Paris born composer DANIEL WOHL draws on his background in electronic music to create works that intimately merge electronic and acoustic elements. Daniel’s distinctive hybrid format has earned him praise as one of his generation’s “imaginative and skillful creators” (New York Times) “shaping our contemporary music scene” (NPR) . His music has been commissioned and/or performed by cutting-edge ensembles like Eighth Blackbird, So Percussion, Present Music, TwoSense (Lisa Moore and Ashley Bathgate), TRANSIT, Da Capo, California E.A.R Unit, Dither, Mantra, and Calder Quartet, as well as the more classically-oriented American Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Yale Philharmonia, New York Youth Symphony chamber players and St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble. His work has received recent performances at Carnegie Hall, Webster Hall, MATA Festival, Ecstatic Music Festival, NordKlang, Mass MoCA, River to River, Gaudeamus (Amsterdam), and over media outlets such as NPR, PBS, WQXR, CANAL +, TFI and FRANCE 2.
Recent events and projects include performances of Aorta for piano and electronics, a piece hailed as “mesmerizing” (NJ Star-Ledger) at the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition and at the Ecstatic Music Festival, as well as commissions from Albany Symphony, pianist Kathleen Supove, the H2 Quartet, and San Francisco based ensemble After Everything. In 2012 a recording of Glitch, commissioned by the Carlsbad Music Festival for the Calder Quartet will appear on Airplane Ears Records.
Daniel’s work has benefited from several grants including Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA, the American Composers Forum / Jerome Foundation, CAP, MET Life Creative Connections, and the Brooklyn Arts Council as well as awards from the Finale National Composers Competition, the Society for New Music, Music Now, ASCAP Plus, NY Look & Listen, Music IX, and the Definiens Project among many others. Daniel is also actively involved in writing for film. His scores have been heard at festivals internationally (Palm Springs Film Festival, Brooklyn International Film Festival, Chelsea Rooftop Film Festival, ISFF Melbourne).
In 2012 Daniel will make his New Amsterdam debut with Corps Exquis, a multi-media chamber and electronics project created in conjunction with the TRANSIT new music ensemble and a collective of New York-based video artists. The project takes his “knack for creating electroacoustic pieces that blur the line between electronic and acoustic instrumentation” (WNYC) to a large scale performance piece at the intersection of video installation, electronic and experimental music. The project debuted at Glasslands in Brooklyn on December 13th, and will be released on New Amsterdam Records in 2012.
As co-founder of the TRANSIT ensemble Daniel has helped commission and present pieces by talented emerging composers from around the world. Also active as an educator, he teaches courses in composition, orchestration, and theory at Sarah Lawrence College and Yale. He is currently earning his doctorate at the Yale School of Music, studying with David Lang, Martin Bresnick, Ingram Marshall and Aaron Kernis, and holds degrees from the University of Michigan School of Music and Bard College.
