Dan Pinkston was born Dec. 1, 1972 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.  The son of Amercian missionaries, he returned to the United States to study music at Ouachita Baptist University.  Pinkston continued his composition study at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, TX, earning a Master of Music degree in 1997, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in 2000. 

        Dr. Pinkston is currently assistant professor of music theory and composition at Simpson College in Redding, CA. Previously, he taught as adjunct professor of music theory and composition at Dallas Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, teaching courses in 20th century theory, composition, guitar, and music technology.

         Among Pinkston's many compositions are a setting of the four New Testament canticles for choir and orchestra.  Entitled Canticles,  this piece includes the Nunc Dimittis, for which Pinkston won the 2000 American Choral Director's Association Brock Memorial Composition Contest.  The Nunc Dimittis is published by Warner Bros. Publications under the Lawson Gould Product Line.

       Other composition awards include the 1999 Austin ProChorus Composition Contest, the 2000 Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity Composer's Contest, and the 1998 American-Romanian Team for the Arts Composition Contest. Recent commissions include the Concerto for Clarinet for clarinetist Michael Thrasher, Victimae Paschali Laudes for Renaissance Consort of Ft. Worth, and the Delta Omicron Thor Johnson Commission for a work for clarinet and piano to be premiered at the 2003 Delta Omicron Convention. An ASCAP Standard Award was granted in 2001.

       Many of Pinkston's woodwind hymn arrangements have been published, including Three Hymns for Clarinet and Piano (Morning Star Music Publishers), Nothing but the Blood of Jesus (Light of the World Music), and He Leadeth Me (Light of the World Music). 

        Pinkston and his wife, Lori, live in Redding, California...

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