Daniel Trueman

Associate Professor of Music

Dan is a composing performer on both the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and 6-string electric violin. His duo Trollstilt released its first CD of original tunes in 2000 and has performed widely at both contemporary music festivals and folk music festivals. He also plays and teaches traditional Hardanger fiddle music. As an improviser, he performs regularly with interface, an electronic improvisation ensemble. Their first CD, ./swank, was released in early 2001 and their DVD, RECORDING FIELD, H, with guest Pauline Oliveros, was released by the Deep Listening label in 2003. As a composer of concert music, Dan has completed commissions (most of which include him as a performer) for the American Composers Forum (Hardanger fiddle and orchestra), the Society for New Music (electronic chamber ensemble), the Tarab Cello Ensemble (8 cellos), and the American Composers Orchestra, which premiered his piece Traps Relaxed, for strings, percussion and electric violin/laptop, at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in January 2005. He recently completed an hour-long multimedia piece for Trollstilt and So Percussion, Five (and-a-half) Gardens, which has been performed at the Whitney Museum, the Third-Practice Festival in Virginia, and elsewhere. In the fall of 2005 Dan and Perry Cook founded the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) for which he has composed several works, including a piece for tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, Trueman (on Hardanger fiddle) and So Percussion. Dan is currently working on a new piece for PLOrk and the American Composers Orchestra which will premiere at Zankel Hall in April 2008.