Dana Wilson

From Wind Repertory Project

Biography

Dana Wilson holds a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, and is currently associate professor of composition at the Ithaca College School of Music in Ithaca, New York. He has been a Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University, a Yaddo Fellow (at Yaddo, the artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, NY), and is currently a Charles A. Dana Research Fellow in composition.

Dr. Wilson has many commissions, grants, and prizes to his credit. His previous work for wind ensemble, Piece of Mind, published by Ludwig Music Publishing Co., Inc., won the Sousa Foundation's 1988 Sudler International Wind Band Composition Competition and the 1988 American Bandmasters Association/Ostwald Prize. He is co-author of Contemporary Choral Arranging, published by Prentic-Hall, and has written articles on diverse musical subjects.

Works for Winds

• Black Nightshade (2004) -- for four percussionists and wind symphony
• Colorado Peaks (2005)
• Dance of the New World (1992)
• Day Dreams (2006)
• Evolution (1999)
• Kah! Out of Darkness (1999)
• Odysseus and the Sirens (2008)
• Piece of Mind (1987)
• Shakata: Singing the World into Existence (1989)
• Shortcut Home (1998)
• ...the harder they fall (2004)
• To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
• Uprising (1995)
• Vortex (1999)
• When I am Gone Away (2006)

References

• Camphouse, Mark (ed.) (2004). Composers on composing for band, volume two. Chicago, IL: Gia Publications.
• Dana Wilson - Official Website
• Ferrari, Lois. (2007). Two Symphonic Wind Ensemble Compositions of Dana Wilson: Piece of Mind, Shakata: Singing the World Into Existence Doctoral Paper.
• Reynish, Timothy. The Wind Music of Dana Wilson
• Ludwig Music Publishing - Official Website