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Daniel Zlatkin is an award-winning composer, cellist, and educator. His late mother, an accomplished flutist, was his first teacher. Seeing music as a meditation and a journey into a deeper world, he locates its origin in the human voice. He finds artistic resonance with expressionism, Stravinsky, Jung, mysticism, fantasy, visual art, free jazz, science fiction, and the simple and joyful.
His music has been featured by the American Art School of Fontainebleau (France), Citadelle Art Museum (Texas), Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (Hudson Valley), Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), Music From Angel Fire (New Mexico), National Flute Association, National Sawdust (Brooklyn), and Unerhörte Musik (Berlin).
Currently a doctoral fellow at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, Daniel studies with Pierre Jalbert.
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Daniel Zlatkin is an award-winning composer, cellist, and educator. His late mother, an accomplished flutist, was his first teacher. Seeing music as a meditation and a journey into a deeper world, he locates its origin in the human voice. He finds artistic resonance with expressionism, Stravinsky, Jung, mysticism, fantasy, visual art, free jazz, science fiction, and the simple and joyful.
His music has been featured by the American Art School of Fontainebleau (France), Citadelle Art Museum (Texas), Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (Hudson Valley), Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), Music From Angel Fire (New Mexico), National Flute Association, National Sawdust (Brooklyn), and Unerhörte Musik (Berlin).
Ensembles who have performed his music include Choral Chameleon, Da Capo Chamber Players, Ensemble du Bout du Monde, Khorikos, Lake Forest Civic Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Nunc Music, TŌN, The Brass Project, and the Vanguard Reed Quintet.
Solo artists who have collaborated with him include baritone Luke Sutliff, cellists Raman Ramakrishnan and Richard Narroway, conductors Kevin Fitzgerald, Leon Botstein, Robert Nordling, Vince Peterson, and William Boughton, flautists Patricia Spencer and Hannah Occeña, pianist Blair McMillen, saxophonists Jeff Siegfried and Don-Paul Kahl, sheng virtuoso Wu Wei, soprano Lucy Dhegrae, and trumpeter Nathan Plante.
He co-founded the musical mentorship organization Cuerdas Para Cali, and actively seeks ways to present contemporary classical music to the broader community, especially in schools. He is a recipient of a Davis Projects for Peace grant (2015), and has also earned support for outreach through Rice University's Sviatoslav Richter Fund (2020) and the University of Michigan's EXCEL Enterprise Fund (2016, '17). He has been a finalist five times for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award (2015, '18, '19, '2, '22), and was an alternate in the 2020 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. He was selected by New York City Contemporary Music Symposium's and Boston New Music Initiative's call for scores in 2021.
Daniel holds bachelor degrees in composition, cello performance, and political science from Bard College, and a master's degree in composition from the University of Michigan. He is currently a doctoral fellow at Rice University, where he studies with Pierre Jalbert.
Daniel Zlatkin is an award-winning composer, cellist, and educator. His late mother, an accomplished flutist, was his first teacher. Seeing music as a meditation and a journey into a deeper world, he locates its origin in the human voice. He finds artistic resonance with expressionism, Stravinsky, Jung, mysticism, fantasy, visual art, free jazz, science fiction, and the simple and joyful.
His music has been featured by the American Art School of Fontainebleau (France), Citadelle Art Museum (Texas), Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (Hudson Valley), Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), Music From Angel Fire (New Mexico), National Flute Association, National Sawdust (Brooklyn), and Unerhörte Musik (Berlin).
Currently a doctoral fellow at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, Daniel studies with Pierre Jalbert.
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Daniel Zlatkin is an award-winning composer, cellist, and educator. His late mother, an accomplished flutist, was his first teacher. Seeing music as a meditation and a journey into a deeper world, he locates its origin in the human voice. He finds artistic resonance with expressionism, Stravinsky, Jung, mysticism, fantasy, visual art, free jazz, science fiction, and the simple and joyful.
His music has been featured by the American Art School of Fontainebleau (France), Citadelle Art Museum (Texas), Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (Hudson Valley), Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), Music From Angel Fire (New Mexico), National Flute Association, National Sawdust (Brooklyn), and Unerhörte Musik (Berlin).
Ensembles who have performed his music include Choral Chameleon, Da Capo Chamber Players, Ensemble du Bout du Monde, Khorikos, Lake Forest Civic Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Nunc Music, TŌN, The Brass Project, and the Vanguard Reed Quintet.
Solo artists who have collaborated with him include baritone Luke Sutliff, cellists Raman Ramakrishnan and Richard Narroway, conductors Kevin Fitzgerald, Leon Botstein, Robert Nordling, Vince Peterson, and William Boughton, flautists Patricia Spencer and Hannah Occeña, pianist Blair McMillen, saxophonists Jeff Siegfried and Don-Paul Kahl, sheng virtuoso Wu Wei, soprano Lucy Dhegrae, and trumpeter Nathan Plante.
He co-founded the musical mentorship organization Cuerdas Para Cali, and actively seeks ways to present contemporary classical music to the broader community, especially in schools. He is a recipient of a Davis Projects for Peace grant (2015), and has also earned support for outreach through Rice University's Sviatoslav Richter Fund (2020) and the University of Michigan's EXCEL Enterprise Fund (2016, '17). He has been a finalist five times for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award (2015, '18, '19, '2, '22), and was an alternate in the 2020 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. He was selected by New York City Contemporary Music Symposium's and Boston New Music Initiative's call for scores in 2021.
Daniel holds bachelor degrees in composition, cello performance, and political science from Bard College, and a master's degree in composition from the University of Michigan. He is currently a doctoral fellow at Rice University, where he studies with Pierre Jalbert.