Daniel Lentz

Daniel Lentz (died 2025) was an American composer and visual artist from Latrobe, Pennsylvania, who worked mostly in California. His music used voices, keyboards, electronics and live multi-track layering. In 1972 he became the first American to win the Gaudeamus International Composers Award, and he later made two albums with Harold Budd. Lentz studied at St. Vincent College and Brandeis, held a Tanglewood fellowship and a Fulbright in Sweden, then taught at UC Santa Barbara from 1968. He led the ensembles California Time Machine, San Andreas Fault and the Daniel Lentz Group.