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Daniel Wohl is a Paris born composer based in Brooklyn who writes for a variety of instruments that range from computers and slide whistles to orchestras, chamber ensembles and string quartets. He works with groups such as Eighth Blackbird the California E.A.R Unit, the Calder Quartet, NY York Youth Symphony, Dither, Mantra, Da Capo Chamber Players, St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, as well as the American Symphony Orchestra, and his music has been played at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Redcat, Galapagos Art Space, Chelsea Art Museum, Mass MoCA and the Dia Beacon amongst others.
Daniel is committed to the music of today’s young composers, and as co-founder of the TRANSIT ensemble he has commissioned and presented pieces by emerging composers from around the world. Also active as an educator, Daniel teaches courses in composition, orchestration, and theory at Sarah Lawrence College.
Daniel’s work “+ou-” for chamber ensemble and electronics, and “Helium” for orchestra were 2008 and 2009 ASCAP Foundation/Morton Gould Young Composer Award winners. In 2009 he received commissions from Meet the Composer/ Commissioning music USA fund to create a 40 minute work for Transit with 12 channel electronics, as part of a residency at the Brooklyn based Diapason Gallery. Also in 2009 he received a Jerome Foundation grant to create a multi media chamber / electronics piece in conjunction with several New York based video artists.
Recent events include the premiere at Carnegie Hall of Ten Thousand Things part of the 2008 New York Youth Symphony Chamber Series commission, a new work for the Calder Quartet part of the 2009 Carlsbad Music Festival commission, and performances of “Foret Mecanique” for piano and electronics by pianist Vicki Ray at Disney Hall’s REDCAT and at Mass MoCA . Other awards, recognition and/or grants have come from Meet the Composer, Society for New Music, Music Now, ASCAP Plus, NY Look & Listen, Music IX, the Definiens Project, and the Brooklyn Arts Council among others. Daniel is also actively involved in writing for independent film, and his scores have been heard in theaters across France, on PBS, and at the Rooftop Film Festival.
Daniel holds degrees from the University of Michigan School of Music (M.M), studying with Bright Sheng and William Bolcom, and from Bard College (B.A) where he studied with Joan Tower. In 2007 he received a fellowship to attend the Bang on a Can Summer Institute where he worked with Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon.
