Daniel Saleeb is a British composer, born in 1985, making work at the crossroads of computer science, video games, the church, the internet, film, theatre and opera. He employs electronic and acoustic media in his work, and writes for expert and non-expert performers.
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 (2023) written for himself, composer colleague Fintan O’Hare, and the University of York Piano Ensemble.
Having developed a deep interest in computer science during lockdown, Daniel is now undertaking a PhD researching algorithmic composition and analogy-making at the University of York, supervised by Martin Suckling and Federico Reuben, funded by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities. In 2023, he was the recipient of the Terry Holmes Composer Performer Award, with Ben Maloney.
Daniel previously studied with: Grayston Ives, Thomas Hyde, Kenneth Hesketh, and Julian Phillips, and he now teaches theory, musicianship and composition at Sheffield Music Academy. His music can be found here on this website, under works.