BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Kallman, composer
Biography
Daniel Kallman's compositions for orchestra, winds, and choir are widely published and have been performed across the United States, Europe and East Asia. His steady stream of commissions includes music for worship, theater, dance, and the young musician. Kallman has composed for the National Symphony Orchestra, the Air Force Academy Band, the Minnesota Orchestra, A Prairie Home Companion, and a wide variety of vocal and instrumental ensembles. He has received support from the American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, and the McKnight and Jerome Foundations.
The Vanishing Snows of Kilimanjaro, Kallman's symphonic poem for winds, was commissioned by the Air Force Academy Band for their California tour in March of 2007. Other recent works for band include Streets of Honor (commissioned by the 34th Infantry Division Band of the Minnesota National Guard and a 19-member consortium of college, high school and community bands), and Alyeska:The Great Land, written for the Minnesota Symphonic Winds 2006 tour of Alaska. Kallman's most popular work for winds, The Jig Is Up, has received hundreds of performances by college, high school, professional and community bands.
Kallman's orchestral works have been performed by ensembles across the country, including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony. His holiday works have been programmed by the Milwaukee Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra under the baton of Doc Severinson.
Kallman has established a reputation as a composer for the young musician and youth audiences, often conducting premieres of his new works. He recently composed Pura Vida!, a multi-movement work combining the Minnesota Orchestra with young musicians and dancers and introducing Latino styles of music to the young listener. Other projects have been completed for the Hong Kong Children's Choir, the Columbus Children's Choir, the Northeast Pennsylvania Choral Society, the Lake Superior Youth Chorus, and two consortiums of high school and college wind ensembles. His works for young audiences with narration include the wind octet Sea Creatures, and Yankee Doodling: A Young Person's Guide to the Concert Band. His most recent work for young singers, Come Make a Home, was written for the sesquicentennial celebration of Northfield, Minnesota, where the composer resides.
As a composer of music for worship, Kallman is best known for his liturgical setting "Light of Christ," commissioned for the Lutheran hymnal With One Voice and included in the Presbyterian hymnal Holy Is the Lord. His youth choir musical, Jubilee, We Are Set Free, has been widely performed. Kallman's church choir anthems, hymn settings and other liturgical service music are sung throughout the country.
Current projects in musical theater include serving as composer for the 2007 Great River Shakespeare Festival, and collaborating with Herbert Brokering on The Way Home, a musical based on the parable of the prodigal son.
Daniel Kallman received his musical training at Luther College
in Decorah, Iowa and at the University of Minnesota where he
studied composition under Dominick Argento and Paul Fetler. The
principal publishers of Kallman's music are Shawnee/Mark Foster
Press (children's choir), Morning Star Music (church choir),
Boosey and Hawkes (winds and choral), and MMB Music (orchestral).
All of Kallman's works are catalogued on his website at www.kallmancreates.com.
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Kallman
Creates Publications
519 Winona St.
Northfield, MN 55057
e-mail address: kallman@kallmancreates.com
Phone: 507-645-8788
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