Daniel Asia
"I enjoy engaging in the process of conspiring with musicians to bring my music out into the world. I have recently returned to the world of electro-acoustic music, after a twenty year hiatus. I find its sonic possibilities, and the ability to control the final realization of those possibilities, truly exciting. The interaction of these different musical spheres provoke intriguing synergies."
Daniel Asia is a composer of works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and solo performers. His music explores a connection between intricate rhythms and and shifting colors an textures of sound, moving freely between the boisterous and the sensuous. His major works include At The Far Edge, Black Light, Gateways, and three song cycles.
His work has been commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra, Koussevitsky Music Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation ... His awards are from Meet The Composer / Reader's Digest Consortium, United Kingdom Fulbright Arts Award, Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Grant, McDowell Colony, Tanglewood ... He founded Musical Elements, a contemporary instrumental ensemble based in New York City.
Daniel Asia currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is on the faculty of the University of Arizona and Music Director of the Arizona Contemporary Ensemble.
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