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Recordings of his works are available on the Albany Records label, and his music is published by American Concert Editions. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the past several years his creative voice has garnered much attention, with performances of his works throughout the United States and abroad. American presenters include Carnegie Hall, the Eastman School of Music, Boston Conservatory, the San Francisco New Music Festival, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music. \u003cem\u003eet al\u003c\/em\u003e. His instrumental and chamber compositions have also been performed at such international venues as the Moscow Conservatory, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Conseratorio à rayonnement régional de Paris, the Frankfurter KuenstlerKlub, the Conservatorio di Milano, and in Cairo, Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally trained as a pianist, Dangerfield is also active as a performer and conductor throughout the United States. He has conducted various concerts (chamber and orchestral) of music, both new and from the canon in New York, Vienna, Prague, and others, and has served on the faculty of West Virginia University, the University of Florida, and McNeese State University, and Coe College. 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