2006 Commissioned Composer
Daniel Brewbaker began music lessons at age 5 and formal training in composition at age 17 with Gordon Binkerd at the University of Illinois, continuing with Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter at the Juilliard School in New York where he received the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts Degrees. Since then his works have been performed by leading conductors and soloists worldwide. In recent years Dr. Brewbaker has been commissioned to compose several large choral/orchestral works: The Poet for Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Chorus and Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia, Cincinnatus Psalm for James Conlon and the Cincinnati Symphony and Chorus, Fields of Vision for Gerard Schwarz, The Young People’s Chorus of New York City and The New York Chamber Symphony, and Out of the Mist, Above the Real for Doreen Rao, The Irish Chamber Orchestra, Soprano Noirin Ni Riain, Uilleann Pipes and the CME Festival Chorus in Dublin, Ireland. Other recent commissions include Piano Concerto No. 2 for Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony, Song of the Vine, premiered by Chanticleer for the inauguration of Copia in Napa, CA, The Journey, premiered by Frederica von Stade and Music in The Vineyards Chamber Music Festival at the Napa Valley Opera House, a Violin Concerto, Playing and Being Played, for Vadim Repin, Yuri Temirkanov and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, a little innocence for the Children’s Aid Society Chorus of NYC, String Quartet No. 2, Dance for my Fathers, for the 100th Anniversary of the Juilliard School, a number of choral works and two Ballets. Current commissions include a Viola Concerto for Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists, a work for chorus and piano for the 25th Anniversary of The New Classic Singers in Glen Ellyn, IL, and a work for brass choir for the 30th Anniversary of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Dr. Brewbaker’s music has been performed in recent seasons by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Youth Chorus, the Seattle Symphony and Children’s Chorus, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Chanticleer, The Macmillan Singers, Belle Voci women’s chorus, and soloists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Carter Brey, Kristine Jepson and Richard Goode.
Dr. Brewbaker has been Composer-in-Residence at the Spoleto USA Music Festival in Charleston, S.C., the Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Fundación Valparaíso in Spain, the Ligurian Study Center in Italy, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. He has received awards from, among others, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, The Nadia Boulanger Foundation, Outstanding Young Men in America and the International Rotary Foundation, and the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame. He has held teaching positions at Juilliard, Hunter and Queens Colleges (CUNY), St. Stephen’s School in Rome, and the Westminster Choir College. Dr. Brewbaker is also active as a guest conductor and lecturer. He has lived and worked extensively abroad, working with composers Hans Werner Henze, Luciano Berio and Henri Dutilleaux. His music is published by Boosey & Hawkes. Dr. Brewbaker currently lives in New York City.
Naperville, My Naperville—commission funded by a grant from the Naperville Sunrise Rotary Fund for the Arts for the 175th Anniversary of Naperville, Spring 2006
