American Music Center member Pi Kappa Lambda, National Music Honor Society member ASCAP member Society of Composers, Inc. member since 1998. A non-profit professional organization for composers of new music. Birmingham Art Music Alliance member from 1998-2001. Concert committee member 2001. |
Daniel Gilliam (b. 1978) is a composer living in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Lacey Hunter Gilliam (a frequent performer of his songs) and their two children. Gilliam is a composer for the voice, choral, chamber, and orchestral performing forces. Recent commissions include "Then Sing" for the Louisville Youth Choir, organ music, and other choral works for churches. Gilliam studied at Samford University (B.M. 2001) and the University of Kansas (M.M. 2003); composition with James A. Jensen and Charles Hoag; voice with Paul A. Richardson and Genaro Mendez. He currently works for WUOL (90.5 FM) and teaches adjunct at Spalding University. Daniel Gilliam hosts Brave New World, a program devoted modern composers, on WUOL (www.wuol.org/bravenewworld.htm). Daniel has received many performances of his music through the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, Improvisation Festival, Samford University, Kansas Composers Project, University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra, Bob Jones University, University of Miami, Butler University and other arts organizations. Search for my website at http://www.newmusicjukebox.org/ http://www.wuol.org/bravenewworld.htm Updated: May 2, 2006 |
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News and Performances: UPCOMING PERFORMANCES December 24, 2007 (7pm and 11pm): "Christmas Hymn" performed by Second Presbyterian Church, Louisville, KY. Daniel Gilliam, conducting March 3, 2007 at 8:00pm, "Then Sing" for the 40th Anniversary season of the Louisville Youth Choir, for SATB, SSA, and chamber orchestra W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre Louisville, KY Past Performances and News: October 1998: "En La Mano de Dios" for speaker and piano premiered at the University of Alabama in Birmingham http://www.vhnet.net/bama/Season1999.html April 2000: "Introduction and Fughetta" for organ premeired at Samford Unversity http://www.vhnet.net/bama/Season2000.html October 2000: "Isaiah VI" for solo percussionist premiered at Samford University. http://www.vhnet.net/bama/Season2001.html December 2001: University of Kansas premiere of "Sine Nomine" for orchestra. Brian Priestman conducted. http://www.ur.ku.edu/News/01N/NovNews/Nov29/kuso.html November 2003: "Lux Aeterna" selected to be performed at the 2003 SCI Student National Conference. http://mill.music.miami.edu/sci/conference.htm February 2005: "Three Shakespeare Songs" wins honorable mention from the University of Kansas Choral Society Composers Competition. http://www.ku.edu/~guild/ November 2005: "Nocturnes" for soprano and piano - SCI Region V Conference, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN May 2006: "Fanfare and Processional", performed by David K. Lamb, organist First Presbyterian Church Jeffersonville, IN "Before I Formed You" for choir, violin, and piano, commissioned by St. Aloysius Catholic Church St. Aloysius Catholic Church Louisville, KY June 2006: June 11, 2006, "Celebration of Giving" for organ, performed by David K. Lamb at St. Augustin Church, Paris, France. June 15, 2006, "Celebration of Giving" for organ, performed by David K. Lamb at La Trinite, Paris, France. December 10, 2006: "Christmas Hymn" for choir and organ. Festive Voices; Roger Lamb, conductor. Louisville, KY, Location TBA. |
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Nocturnes |
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| Nocturnes.pdf - complete | |||
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The second song "A Night Song" is available as an MP3 below... | |||
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Three Shakespeare Songs |
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| Three Shakespeare Songs.pdf - complete | |||
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Honorable Mention from the KU Choral Society Composers Competition. | |||
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Langston Hughes Songs |
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| Langston Hughes Songs.mp3 - complete | |||
| Langston Hughes Songs.pdf - complete | |||
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"A Night Song" from Nocturnes |
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| "A Night Song" from Nocturnes.mp3 - complete | |||
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Lacey Gilliam, soprano and Amy Doerfler, piano, recorded November 2005 at Butler University. | |||
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