Daniel Strong Godfrey (b. 1949) is Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University, where he recently served an eight-year appointment as Chair of Music. Prior to his appointment at Northeastern, he was Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music. He has also served as guest faculty at the Eastman School of Music and the Indiana University School of Music. Godfrey has earned awards and commissions from the J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, among many others. He is founder and co-director of the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music (on the Maine coast) and is co-author of Music Since 1945, published by Schirmer Books. Godfrey’s works can be heard on the Albany, Bridge, New World, GM, Innova, Klavier, Koch, Mark and New Focus recording labels. His music is available through publishers Carl Fischer, G. Schirmer, and Opus Imprints.