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Biography
No footnotes|date=January 2010BLP sources|date=January 2010 Daniel Asia (born 27 June 1953) is an American composer.
Daniel Asia was born in Seattle , Washington (U.S. state)|Washington , in the United States of America . He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale University School of Music. His major teachers include Jacob Druckman , Stephen Albert , Gunther Schuller , and Isang Yun in composition, and Arthur Weisberg in conducting.
He formerly served on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 1981 to 1986. In 198688, a UK Fulbright Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship enabled him to work in London as a visiting lecturer at City University. Since 1988, he has been Professor of Composition and head of the composition department at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona|Tucson . His notable students include David A. Yeagley .
In addition to composition, he conducts the New Yorkbased contemporary chamber ensemble The Musical Elements, which he co-founded in 1977.
He has composed four symphonies, a piano concerto, and numerous chamber and solo works.
Asia's works are published by the Theodore Presser Company .
A good number of the works are recorded and released on Summit Records .
Works
1973 Sound Shapes , for SSAATTBB chorus and pitch pipes
197475 On the Surface , for soprano, piano, harp, cello, and percussion
1975 Dream Sequence I , for amplified trombone
1976 String Quartet No. 1
1976 Miles Mix , for tape
1979 Orange , for viola
198081 Rivalries , for chamber orchestra
1984 Three Movements , for trumpet and orchestra
1985 String Quartet No. 2
1987 Symphony No. 1
1988 B for J , for flute, bass clarinet, trombone, vibraphone, electric organ, violin, viola, and cello
1989 Quartet for piano, violin, viola, and cello
198890 Symphony No. 2 "Celebration" ( Khagiga: In Memoriam Leonard Bernstein )
1990 Black Light , for orchestra
1991 At the Far Edge , for orchestra
1992 Symphony No. 3
1993 Gateways , for orchestra
1993 Symphony No. 4
1994 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
1995 Embers , for flute and guitar
1997 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
2001 Sonata for Violin and Piano
2002 - "Momentary Lapses", for Ben Verdery (guitar and violin)
2004 - New Set , for guitar and violin
References
Chute, James. 2001. "Asia, Daniel". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
External links
http://www.danielasia.net/ Daniel Asia official site
http://www.cfa.arizona.edu/index.php/bio/? netid=asia Page at the University of Arizona
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