"Impressionism with an American accent."

Daniel Strong Godfrey (b. 1949) has earned awards and commissions from the J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, among many others. He is founder and co-director of the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music (on the Maine coast) and is coauthor of Music Since 1945, published by Schirmer Books. Godfrey’s works can be heard on the Albany, Bridge, New World, GM, Innova, Klavier, Koch, and Mark recording labels, in addition to an upcoming release on New Focus Recordings. His music is available through publishers Carl Fischer, G. Schirmer, and Opus Imprints. Godfrey is Professor Emeritus of Music at Northeastern University. Prior to his appointment at Northeastern, he was Professor of Music Composition, Theory, and History at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music. He has also held guest teaching appointments at The Indiana University School of Music and Eastman School of Music.