Missa Umbrarum, New Albion Records
- Portraits, (with Adams, Dresher, Marshall, and Scott), New Albion Records
- Apologetica, New Albion Records
- b.e.comings, Fontec/Rhizome Sketch Records
- Walk Into My Voice, (with Harold Budd and Jessica Karraker), Materiali Sonori
- 3 Pianos, (with Harold Budd and Ruben Garcia), Virgin Records
- The Crack in the Bell, Angel-EMI Records
- On The Leopard Altar, Icon Records
- After Images, Cold Blue Records
- Spell, ABC Command Records
- Cold Blue Anthology, Cold Blue Records
External links
- Daniel Lentz Website (http://www.daniellentz.com/)
- New Albion Records - a label that carries some of his music (http://www.newalbion.com/)