Daniel Lentz

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Daniel Lentz (born March 10, 1942 (some sources say 1941), Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA) is a composer.

Daniel Lentz achieved much notoriety as a musician while quite young — when he was still a student at Brandeis University he was awarded a fellowship in composition at Tanglewood in the summer of 1966. This was followed by a Fulbright Fellowship in Electronic Music in 1967-68, to be completed in Stockholm, Sweden. After that he began working as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968. In 1970 he focused more on composing and performing. At this time he also formed a music ensemble, the California Time Machine which toured North America and Europe.

In 1972, he won the First Prize in the International Composers Competition ("Stichting Gaudeamus") in the Netherlands. Lentz was the first American to ever win that competition. Since then, he has won a number of other awards and grants, and to this day has a regular commission based composition practice.

Lentz then formed and led another music ensemble, the San Andreas Fault, which made several tours of the North America and Europe and released several recordings in Europe.

Returning to California, Lentz formed the Daniel Lentz Group in Los Angeles. This ensemble has toured much of the world and has released a number of recordings.

He has a daughter from his first marriage, and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his second wife, Lisa.

[edit] Discography

This information was obtained from his website and from New Albion Records and Cold Blue Music.

Voices, Aoede Records
Wild Turkeys, Aoede Records
wolfMASS, Aoede Records
Point Conception, Aoede Records
Huit ou Neuf Pieces Dorées à Point, Aoede Records
Collection, Aoede Records
Self Portrait, Aoede Records
Butterfly Blood, Aoede Records
Missa Umbrarum, New Albion Records
Portraits, (with John Adams, Paul Dresher, Ingram Marshall, and Stephen Scott), New Albion Records
Apologetica, New Albion Records
b.e.comings, Fontec/Rhizome Sketch Records
Walk Into My Voice, (with Harold Budd and Jessica Karraker), Materiali Sonori
3 Pianos, (with Harold Budd and Ruben Garcia), Virgin Records
The Crack in the Bell, Angel-EMI Records
On The Leopard Altar, Icon Records
After Images, Cold Blue Music
Spell, ABC Command Records
Cold Blue Anthology, Cold Blue Music
Los Tigres de Marte, Cold Blue Music
On the Leopard Altar, Cold Blue Music