Sponsors Daniel Kallman, Composer Daniel Kallman maintains a large and varied catalog of works for orchestra, winds, chorus, chamber ensemble and the young musician. His steady stream of commissions includes music for worship, theater, dance, radio and the concert stage. Kallman's works are performed across the United States, Europe and East Asia. He has composed for the National Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, A Prairie Home Companion, Vocalessence, and a wide variety of vocal and instrumental ensembles. He has received support from the American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, and the McKnight and Jerome Foundations. Kallman continues to work on concert and recording projects with Garrison Keillor and Philip Brunelle, most recently completing arrangements and orchestrations for concerts in Houston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. As a composer of music for worship, Kallman is best known for his liturgical setting "Light of Christ" which is included in the Lutheran hymnal With One Voice and the new Presbyterian hymnal Holy Is The Lord. His church choir anthems, hymn settings and other liturgical service music are sung widely throughout the country. They are available from many publishers, chiefly Morning Star Music, Kjos Music and Kallman Creates Publications. Kallman has fulfilled many commissions for the young musican and youth audiences, often conducting premieres of his new works. Recent projects have been completed for the Hong Kong Children's Choir, the New World Singers of the Columbus (OH) Children's Choir, the Lake Superior Youth Chorus, and two consortiums of high school and college wind ensembles. His popular works for young audiences with narration include the wind octet Sea Creatures (Boosey and Hawkes), and Yankee Doodling: A Young Person's Guide to the Concert Band (Kallman Creates Publications). A third recording of the latter work will be released in December 2004 by the United States Air Force Academy Band. Kallman has also collaborated with his wife on a youth choir musical for worship, Jubilee, We Are Set Free. Most recently, Kallman has been active composing for musical theater. Works in this genre include the full length musical Donata's Gift and several songs and incidental music for three Shakespeare plays. He served as arranger/orchestrator for the reopening in July 2004 of The Last Minstrel Show, a critically acclaimed musical based on a 1920 lynching in Duluth, MN. He is currently working on The Way Home, a musical theater collaboration with Herbert Brokering based on the parable of the prodigal son. Kallman's orchestral works continue to receive many performances, most recently by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and several performances conducted by Doc Severinsen with the Milwaukee Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra. Daniel Kallman was musically raised in Austin, Minnesota and continued his education at Luther College and the University of Minnesota where he studied composition under Paul Fetler and Dominick Argento. He resides in Northfield, Minnesota where he has served as a member the music faculty of St. Olaf College and as a church musician. Since the beginning of the new millenium he has worked as a full time composer/arranger. The principle publishers of Kallman's music are Shawnee/Mark Foster Press (children's choir), Morning Star Music (church choir), Boosey and Hawkes (winds and choral) and MMB Music (orchestral). Many other titles are available through several other publishers, primarily the composer's own company, Kallman Creates Publications. All of his works and other musical activities are catalogued on his website at www.kallmancreates.com.