Creative polymath Daron Hagen’s commitment to sharing the creative dividends of living an examined life, combined with his work’s impeccable craftsmanship, social conscience, and emotional accessibility inspired Opera News to declare, “Daron is music.” A composer whose works are performed worldwide, his enormous creative output includes 14 operas and two internationally-laureled composer-directed opera films, 6 symphonies (major works for ASCAP’s 75th Anniversary, the New York Philharmonic’s 150th, the Curtis Institute’s 75th, Yaddo’s 100th, and the Seattle Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Albany Symphony, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, among others), 14 concertos, over 50 chamber works, dozens of choral works, and over 350 widely-performed art songs. He is also a stage and auteur film director, librettist, conductor, collaborative pianist, and the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Duet With the Past. A Lifetime Member of the Corporation of Yaddo, he has been a panelist for the NEA, Copland House, CRI, Joy in Singing, NATS, Douglas Moore Fund, Opera America, VCCA, ASCAP, received two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Friedheim Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, two Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residencies, and the Barlow Endowment, Bearns, and ASCAP-Nissim Prizes. A graduate of Curtis and Juilliard, he has helmed music festivals and non-profit foundations and served on the composition faculties of schools from Bard to Curtis, the Chicago College of Performing Arts to the Princeton Atelier. His music is widely recorded and published by Peermusic Classical. Represented by Encompass Arts, he lives in Rhinebeck, NY with his wife Gilda Lyons and their sons.
College
The Juilliard School
College
The Curtis Institute of Music
Married To
Gilda Lyons
Studied composition and conducting privately with Leonard Bernstein.
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