Dan Trueman is a composer, fiddle player, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer. He plays the violin and the Norwegian

Hardanger fiddle A hardanger fiddle () is a traditional stringed instrument considered the national instrument of Norway. In modern designs, this type of fiddle is very similar to the violin, though with eight or nine strings (rather than four as on a standard v ...

. Trueman studied physics at

Carleton College Carleton College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1866, the main campus is between Northfield and the approximately Carleton ...

in Northfield,

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, composition and theory at the

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...

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and composition at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. He taught composition at Columbia, Colgate, and since 2002, at

Princeton Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the Unit ...

. As a performer, Trueman has played at both contemporary and folk music festivals, among them

Bang on a Can Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted contemporary classical music organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon. Called "the c ...

and Den Norske Folkemusikkveka. Trueman has written for his own ensembles, Interface (which also includes Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn) and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (also known as PLOrk, which he co-founded with Perry Cook), as well as the Brentano, Daedalus, Cassatt and Amernet string quartets, Non Sequitur,

So Percussion Sō Percussion is a Grammy winning American percussion quartet formed in 1999 and based in New York City. Composed of Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Eric Cha-Beach, the group is well known for recording and touring internationa ...

and others. He has received awards from the Guggenheim (2006) and MacArthur Foundations (2008 Digital Media and Learning Award).

Discography

*''Trollstilt'', Trollstilt, Azalea City Records, 2000 *''./swank'', interface, c74 Records, 2001 *''Machine Language'', Bridge Records, 2004 *''Five (and-a-half) Gardens'',

and Trollstilt, New Amsterdam Records, 2008 *''Unpacking the Trailer'', QQQ, New Amsterdam Records, 2009 *''CrissCross (with

Brittany Haas Brittany Caroline Haas (born 1987) is an American fiddle player, who also sings and plays the banjo. She is a member of the Boston-based alternative bluegrass band Crooked Still, which is currently on hiatus. She was a regular performer on Live ...

)'', Many Arrows Music, 2012 *''Neither Anvil Nor Pulley'',

, Cantaloupe Music, 2013 *''Laghdú (with

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (born 28 August 1979) is a fiddler, born in Dublin, Ireland, who attended Trinity College Dublin, becoming a scholar in Theoretical Physics (1999) and earning a first-class BA degree (as the top student of his class) in 2001. He is known for d ...

)'', IrishMusic.net Records, 2014

External links

* *http://qqqmusic.org *http://trollstilt.org *http://www.arts.rpi.edu/crb/interface/ *http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/

Notes

Living people Carleton College alumni University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni Princeton University alumni Columbia University faculty Colgate University faculty Princeton University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-composer-20thC-stub