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  Daron Hagen Composer :: Contact
Daron Hagen's music is published by several music publishers.
Sending your query to the address above will ensure that your request is forwarded promptly to the correct publisher.
Your message will be forwarded promptly by the webmaster to Daron Hagen.
www.daronhagen.com /new/contact.html   (66 words)

  
  Yaddo Elects Librarian Susan Brynteson and Composer Daron Hagen Lifetime Members   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Daron Hagen, the renowned composer, were elected to the honor of lifetime membership in the Corporation.
Daron Hagen, the noted contemporary composer, has been a tireless advocate for Yaddo as well, and, as curator of the Yaddo/Copland Concerts, he has revivified a tradition of supporting contemporary American music that dates back to
Daron Hagen was a guest artist at Yaddo for the first time in 1984, and has been a member since 1994.
www.yaddo.org /yaddo/BryntesonHagen.shtml   (671 words)

  
  Carl Fischer Music Publishing - Concert Dept
Hagen's numerous song cycles and operatic works are especially beloved by singers and critics, who write that he is "born to write operas," (Chicago Tribune) and is possessed of "a sophisticated, wide-ranging musical mind" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinal).
From 1996 to 1998 Hagen served on the faculty of the Curtis Institute.
Daron Hagen was born in Milwaukee on November 4, 1961.
www.carlfischer.com /Fischer/hagenbio.html   (501 words)

  
 The Harbinger. Modern Composers. February 22, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although composer Daron Hagen has created an extensive and varied catalog of works, including symphonies, concertos, operas ballets and many chamber works, when he was approached by Michael Haithcock about the possibility of doing an album of works for wind ensemble, he didn't have enough works for winds to fill an entire album.
The story of the beginning of Hagen's career is one to give hope to stage mothers (and fathers) everywhere: At the age of fifteen Hagen was allowed to conduct the premiere of his first composition for orchestra, in Milwaukee.
Hagen's mother "sent a score and tape of the piece to Leonard Bernstein, along with a letter asking for the maestro's guidance." Bernstein replied with enthusiastic encouragement, and that favorable reaction by the Maestro was partly responsible for Hagon's later admittance to the Curtis Institute of Music, where his career blossomed.
www.theharbinger.org /xviii/000222/forbus.html   (441 words)

  
 Daron Hagen Information
Daron Aric Hagen (born November 4, 1961, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and opera.
The youngest of the three sons of Gwen Hagen (an artist and advertising executive) and Earl Hagen (an attorney), Hagen began composing prolifically in 1974, when his older brother gave him a recording and score of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd.
In 2004 Hagen was named President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in New York City, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging the performance and creation of art song.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Daron_Hagen   (781 words)

  
 Composer Hagen says his style has stayed the course   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hagen's voice may have been set early on, but that doesn't mean he is limited as a composer.
Daron Hagen is the latest in a long line of high-profile composers who have visited the University of Pittsburgh over the years as Lehar composers-in-residence.
Hagen is one of a few composers who have been able to support themselves without a university position.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/07049/762472-42.stm   (1084 words)

  
 Daron Hagen - NetNewMusic/Sequenza21 New Music Wiki
His parents, Gwen Hagen (an artist and successful advertising executive) and Earl Hagen (an attorney) raised their children (Kevin, Britt, and Daron) in a Frank Lloyd Wright-style cedar house on an enormous wooded lot in what was then countryside west of Milwaukee.
Hagen's music drew attention as early as 1981, when at the age of twenty, his Prayer for Peace was premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra—the first Curtis-student work that the orchestra had premiered since its introduction fifty years earlier of music by another Curtis student, Samuel Barber.
Daron is a Member of the Corporation of Yaddo, where he has composed many of his works; he also serves on the boards of CRI and the Joy in Singing Foundation.
netnewmusic.net /wiki/index.php?title=Daron_Hagen   (794 words)

  
 American Composers Forum
The composer of four major operas (all of which are currently in revival internationally), as well as orchestral, chamber, choral, and lyric compositions, Daron Hagen (b.
Over forty Hagen compositions have appeared on compact disc on the Albany, Arabesque, Arsis, CRI, Klavier, and Sierra labels, most recently the complete, two-disc recording of the opera Bandanna under the composer's baton for Albany Records.
Hagen attended the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Juilliard School, and the Curtis Institute of Music.
www.composersforum.org /member_profile.cfm?oid=5858   (266 words)

  
 Yaddo Elects Librarian Susan Brynteson and Composer Daron Hagen Lifetime Members   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Daron Hagen, the renowned composer, were elected to the honor of lifetime membership in the Corporation.
Daron Hagen, the noted contemporary composer, has been a tireless advocate for Yaddo as well, and, as curator of the Yaddo/Copland Concerts, he has revivified a tradition of supporting contemporary American music that dates back to
Daron Hagen was a guest artist at Yaddo for the first time in 1984, and has been a member since 1994.
yaddo.org /yaddo/BryntesonHagen.shtml   (671 words)

  
 ARSIS: Catalog: CD106
Hagen’s sophisticated songs remind me somewhat of the AIDS Quilt Songbook and deserve to be heard just as often.
Daron Hagen is the finest American composer of vocal music in his generation and it has been my pleasure to know him these last eight years.
Born in Wisconsin in 1961, Hagen has since become one of the best-known of younger American composers, a reputation that was being built while his musical studies (at Curtis, and at the Juilliard School) were not yet finished.
www.arsisaudio.com /cd106.html   (575 words)

  
 Daron Hagen's Muldoon Songs - NewMusicJukebox.org   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hagen freeze-framed them all with the lightest of compositional brush strokes.
"Hagen, in his thirties, is emerging as one of the most significant vocal composers of his generation.
Hagen's pianistic writing is inventive and reminiscent of the great Romanticist composers, ranging from Schubert to Strauss.
www.newmusicjukebox.org /composers/c_composition.asp?ComposerID=17800&ActorID=33240&CompositionID=66674   (1129 words)

  
 ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s contribution consisted of two semi-staged performances of Daron Hagen’s Shining Brow, an opera premiered in 1993 in Madison, Wisconsin, the home state of both Wright and the composer.
Hagen’s music can be described as expressive, lyrical, and well-crafted, cleverly using an eclectic array of instrumental effects.
The power of Hagen’s music overcomes frequent indulgences in the words and manages to transcend what otherwise would be the material of a local tabloid scandal.
www.concertonet.com /scripts/review.php?ID_review=3674   (948 words)

  
 ASCAP Audio Portrait: Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon
Vera Of Las Vegas - Composer Daron Hagen and Librettist Paul Muldoon's opera mixes high art and low culture.
Album-Length Show - Daron Hagen says he and Paul Muldoon grew up listening to '70s concept albums - and it rubbed off.
Vera's Song - Daron Hagen says the climax of the opera is one of his favorite arias - AND a '70s folk-rock ballad.
www.ascap.com /audioportraits/hagen_muldoon.html   (160 words)

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