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Daniel S. Godfrey News - List of Works - Biography - Discography - Audio Clips Biography "An exploration of richly and uncompromisingly American material. Godfrey displays a love of melodic phrase that reminds [one] of Barber, or even Gershwin." -- (Fanfare Magazine) "Godfrey's music is distinctly attractive, melodically and harmonically rich, almost romantic in its broad outlines." -- (American Record Guide) "Motions into tonality not so much like flirting but more like true love." -- (Village Voice) Daniel S. Godfrey (b. 1949) received B.A. and M.M. degrees in composition from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He is Professor and Composer-in-Residence at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music, and he has also held visiting faculty appointments at the Eastman School of Music, the Indiana University School of Music, and the University of Pittsburgh. He is founder and co-director of the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music (on the Maine coast) and is co-author of Music Since 1945, published by Schirmer Books. Awards and commissions have come from the J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among many others.