Greg Danner


Greg Danner is an award-winning contemporary American composer, educator, and professional musician. He is currently the composer-in-residence and professor at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He is the 2010 Composer's Guild Grand Prize winner.

Biography

Danner was born May 16, 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied composition at Southeast Missouri State University, the Eastman School of Music, and Washington University where he received his Ph.D.. He studied composition under Charles Smith, Samuel Adler, and Robert Wykes. Danner is known primarily as a composer of music for wind bands but has composed for choirs and various chamber ensembles. He is part of a generation of American composers advocating for the American wind ensemble's place in classical music and writes to expand the repertoire of classical wind music. Danner’s 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 Taghkanic Chorale composers competition, and the Louisiana Music Teachers Association and Kentucky Music Teachers Association Composer Commission Awards. He is a three-time winner in the annual Composers Guild composition contest, and in 2010 was awarded the contest's Grand Prize. Danner has received annual ASCAP awards for composition since 1989. In addition to his composing, Danner is active as a hornist in several orchestras, brass ensembles, and chamber groups in the middle Tennessee region.
Danner’s works are published by C. Alan Publications, Daehn Publications, Grand Mesa Music Publishers, TRN, Cimarron Music, Tuba-Euphonium Press, Bourne Music, and Medici Music Press.

Partial Works

"Auroral Skies" Altissimo!, 2008
"Serengeti" Mark Masters, 2007
"Legacy" Mark Masters, 2007
"Arete" Mark Records, 2007
Performed by the Tennessee Tech University Trombone Choir, Joshua Hauser, director
"Into the Blue" Albany Records, 2006
Performer-French horn
"Slide Ride: Works for Solo Trombone and Band" Mark Masters, 2005
"Impressions" Mark Masters, 2005
"Tennessee Tech Pride" Mark Masters, 2003
"Teaching Music Through Performance in Band Vol. 4 Grade 4" GIA CD-603, 2001
"2000 Midwest Clinic: Vandercook College of Music" Mark Records √
Performed by the Vandercook College of Music Symphonic Band, Charles T. Menghini, conductor
"Shazam!" Mark Custom Recordings, 1999
"Band Music of Distinction Volume V". Daehn Publications
Performed with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, Joseph Hermann, conductor
"Unleash the Beast" Mark Records, 1995