Dan Welcher
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Dan Welcher (born 1948) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator.
Welcher was born in Rochester, New York and earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, studying bassoon, piano, and composition. He served the Louisville Orchestra as its Principal Bassoonist and taught composition and theory at the University of Louisville from 1972 to 1978. He also taught composition and bassoon at the Aspen Music Festival and School from 1976 until 1990. He joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Music in 1978.
Among Welcher’s numerous accolades include awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the American Music Center, and ASCAP, and has been performed by such orchestras as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Welcher currently holds the Lee Hage Jamail Regents Professorship in Composition at the School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching music composition and orchestration, and serving as Director of the UT New Music Ensemble, which he founded in 1978.
