Dan Forrest

Dan Forrest (2017)

Daniel Ernest Forrest Jr. (born January 7, 1978 in Elmira , New York ) is an American composer and pianist .

Education and career

Dan Forrest received piano lessons from the age of 8 . In high school he won several piano prizes, he accompanied choirs and performed Edward Grieg's piano concerto with the Elmira Symphony Orchestra. He studied piano at Bob Jones University in South Carolina . He graduated as a concert pianist with a Masters, but also studied music theory and composition with Joan Pinkston and Dwight Gustafson.

After initially working as a piano teacher, he went to Kansas, where he completed a degree in composition as a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Kansas . The specialist in symphonic wind orchestra music James Barnes and the composition teacher Alice Parker exerted a particular influence on him.

From 2004 to 2007 Forrest was a lecturer in music theory and composition at the University of Kansas, and from 2007 to 2012 he was section head for these subjects at Bob Jones University. Today he is also co-editor at Beckenhorst Press . He holds master classes in composition and gives lectures on various aspects of the music business at universities and choirs in the USA and beyond.

Forrest's oeuvre encompasses choral, instrumental, orchestral and wind orchestra works for both the secular and the spiritual. His compositions are published by Beckenhorst Press and have sold millions around the world.

He is artist-in-residence at Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Greenville , South Carolina .

Works (selection)

• February 11, 2007 World premiere of Arise, Shine! , Carnegie Hall , where his works have subsequently been performed regularly
• Christmas 2008 broadcast of Carol of Joy on National Public Radio
• March 24, 2013 World premiere of Requiem for the Living at the Hickory Choral Society on the occasion of the organization's 35th anniversary
• December 2013 World premiere of Himenami at Izumi Hall , Osaka , Japan
• Spring 2016 premiere of Jubilate Deo by the Indianapolis Children's Choirs
• Fall 2017 World premiere of LUX: The Dawn From On High by Greenville Chorale and Symphony
• July 2018 premiere of Non Nobis Domine in Dom to Salzburg , Austria

Awards (selection)

• 2004 First place in the John Ness Beck Foundation's composition competition for The King of Love My Shepherd Is (ahead of the well-known British composer John Rutter , who took second place)
• 2005 First place in the Raymond Brock Composition Competition of the American Choral Directors Association for the piece "Selah"
• 2006 First place at the Morton Gould Young Composers Award for selected sections from Words From Paradise
• 2006 Anthony B. Cius, Jr. Award from the University of Kansas
• 2009 first place in the composition competition of the John Ness Beck Foundation
• 2009 Raabe Prize of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians for In Paradisum

Private life

Forrest is married and has three children. He describes himself as a believing Christian and sees his musical work as an expression of his faith.

literature

• Lindsey Cope, The Power of Three in Dan Forrest's "Requiem for the Living" , University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2015)
• John Cornish, A Conductor's Study of the Compositional Style of Dan Forrest As Illustrated by Analyzes of in Paradisum… and Te Deum (2013)

Web links

• Dan Forrest's website
• Beckenhorst Press website
• Performance of Requiem for the Living , Rivertree Singers (2015)
• Performance of Jubilate Deo , Rivertree Singers (2016)
• The Inside Voice , Interview with Dan Forrest (2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.beckenhorstpress.com/composers portrait on the Beckenhorstpress website accessed on August 25, 2019
2. ↑ https://viennachoralsociety.org/concert/interview-with-dan-forrest/ Interview of the Vienna Choral Society with Dan Forrest, accessed on August 25, 2019
3. ↑ http://www.beckenhorstpress.com/staff/ Web presence of Beckenhorst Press accessed on August 25, 2019
4. ↑ http://www.danforrest.com/?page_id=9 Dan Forrest's website accessed on August 25, 2019
5. ^ Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church Staff. .
6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 5, 2007 
7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 3, 2009 
8. ↑ https://www.hickoryrecord.com/news/hickory-choral-society-to-perform-at-church/article_3d0cfbff-0862-5199-ad4f-368c474fea40.html accessed on August 20, 2018
9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lGFtxaQ8cs accessed on August 18, 2018
10. ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dan-forrest-jubilate-deo/1144723914
11. ^ Greenville Chorale prepares to premiere new work by composer Dan Forrest (en) . In: The Greenville News . 
12. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiJUKhVcVhw accessed on August 18, 2018
13. ↑ http://johnnessbeckfoundation.org/awards/ accessed on August 25, 2019
14. ↑ ^{a b} Vanguard website .
15. ↑ Brock awards . Archived from the original on October 15, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 25, 2019. 
16. ↑ MTHC Anthony B. Cius, Jr. Award (s) . In: School of Music , July 25, 2013. 
17. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 24, 2012 
18. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 22, 2012 
19. ↑ What I Believe ( en-US )