Bio
Dan Forrest was born in Elmira, NY, in 1978. His works have won numerous contests and awards, including the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Award, the ACDA Raymond Brock Competition, the Donald Sutherland Endowment Composition Contest, the ALCM Raabe Prize, the John Ness Beck Foundation, annual ASCAP Standard awards since 2003, and several others. He was also named a finalist in the 2009 Frank Ticheli International Band Composition Contest.
Dan has published music in various genres and styles with numerous publishers. He has his own choral series with Hinshaw Music, “The Music Of Dan Forrest”. His choral works (church and concert) have received several favorable reviews in the ACDA Choral Journal. His “A Basque Lullaby” for wind band will be included in the forthcoming Volume 8 of the well-known Teaching Music Through Performance In Band series.
Dan’s recent commissions include pieces for the 2011 ACDA National Convention Children’s Honors Choir, the Greenville (SC) Chorale and Symphony, the Columbus (IN) Philharmonic, the Williamsburg (VA) Choral Guild, the University of Utah (for the 2011 World Choral Symposium in Argentina), the North Carolina MEA (for their 2012 convention) and the Cy Woods High School Choir (for the 2011 Texas MEA convention).
Recent all-Forrest concerts include a residency at Houston Baptist University by Dr. John Yarrington, and an upcoming all-Forrest concert by the Friends University Alumni choir by Dr. Cecil Riney. Dan’s music is regularly programmed by renowned choral conductors around the world, has been heard on NPR’s “Performance Today”, and has been performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Kennedy Center.
Dan is the department head of music theory and composition at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC, is listed in Who’s Who In America, and is a Fellow of Melodious Accord.
More information about Dan and his music can be found at www.danforrest.com.
