Daniel Plante

Born in Portland, Maine, Daniel Plante has lived and worked chiefly in New York City. He received his first major performance in 1977 when Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic gave the world premiere of his cantata, Love in the Asylum. At present, Mr. Planteis completing a commission for a chamber concerto for violinist Yung-Hsiang Wang. He has had a distinguished career as a conductor, having directed the Haydn-Mozart Chamber Orchestra and the Ensemble of the Guild of Composers. As a theorist, he has written onthe music of Stravinsky, Webern and Debussy. Recently he completed a monograph entitled “Debussy’s ‘Prelude l’apres-midi d’un faun’ and the Creation of Post-Tonal Diatonicism” Mr. Plante has taught music theory at Princeton and Brandeis Unversities, the University of Massachusetts, and has directed chamber music at the Walnut Hill School. Currently he teaches in New York, where he also serves as contributing editor for the new Kurt Weill Edition.

The Two Songs for Baritone, Alto Flute, Lute, Guitar and Viola, set to poems of Constantine Cavafy, represent the first in a series of vocal-chamber pieces to ancient and modern Greek and Latin texts.

Duo Concertant for Viola, Piano, and Three Groups of Instruments was conceived as a duo, around which three groups of instruments:seven winds, seven strings, and seven percussion instruments – spatially separated, represent developments of the solo music and em-bellish, comment upon, and create a harmonic context for the soloists.