Daniel Lentz

Composer

Daniel Lentz has been a fixture of Southern California’s new-music scene for more than 50
years, prolifically creating a very personal music that can be wild and relentless, intricate in its musical processes, or simply lushly beautiful—and it’s often all of those things at once. His works have been commissioned and performed by such noted ensembles as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Zeitgeist, the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

“When it comes to attempts at musical seduction, Lentz’s music is way out front.” (Kyle Gann, Village Voice) “Lentz’s music inhabits . . . a musical ‘state of becoming,’ where both new and reappearing musical and textual fragments are fused through complex layering processes.” (John Schaefer, New Sounds, WNYC) Lentz’s music has appeared on nine Cold Blue albums.