Daniel Zlatkin is a composer and a cellist, whose music aims to tell a story, stretch reality, and be maximally expressive. Listeners often describe it as visceral, clear, austere, bold, and humorous.
His works have been performed by leading and emerging artists, including the Da Capo Chamber Players, Calidore Quartet, soprano Lucy Dhegrae, saxophonist Jeffrey Siegfried, The Brass Project, violist Jiawei Yan, Choral Chameleon, Vanguard Reed Quintet, flautist Hannah Occeña, Front Porch, Khorikos, American Modern Ensemble, Lake Forest Civic Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and The Orchestra Now. His music has been featured by National Sawdust (Brooklyn), Music From Angel Fire (New Mexico), I Care If You Listen, and the Fisher Center for Performing Arts (Hudson Valley).
He is a recipient of a 2015 Davis Projects for Peace grant. He has been a finalist three times for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and was an alternate in the 2020 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
His works have been performed by leading and emerging artists, including the Da Capo Chamber Players, Calidore Quartet, soprano Lucy Dhegrae, saxophonist Jeffrey Siegfried, The Brass Project, violist Jiawei Yan, Choral Chameleon, Vanguard Reed Quintet, flautist Hannah Occeña, Front Porch, Khorikos, American Modern Ensemble, Lake Forest Civic Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and The Orchestra Now. His music has been featured by National Sawdust (Brooklyn), Music From Angel Fire (New Mexico), I Care If You Listen, and the Fisher Center for Performing Arts (Hudson Valley).
He is a recipient of a 2015 Davis Projects for Peace grant. He has been a finalist three times for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and was an alternate in the 2020 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
