Daniel Saleeb is a British composer born in 1985. He is a PhD student at the University of York researching the application of Conceptual Blending Theory in composition, supervised by Martin Suckling and Federico Reuben and supported by the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. His work explores the tension between computational and intuitive modes of composing, and he makes eclectic work across wide-ranging performance contexts, often working with extramusical media and drawing on disparate musical styles.
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) performed by viol consort colleague and cellist Mari MacGregor, himself, and the University of York Piano Ensemble.
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.