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Daniel Bernard Roumain (aka DBR) is one of the few composers to have danced alongside Bill T. Jones, played with Philip Glass, and jammed with Cassandra Wilson. DBR's hip-hop/classical style of music has been embraced by orchestras, chamber ensembles, and mainstream pop, rock, and jazz musicians worldwide; he is quickly developing a new, diverse audience for his music. DBR recently composed and performed orchestral arrangements with Grammy-Award winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson and her band, while conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra to a sold out house. In February 2004, over 2000 people attended the premiere of Rockestra: A Hip-Hop Music and Dance Party, at Arizona State University's Gammage Auditorium, featuring DJ Radar and sponsored by the American Express Beyond Broadway Series. During the 2003-04 season, both the Dallas and Memphis Symphony Orchestras performed DBR's Hip-Hop Essay for Orchestra, while the St. Louis Symphony performed his Haitian Essay for Orchestra. The San Antonio Symphony kicked off it's 2002-03 season with Human Songs and Stories For Orchestra, Narrator, and the People, commissioned by Texas Public Radio, and featuring basketball star David Robinson as narrator. As Assistant Composer-in-Residence at the Orchestra of St. Luke's, DBR composed two commissioned works for the chamber ensemble in Fast-Black-Dance-Machine and String Quartet No. 3, Powell for Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Additonally, DBR serves as the Director/Founder of its Young Composers Development Program. As the first Music Director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, DBR composed works for and was a featured performer during the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) performances with Susan Sarandon, Cassandra Wilson, Vernon Reid, and DJ Spooky. DBR has performed in New York City at Carnegie Hall, Weil Recital Hall, Lincoln Center's Summer Festival, Merkin Hall, Aaron Davis Hall, Joe's Pub, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM Cafe, Miller Theatre, Sugar Shack, Exit Art, Roulette, The Kitchen, St. Mark's Church, Music at the Anthology, and the Cornelia Street Cafe. Roumain's ensemble, DBR"s Mission, regularly performs in the legendary East Village downtown district at the Bowery Poetry Club, steps away from CBGB's. DBR's performance at Merkin Hall was rated as the 3rd Best Classical Moment of 2003 by the New York Times and DBR was voted one of the Top 100 New Yorkers by NYC Resident Magazine that same year. Hear his latest CDs and interviews on www.dbrmusic.com. AWARDS
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