Daniel Lentz

Daniel Lentz (born March 10, 1942), Latrobe, Pennsylvania, is an electronic Western classical-music composer.

Daniel Lentz achieved much fame 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, which was 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 Gaudeamus International Composers Award. Since then, he has won a number of other awards and grants, and to this day has a regular commission-based composition practice.^{[citation needed]}

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.

His 1987 album The Crack in the Bell was the first contemporary classical release from Angel/EMI Records.

He has a daughter from his first marriage and now lives in Southern California.

Discography

This information was obtained from his Web site, 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/EMI Records
• The Crack in the Bell, Angel/EMI Records
• On The Leopard Altar, Icon Records
• After Images, Cold Blue Music
• Spell, ABC Command Records
• Dancing on Water, contains Song(s) of the Sirens, with Peter Garland, Michael Byron, Rick Cox, Jim Fox, and others, Cold Blue Music
• The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue, contains all After Images tracks, Cold Blue Music
• Cold Blue anthology, contains You Can't See the Forest ... Music, with Ingram Marshall, Chas Smith, Harold Budd, Michael Byron, Jim Fox, and others, Cold Blue Music
• Los Tigres de Marte, Cold Blue Music
• On the Leopard Altar, Cold Blue Music
• Point Conception, Cold Blue Music

External links

• Daniel Lentz, Composer - Official Website
• Daniel Lentz’s label
• New Albion Records - a label that has released some of his music
• Cold Blue Music — a label that has released some of his music
• His page at Allmusic

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