Bio
Composer and educator 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 Awards, ASCAP Standard awards, Meet The Composer grants, 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. His choral works (church and concert) have received several favorable reviews in the ACDA Choral Journal. His “A Basque Lullaby” for wind band was performed at the 2010 Midwest Clinic, and is included in the recently-released 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 Salt Lake Vocal Artists (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 performances include High Point University Choirs at Carnegie Hall and the premiere of Dan’s Te Deum by the Texas Master Chorale and members of the Houston Symphony. Dan’s music is regularly programmed by renowned choral conductors in the US and abroad, has been heard on NPR’s “Performance Today”, and has been performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center.
Dan is the department head of music theory and composition at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC, has served as an adjudicator for the Southern Division MTNA Composition Contests and the John Ness Beck Foundation, 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.