Daniel Sonenberg (born 1970) is an American composer and performer. Sonenberg was born in

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

, New York in 1970, and moved to

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

in 2004. As a composer, he is best known for his opera '' The Summer King''. His work ''Baseball Songs'' won the

Robert Starer Robert Starer (8 January 1924 in Vienna – 22 April 2001 in Kingston, New York) was an Austrian-born American composer, pianist and educator. Robert Starer began studying the piano at age 4 and continued his studies at the Vienna State Academy ...

Competition Prize.Daniel Sonenberg
Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music, retrieved 5 May 2021. He composed ''First Light: A Fanfare for Maine'' for performance by the

Portland Symphony Orchestra The Portland Symphony Orchestra was established in 1923 in Portland, Maine as the Amateur Strand Symphony Orchestra. Started by a small group of musicians who had sent out invitations to join their organization to people in the area, they had their ...

at the Maine bicentennial celebrations. Sonenberg is a member of a rock band, Lovers of Fiction,Chris Busby (8 August 2013)
Lovers of Fiction
''The Bollard''. and has also released a solo album, ''Peaks Island Ferry''.Daniel Sonenberg

University of Southern Maine The University of Southern Maine (USM) is a public university with campuses in Portland, Gorham and Lewiston in the U.S. state of Maine. It is the southernmost of the University of Maine System. It was founded as two separate state universitie ...

, retrieved 6 May 2021. He is a professor at the

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