Dan Forrest was born in Elmira, NY, in 1978. He holds graduate degrees in piano performance and composition. His composition teachers have included James Barnes, Dwight Gustafson, Joan Pinkston, and Alice Parker.

Dan’s works have won numerous contests, awards, and acclamations, including the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Award, the ACDA Raymond Brock Competition, the Donald Sutherland Endowment Composition Contest, the Raabe Prize, the University of Kansas Choral Society Composition Contest, the Vanguard Premieres Choral Competition, the John Ness Beck Foundation Prize, the Anthony Cius Award, and annual ASCAP Standard Awards since 2003. He was also recently named a finalist in the 2009 Frank Ticheli International Band Composition Contest.

We are delighted to present four new works from this extremely talented composer.

+ A Basque Lullaby (concert band Gr. III)
+ Grafenburg Variations (concert band Gr. IV)
+ Sonata for Trombone & Piano
+ Sonata for Violin & Piano

+ Composer Profile Page

Over 70 New Works
Concert Band
Orchestra
Percussion Ensemble
Solo Percussion
Chamber

4 C. Alan Band & Orchestra Pieces
selected as
J.W. Pepper Editor's Choice

A Basque Lullaby - Dan Forrest
Downtown Dash - Nathan Daughtrey
Slane - Elliot Del Borgo
Erin Isle Sketches - Elliot Del Borgo

Upcoming Events

Texas Orchestra Directors Association Convention
July 29-August 1, 2009
San Antonio, TX

The Jazz Drummer's Reading Workbook
Tom Morgan
(drum set method book)

Foundations for Strings
Elliot Del Borgo
(string method)