King of Prussia, PA — Theodore Presser Company is pleased to announce a new edition of Daniel Dorff’s Flash! for solo piccolo with band accompaniment. The winner of the 2009 International Piccolo Symposium biennial composition competition in its original version for piccolo and piano, this edition comes fresh from the NFA premiere featuring piccolo legend Walfrid Kujala, who commissioned the new band version specifically for this concert, following his many performances of the original piccolo and piano version. The East Coast premiere is scheduled for November 18, 2010, featuring Boston Symphony piccoloist Linda Toote with the Boston University wind ensemble.

Daniel Dorff was born in New Rochelle, NY; acclaim came early with First Prize in the Aspen Music Festival’s annual composers’ competition at age 18 for his Fantasy, Scherzo and Nocturne for saxophone quartet. Dorff received degrees in composition from Cornell and University of Pennsylvania; teachers included George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick. He studied saxophone with Sigurd Rascher. In 1996, Dorff was named Composer-In-Residence for Symphony in C (formerly Haddonfield Symphony), in which he played bass clarinet from 1980 through 2002. Dorff’s works have been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, and Eastman Wind Ensemble, and many more.

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