Joseph Dangerfield

From Wind Repertory Project
Joseph Dangerfield

Biography

Joseph Dangerfield (b. 1977) is an American composer, theorist, conductor and pianist.

Dr. Dangerfield studied composition at Bowling Green State University with Marilyn Shrude, and Mikel Kuehn, and the University of Iowa (Ph.D., 2005) with David Gompper.

Originally trained as a pianist, Dangerfield is also active as a performer and conductor throughout the United States. He has conducted various concerts (chamber and orchestral) of music, both new and from the canon in New York, Vienna, Prague, and others, and has served on the faculty of West Virginia University, the University of Florida, and McNeese State University, and Coe College.

Dangerfield is the recipient of many awards and recognitions, including the Aaron Copland Award (2010), the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra’s Composition Prize (2010), the Henry and Parker Pelzer Prize for Excellence in Composition (2005), the Young, and Emerging Composers Award (2002). He was a Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Federation and the Netherlands (2009-10), where he served as composer-in-residence with the Ensemble Studio New Music at the famed Moscow Conservatory, and lectured at Maastricht Conservatorium.


Works for Winds

Adaptable Music

  • Valhol (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Bove) (2020/2021)


All Wind Works

  • Valhol (2020)
  • Valhol (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Bove) (2020/2021)


Resources