Daniel Koontz is a classically trained composer and musician from Sag Harbor. He earned an M.A. in composition in 1996 and a Ph.D. in 2000 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Koontz has won several awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and was twice a regional winner in the Society of Composers/ASCAP Student Composer Competition. In 2001, he served a residency at MacDowell and won a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He currently teaches music at Southampton College.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Daniel Koontz
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Southampton, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001, 2002
Studios
Veltin
Daniel Koontz worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…