Richard Danielpour

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Richard Danielpour (born January 28, 1956 in New York ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Life

Richard Danielpour was born in New York into a Persian-Jewish family. When he was 10 years old, the family moved to Palm Beach. There he attended Twin Lakes High School (now Dreyfoos School of the Art ). Danielpour studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music , composition with Vincent Persichetti and Peter Mennin at the Juilliard School ( MA 1982, DMA 1986), and piano with Lorin Hollander , Veronica Jochum and Gabriel Chodos. Since 1993 he has taught composition at the Manhattan School of Music , UCLA in Los Angeles, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and he has given masterclasses.

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Danielpour's compositional work includes 3 symphonies, 4 piano concertos, 2 cello concertos, chorales, song and song cycles, ballet music, chamber music - including six string quartets -, compositions for solo instruments and an opera. He has written commissioned works for many orchestras, including a. for the San Francisco Symphony , the New York Philharmonic , the Vienna Chamber Orchestra , the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Nationaltheater Mannheim . Among the musicians who have commissioned him to compose are Emanuel Ax , Gary Graffman , Thomas Hampson , Yo-Yo Ma , Jessye Norman , Frederica von Stade , Dawn Upshaw as well as the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Guarneri Quartet , the Emerson Quartet and the American String Quartet.

In 2001, An American Requiem was created based on texts from the Latin Mass liturgy and by Walt Whitman , Ralph Waldo Emerson and Michael S. Harper . The piece premiered at the Orange County Performing Arts Center under the direction of John Alexander with the participation of over 260 musicians (orchestra, choir and three soloists) . In the same year his Cello Concerto No. 2, Through the Ancient Valley premiered at Avery Fisher Hall in New York under the direction of Kurt Masur . The concert was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for cellist Yo-Yo Ma .

In 2005, his opera Margaret Garner , for which Toni Morrison wrote the libretto, premiered at three US opera houses. The opera was commissioned by the Michigan Opera Theater, Detroit, the Cincinnati Opera, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia .

Vox Humana was commissioned by the Mannheim National Theater and was premiered in May 2013 as part of the Mannheim Academy Concerts, conducted by Dan Ettinger . The orchestral work, which was created in May / June 2012, is based on the chorale “It's me, I should atone” from the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach.

In 2016, The Wounded Healer (Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra) premiered at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center with percussionist Lisa Pegher and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jacques Lacombe .

Works (selection)

Opera
  • 2005 Margaret Garner
Libretto by Toni Morrison , premiered in 2005 in Detroit, Cincinnati and Philadelphia
ballet
  • 1995: Anima Mundi
for the Pacific Northwest Ballet, (Seattle)
  • 1995: Urban Dances
for the New York City Ballet , choreography of the world premiere: Miriam Mataviani
Symphonies
  • 1984: Symphony No. 1, Dona Nobis Pacem
  • 1986: Symphony No. 2, Visions , for soprano, tenor and orchestra (text by Dylan Thomas : Vision and Prayer )
  • 1989: Symphony No. 3, Journey Without Distance
Solo concerts
  • 1990: Cello Concerto No. 1
  • 1990: Piano Concerto No. 1 - metamorphosis
  • 1993: Piano Concerto No. 2
  • 1999: Violin Concerto - A Fool's Paradise
  • 2001: Cello Concerto No. 2 - Through the Ancient Valley , for cello solo, kamancheh and orchestra
  • 2002: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Zodiac Variations , for left-hand piano and orchestra
  • 2010: Piano Concerto No. 4 - A Hero's Journey , for piano and orchestra
  • 2016: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
  • 2017: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra - The Voyager

Discography (selection)

  • A Child's Reliquary (for piano trio) (2000), Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio; Koch International Classics:
  • A woman's Life (2007). Nashville Symphony, conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero; Naxos
  • Anima Mundi . Ballet (1995) Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman ; Grammy nomination
  • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1994), with Yo-Yo Ma, cello. Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor: David Zinman; Grammy Award
  • Concerto for Orchestra “Zoroastrian Riddles” (1996) Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman; Sony
  • Elegies (1997), with Frederica von Stade, Thomas Hampson, Huang Ying, London Symphony Orchestra , Perspectives Ensemble, conducted by Roger Leberberg; Sony Classical
  • First Light (1988), Seattle Symphony and Chorale, conducted by Gerard Schwarz ; Delos
  • Ancient Voices , based on texts by Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 - 1273), Al Mutanabbi, Ibn Arabi (1165 - 1240) and texts from the Old Testament ; Naxos.
  • An American Requiem (2002) - 3 vocal soloists, choir, 6 trombones, orchestra. Pacific Symphony Orchestra, conductor Carl St. Clair ; Reference Recordings RR 97
  • The Enchanted Garden [1992], Christopher O'Riley, Piano; Koch International Classics

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Palm Beach Arts Paper November 15, 2009, accessed November 7, 2011
  2. ↑ David Wright: Music, Next Stop Along the Old Silk Road: Persia in: The New York Times, March 11, 2001, accessed May 10, 2019
  3. ^ VII. Academy Concert
  4. ^ Christiane Faist: Richard Danielpour: Vox Humana for Orchestra . Program of the premiere, Mannheim 2013.
  5. ↑ NJSO , accessed November 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ Richard Danaielpur , Durtis Institute of Music, accessed on May 10 of 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Danielpour, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH new York