Daniel Kallman's compositions for orchestra, winds, and choir are widely published and
performed across North America, 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 Hong Kong Children's Choir, the Minnesota Orchestra, A Prairie Home Companion, and a wide variety of vocal and instrumental ensembles.
Commission and Performance Highlights:
"Thank you for writing such sweet and meaningful melodies/texts with beautiful accompaniments! . . I especially love the way you write for children . . ." Amy Nelson, Director of the Children's Chorus of the Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota, Rochester, MN.
Two more of Dan's choral compositions have been selected by Henry Leck for his Creating Artistry Series with Hal Leonard Publishing. Look for the following titles to be released in May 2012: Glorificamus Te! (SATB, piano) and There Will Be Rest (SSA(A), piano, flute).
Hey church musicians--still planning for Easter? Dan has combined the texts for Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee and Easter Hymn of Gladness on one choral score. More ideas for Epiphany, Transfiguration, Lent and Easter are found on the Worship Planning Resource page.
The Symphony Band and University Band of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls performed three Kallman works on their winter concert December 6. Dan delivered remarks and read limericks for There was a composer of genius . . (A Whimsical Celebration of Four American Composers).
The Northfield Youth Choirs commissioned Dan to set a medley of sacred carols for their December concert in commemoration of their 25th anniversary season. All six of their choirs were featured, ages 7 to 18. The St. Olaf Handbell Choir was also featured on the medley, entitled Children, Come!
Dan conducted West Side Story this fall at Northfield High School, Northfield, Minnesota, with an amazingly talented cast, design staff, and orchestra.
"Our Olympia Youth Chorus 'Dolce' choir (K-2) sang 'Won't You Sing Along?' at our fall concert last night to the delight of everyone. Thank you so much for writing wonderful pieces for young singers! We love your music!!" Beth Tobin, Director of 'Dolce' Choir, Olympia Youth Chorus, Olympia, Washington.
New! Improved! Three of Dan's choral works have revisions or additional instrumentations. Now We Await Your Coming, Lord/Veni Emmanuel (Advent response for solo cantor, SATB, piano, opt. congregation) now is available with optional chamber orchestration. Let All the World In Every Corner Sing (SA(T)B, SSA or TTBB; piano) now has optional chamber orchestration. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee and Easter Hymn of Gladness (both for SATB, brass quintet, organ) are now available with both texts on one choral score.
Two of Dan's works for winds were performed by the Hopkins Westwind Concert Band on October 30 at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN. The composer conducted A Visit With Old Joe for full winds. A chamber group performed An American Tapestry.
NEW from MorningStar Music: Down by the Riverside: Six Songs for Saxophone & Piano, a collection of six settings of American folk songs and spirituals for alto sax and piano. A much needed book for saxophone that can be used in church, school, or for concert use. C instrument parts are also included to make this a flexible collection.
Be Still, a new work for SATB and piano was premiered at Easter Lutheran in Eagan, MN, on October 8. It will be available on the web site soon.
Now available from Hal Leonard Corp. (Henry Leck Series): Come Closer (unison treble voices, piano) 3'00". If only the little singing bird would come closer. It Was a Lover and His Lass (SSA or TB) 3'30". A playful, whimsical treatment of Shakespeare's text about springtime love.
Unison Treble Voices will also enjoy Won't You Sing Along? and I Love It When, still published by Kallman Creates Publications. 
The National Lutheran Choir performed Kallman's Behold the All, By Singing (SATB, cello), in May 2011. We heard all four movements of this setting of Herb Brokering's moving text, an ecstatic outburst on the beauty and mystery of life, creation, faith and salvation. The first and fourth movements were premiered last spring by NLC ("fine and compelling" - David Hawley, St. Paul Pioneer Press). More about Behold the All, By Singing, including program notes . . .
That's a Very Good Question, Kallman's first foray into the big band jazz genre, was premiered by the Winona State University Jazz Ensemble in April 2011.
Kallman's band music was showcased in the spring of 2011 at Minnesota State University (Mankato, MN), Winona State University (Winona, MN), Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), and St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN). He also served as guest composer.
Now available: There was a composer of genius . . . (wind ensemble) A recent commission combines the creation of a musical score with one of Dan's hobbies--coining limericks. The result is a four-movement work for wind ensemble entitled There was a composer of genius . . . (A Whimsical Celebration of Four American Composers) premiered in 2010 and 2011 by 29 wind ensembles in 13 states through a consortium commission funded by an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.(more . . )
The Women's Chorale of Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN, premiered a newly commissioned work, Vestigia, in April of 2011.
Let All the World In Every Corner Sing was performed by the National Youth Chorus (Anton Armstrong, conductor) at Carnegie Hall in February, 2011, and by the massed choir at the Michigan Federation of Music Clubs Annual Convention in Lansing, Michigan in May of 2011.