Rate My Professor Daniel Crozier

Daniel Crozier serves as Professor of Music, Theory, and Composition at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and previously held faculty positions at the Peabody Preparatory and Radford University. Crozier's compositions have garnered performances and recordings by distinguished ensembles and soloists, such as the Fort Worth Opera, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, New York City Opera, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Songfest 2004, Winsor Music, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, oboist Peggy Pearson, soprano Mary Mackenzie, and pianists Heidi Louise Williams and Vivian Choi. His music has been released on labels including Albany Records, Navona Records, MARK Records, ACA Digital, and Parma Records.

Among his principal works are the operas The Reunion, recipient of an ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Grant, and With Blood, With Ink, which won first prize in the National Opera Association Chamber Opera Competition, was featured in the New York City Opera's Showcasing American Composers Series in 2000, and received its professional staging by the Fort Worth Opera in 2014. Other significant compositions include Symphony No. 1 "Triptych for Orchestra," Ceremonies for Orchestra (recorded by the Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz), and Toccata for Soprano Saxophone and String Trio, premiered in 2002 by Branford Marsalis and the Walden Chamber Players. Crozier has been honored with annual ASCAP Special Awards since 1996, a fellowship from the State of Florida’s Division of Cultural Affairs, first prize in the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s commissioning competition for Florida Composers, first prize in the Fresh Ink competition, and five nominations from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His academic interests focus on music theory and composition, particularly in operatic, orchestral, and chamber genres.