Gelber, Dan

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Dan Gelber

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Dan Gelber is a newly retired 38-year veteran band director. Dan has a bachelors degree in music education and percussion from the University of North Texas in Denton. He has a masters degree in music theory and composition from East Texas A&M in Commerce. His performance career includes performances with various bands, ensembles, orchestras, choirs, jazz groups, and drum and bugle corps. As a composer and arranger, he has written for concert bands, percussion ensembles, choirs, jazz bands, and strings. He is a member of TMEA, TBA, and PAS. He currently resides in Flower Mound, TX, with his wife Stephanie.

Compositions

Caribbean Cruz - Percussion Quartet
Caribbean Holiday - Percussion Sextet
Drum Trio No. 1 - Percussion Trio
Drum Trio No. 2 - Percussion Trio
Drum Quartet No. 1 - Percussion Quartet
Mi Amigo - Percussion Octet
Time Changes - Percussion Ensemble (11)
Undercover Mambo - Percussion Quintet (7)
Undercover Soca - Percussion Ensemble (11)

Arrangements

2 Holiday Carols (Trad. - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
A Trio of Carols (Trad. - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Air (Bach - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
African Carol (Trad. - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Brasil (Barosso - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Can Can (Bizet - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Canon in D (Pachelbel - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Childrens March (Grainger - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Colonel Bogey (Alford - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (10)
Dance of the Sugar-Plumb Fairy (Tchaikovsky - Gelber) - Percussion Sextet
Dance of the Swans (Tchaikovsky - Gelber) - Percussion Sextet
Dance of the Tumblers (Tchaikovsky - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (13)
Dargason from Suite #2 (Holst - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Deus in Adjutorium (Pachelbel - Gelber) - Percussion Septet
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
The Entertainer (Joplin - Gelber) - Percussion Quintet
Farandole (Bizet - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (11)
Fugue in G Minor (Bach - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Greenbushes (Trad. - Gelber) - Percussion Nonet
Habenera/Carmen (Bizet - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (11)
Hallelujah Chorus (Handel - Gelber) - Percussion Nonet
Handel In the Strand (Grainger - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (13)
Hanukah Time (Trad. - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Horkstow Grange (Trad. - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (11)
Hornpipe from Water Music (Handel - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (11)
Hunter's Chorus (C.M von Weber - Gelber) - Percussion Sextet
In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Invention no. 8 (Bach - Gelber) - Percussion Sextet
Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (10)
Jingle Bells (Pierpont - Gelber) - Percussion Nonet
Jingle Bells Cha Cha Cha (Pierpont - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (10)
Mapleleaf Rag (Joplin - Gelber) - Percussion Quartet
March from Suite #1 (Holst - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (11)
March of the Safely Grazing Sheep (Bach - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (11)
Minuet (Bach - Gelber) - Percussion Quintet
Morning from Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila (Glinka - Gelber) - Percussion Nonet
Pavane for a Dead Princess (Ravel - Gelber) - Percussion Sextet
Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia (Delibes - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (11)
Procession of the Nobles (Rimsky-Korsakov - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Russian Sailors Dance (Gliere - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (13)
Slavonic Dance No. 1 (Dvorak - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Song of the Blacksmith from Suite #2 (Holst - Gelber) - Percussion Nonet (or 10)
Songs of the Civil War (Trad. - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (10)
Spinning Song (Ellmenreich - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (10)
Spoon River (Grainger - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (11)
Toreador March (Bizet - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Trepak from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Turkish March (Beethoven - Gelber) - Percussion Nonet
Twinkle Rhumba (Trad. - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
Ukrainian Bell Carol (Leontovych - Gelber) - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Waltz of the Flowers (Tchaikovsky - Gelber) - Percussion Octet
William Tell (Rossini - Gelber) - Percussion Nonet