BIOGRAPHY:

Daniel S. Godfrey (b. 1949) received B.A. and M.M. degrees in composition from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He is Composer-in-Residence at Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music, and he has also held visiting faculty appointments at the Eastman School of Music, the Indiana University School of Music, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Godfrey has earned awards and commissions from the J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the Indiana State University/Louisville Orchestra Competition, the National Repertory Orchestra/US West Foundation Competition (First Prize), the Maine Arts Commission, the New York Foundation for the Arts (Met Life Fellowship) and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, among others. He is founder and co-director of the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music (on the Maine coast) and is co-author of Music Since 1945, published by Schirmer Books.

The New Yorker has listed Koch International Classic's 2004 release of Godfrey's String Quartets as one of 2004's top eleven classical CDs. Other Godfrey works are recorded on Albany, CRI, GM, Innova, Klavier, and Mark compact disks. His music is available through publishers Carl Fischer and G. Schirmer.

Godfrey's works have been performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Austin Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Chautauqua Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, U.S. Marine Band, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chicago Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, Earplay, Ensemble X, Kentucky Center Chamber Players, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Society for New Music, St. Louis Symphony Chamber Series, and the Cassatt, Degas, Lark, Manhattan and Portland string quartets, among others. Included are performances in Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Japan.