Today’s featured video blog comes from Lauren Denney Wright, a conductor and clarinetist who is just starting a new position as Director of Wind Ensemble Activities at Berry College in Georgia! I’m sure it will be an exciting year to follow Lauren and see all that she is doing, so stay tuned for more of her vlogs! Check out her introductory video blog here.
Steve Danyew is a composer, saxophonist, teacher, and arts administrator based in Rochester, NY. Danyew composes works for chamber ensembles, large instrumental ensembles, choirs and more, and currently serves as Managing Editor of Polyphonic.org. His music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful” and “undeniably well crafted and communicative” by the Miami Herald, and has been praised as possessing “sensitivity, skill and tremendous sophistication” by the Kansas City Independent. Steve received a B.M. cum laude, Pi Kappa Lambda from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and holds an M.M. in Composition and Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music.