Maestro Marlon Daniel
Charleston
SC September 4, 2013 — Lee Pringle, President and Founder of the CSO Spiritual Ensemble, announced the appointment of Maestro
Marlon Daniel as the 2013 Colour of Music Festival Guest Music Director for the upcoming
Colour of Music Festival, the first-ever
all-black professional classical musicians festival featuring black
musicians, vocalists, and orchestra leaders performing piano, organ,
and voice recitals, chamber ensembles and orchestra and a newly formed
Colour of Music Chorale October 23-27, 2013 through downtown Charleston.
This five-day festival will present twenty
performances showcasing the breadth and influence of black artists and
musicians on the classical music world.
Maestro Marlon Daniel has been described as
“…the future of classical music on stage,” (Time Out), “…one of the youngest and most prominent pianists/conductors in New York today,” (Le Figaro-France Amérique) and his artistry has been hailed as “fabulous and exceptional” (Pravda–Moscow).
Mr. Daniel reacted
to his appointment with great enthusiasm, “I am absolutely delighted to
have been selected to be the inaugural music director and guest
conductor for this groundbreaking festival and am
thrilled and honored to help carry forward the legacy of Saint-Georges,
William Grant Still and others whose compositions and talents are not
household names in the U.S.”
“This festival’s
mission is to highlight the contributions black composers and
classically trained black musicians have contributed to the cultural
fiber of the United States and the world. Maestro Daniel
and the talented musicians converging on Charleston no doubt will
inspire young black students to further their musical pursuits,” says,
Lee Pringle producer of the week-long event.
About Marlon Daniel
One of the most dynamic conductors of his generation,
Marlon Daniel is winner of the 2009 John and Mary Virginia
Foncannon Conducting Award and has performed in some of the most
prestigious venues in Europe and the United States including New York’s
Carnegie Hall and Prague’s Rudolfinum.
He has received numerous prizes and awards including the Mabel Henderson
Memorial Grant for Foreign Experience, a Rose Hanus Fellowship, an
Honorary Key to the City of Chicago for Outstanding Musical Achievement
and the 2008 Voice of the Artist Award from the
United Nations in recognition of his charitable work to bring awareness
to the crisis in Darfur. Most recently he received the 2010 Dove Award
from the Global Association of Women for the Arts for Outstanding
Musical Achievement.
A leading advocate
of music by composers of African and African-American descent, Marlon
Daniel is Artistic Director of the Saint-Georges International Festival
in Guadeloupe and Principal Conductor of the
Festival of African and African-American Music where he collaborates
with some of today’s most prolific black composers to premiere new
works. He is credited with conducting the world premiere of Fred
Onovwerosuoke’s
Meditation for Darfur and Hampson Sisler’s Phoenix Forever Suite for Orchestra, the American premiere of Giya Kancheli’s
Night Prayers for Clarinet, Strings and Tape and the Russian premiere of William Grant Still’s
Afro-American Symphony.
Currently Maestro Daniel is Music Director of the
Ensemble du Monde, Principal Guest Conductor of the Sofia Sinfonietta.
Last February 2013, he was Resident Conductor of the Nassau Music
Society’s Festival of Afro-Caribbean Composers sponsored by Atlantis
Resort, French Alliance, Société Générale
and the Embassy of the United States.
Educated in both the United States and Europe, he has earned degrees
from the Manhattan School of Music (U.S), Le Conservatoire Américain
(France), Centro de Estudios Musicales Isaac Albéniz (Spain) and both
the Prague Academy and Conservatory, where he received
formative training in conducting while serving as Associate Conductor
of the Praga Sinfonietta.
Join us this fall for this exciting festival, the first of its kind, as we welcome Marlon Daniel to Charleston for the
Colour of Music Festival, October 23-27, 2013!
For more information about the
Colour of Music Festival www.colourofmusic.org; for more on
Marlon Daniel: www.marlondaniel.com
[Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) and William Grant Still (1895-1978) are profiled at AfriClassical.com. The website features a comprehensive Works List for William Grant Still by Prof. Dominique-René de
Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com]
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