Biography.

Composition, performance and research.

Danny Saleeb is a British composer born in 1985. His work explores the tension between computational and intuitive modes of composing, and he makes eclectic work across wide-ranging performance contexts, often working with extramusical media and drawing on disparate musical styles.

Recent works include: Keepers of the Corallite (2018) , commissioned by the Veronica Stewart Arts Trust, and written in collaboration with poet Zoë Palmer, for Iestyn Davies, Liam Byrne and Jonas Nordberg; Soliloquy (2019) , commissioned by the John Armitage Memorial Trust, for the Chapel Choir of Selwyn, Cambridge, Simon Hogan and Onyx Brass; hello, world (2020) , commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for their Postcards from Composers project, and performed in broadcast by Lise Aferiat (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra); The Virgin Mary (2022) , commissioned by Nicholas Shaw and the Chapel Choir of Lincoln’s Inn; The Promise (2021-23) , an operatic adaptation for children of the book of the same name by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin, toured around the UK in 2023; and We played Tallis (2024) performed by viol consort colleague and cellist Mari MacGregor, himself, and the University of York Piano Ensemble.

Danny is a PhD student at the University of York researching procedural infidelity in process-based composition, supervised by Martin Suckling and Federico Reuben and supported by the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. He previously studied with: Grayston Ives, Thomas Hyde, Kenneth Hesketh, and Julian Phillips, and he now teaches theory, musicianship and composition at Sheffield Music Academy.

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