Daniel Lentz (born March 10, 1942, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American composer [1] and artist.
Lentz achieved notability as a musician while a student at St. Vincent College[2] and at Brandeis University, when he was awarded a fellowship in composition at Tanglewood in the summer of 1966.
[4] In 1972, Lentz was the first American to win the Gaudeamus International Composers Award.
[4] Lentz then formed and led another music ensemble, the San Andreas Fault, which made several tours of the North America and Europe performing Missa Umbrarum (Mass of Shadows) (1973) amongst other works,[6] and released several recordings in Europe.
[8][9] His O-ke-wah (North American Eclipse), a composition for 12 voices, drum, bone rasps, and bells whose first version was written in 1974, is based on a traditional Seneca ritual dance for the dead.