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GREG DANNER (b. 1958)

Greg Danner is Professor of Music at Tennessee Technological University. Born in St. Louis, Missouri (1958) he received the B.A. from Southeast Missouri State University, the M.M. from the Eastman School of Music, and the Ph.D. from Washington University. His awards include the College Band Directors National Association Music for Young Band prize, vocal category and grand prize in the Delius Society composition contest, first prize in the Composers Guild composition contest, first prize in the Taghkanic Chorale composers competition, and the Louisiana Music Teachers Association Composer Commission Award.
Greg Danner

Recent commissions include works for the U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America, the Tennessee Music Education Association, and the Gateway Music Festival. Dr. Danner has received annual ASCAP awards for composition since 1989.

An active performer (horn), he has held positions with the Baton Rouge and Acadiana orchestras in Louisiana and has performed with the Huntsville (AL) Symphony, the Lake Charles and Rapides Orchestras in Louisiana and the Saint Louis, Saint Louis Municipal Opera, and Webster Groves orchestras in Missouri. He is a former member of the Louisiana Brass Quintet and Evangeline Wind Quintet. Dr. Danner is currently hornist with the Brass Arts Quintet, the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, and Tennessee Philharmonic. He is a freelance and studio musician in the Nashville area.

Website: http://www.GregDanner.com/

WORKS

Chamber
Dream of Flight, A (brass and percussion ensemble)
Edge (vibraphone/trombone)
Festival Celebration, A (antiphonal brass choir)
Rhapsody for Clarinet (clarinet and piano)
Rhapsody for Trumpet (trumpet and piano)
Serengeti (brass quintet and 1 percussion)
Shazam! (brass quintet)
Singing Wood (clarinet/marimba duet)
Time... (clarinet, soprano, piano)

Concert Band
Beautiful River
Country Dances
Cuico (solo percussion trio feature)
Dedication
Down by the Salley Gardens
Footprints
Free
Goosebumps (Grade 1)
Greatest Generation, The (Grade 5 w/ narrator)
I Have a Dream
Mira!
Nebula
Of Thee I Sing
On Great White Wings
Seconds, Please!
Slide Ride (solo trombone feature)
The Water Is Wide
Waverider
Zephyr

Percussion
Cuico (solo percussion trio w/ band)
Five Ages (solo timpani)