Daniel Lentz (born March 10, 1942 (some sources say 1941), Latrobe, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is a composer. Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Latrobe (leɪˈtʃroʊb is a City in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States approximately 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance
Daniel Lentz achieved much notoriety 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. A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a Brandeis University is a private research University with a Liberal arts focus located in Waltham Massachusetts, United States. Tanglewood is an estate and Music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge Massachusetts and is the home of the annual summer Tanglewood Music Festival Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. This was followed by a Fulbright Fellowship in Electronic Music in 1967-68, to be completed in Stockholm, Sweden. The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ('stɔkhɔlm is Sweden 's Capital and its largest City. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. After that he began working as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968. The University of California Santa Barbara ( UCSB) is a selective research-oriented public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County California Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1970 he focused more on composing and performing. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. At this time he also formed a music ensemble, the California Time Machine which toured North America and Europe.
In 1972, he won the First Prize in the International Composers Competition ("Stichting Gaudeamus") in the Netherlands. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Lentz was the first American to ever win that competition. Since then, he has won a number of other awards and grants, and to this day has a regular commission based composition practice.
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. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West This ensemble has toured much of the world and has released a number of recordings.
He has a daughter from his first marriage, and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
This information was obtained from his Web site, New Albion Records, and Cold Blue Music. The article is about sound recordings For the Pet Shop Boys album see Discography The Complete Singles Collection.