Daniel Sonenberg

Daniel Sonenberg (born 1970)[1] is an American composer and performer.

Sonenberg was born in Manhattan, New York in 1970, and moved to Maine in 2004.[2] As a composer, he is best known for his opera The Summer King.[3][4] His work Baseball Songs won the Robert Starer Competition Prize.[1] He composed First Light: A Fanfare for Maine for performance by the Portland Symphony Orchestra at the Maine bicentennial celebrations.[5][6]

Sonenberg is a member of a rock band, Lovers of Fiction,[7] and has also released a solo album, Peaks Island Ferry.[3] He is a professor at the University of Southern Maine.[3]

References
  1. Daniel Sonenberg, Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music, retrieved 5 May 2021.
  2. Allan Kozinn (April 2017). King of Diamonds, Opera News.
  3. Daniel Sonenberg, University of Southern Maine, retrieved 6 May 2021.
  4. Rob Sneddon. Ball Canto, Down East, retrieved 6 May 2021.
  5. Rob Caldwell (9 March 2020). Capturing the sound of 200 years of Maine, News Center Maine.
  6. Bob Keyes (1 March 2020). Composers celebrate bicentennial by putting music to our years, Portland Press Herald.
  7. Chris Busby (8 August 2013). Lovers of Fiction, The Bollard.

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