BIO

Dr. Daniel Fulmer, Composer, EWC Professor of Music

Daniel Fulmer’s compositional education began at North Carolina School of the Arts and continued at Stetson University where he received a Bachelor of Music Theory and also studied percussion for two years with Will Hudgins, percussionist with the Boston Symphony. He went on to complete an MM in Composition at Florida State University and a DMA from the University of Miami. His doctoral research, Composition as a Generative Process, is included in the widely used textbook Psychological Foundations of Musical Behavior by Boyle and Radocy.

Fulmer is a composer of orchestral and choral works with many perfomances including Symphony No. 4 (In Memory of Loved Ones Who Have Passed Away), which premiered in Carnegie Hall in New York, April 2002, and was read by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra as part of the 2004 Fresh Ink Florida Composers Symposium. Other past works that Fulmer has received premiers of include Prophecy: The Opening of the Seventh Seal, for large orchestra; Lamentum, Music of Mourning and Consolation, scored for soprano, chorus and chamber orchestra; and March to Babylon commissioned through James Croft at the FSU School of Music and performed by the Lincoln High School Band. Additionally, in 2015 the FSU University Orchestra and Trio Bel Canto (alto saxolphone, tenor saxophone, and piano) premiered the orchestral version of Fulmer’s Concertante Borealis—a musical response to experiencing the Aurora Borealis while living in North Dakota in the late 1990s.

Fulmer has written many works for the voice, both in chamber and orchestra genres. The song cycle Canticum Canticorum (The Song of Soloman) scored for soprano, alto saxophone, piano, and cello was premiered in March 2015 at Edward Waters College and performed again in February 2016 when Fulmer was invited as a guest composer at Jacksonville University. Serafini, a Jacksonville-based trio (soprano, trumpet, and piano) recently recorded two of his songs: O Quam Gloriosum and Visions of Heaven. Additional performances include Symphony No. 2 for soprano and orchestra, recorded on a compact disk release with the Florida Youth Orchestra, and Set Me as a Seal for soprano and chamber orchestra.

Recent compositions include Symphony No. 5, completed in May 2016, and a current oratorio in progress. Fulmer is currently professor of music at Edward Waters College of Jacksonville.