Download Daron Aric Hagen has written works of an extremely broad stylistic

Daron Aric Hagen has written works of an extremely broad stylistic scope for established and
emerging soloists, ensembles, and organizations including pianists Gary Graffman and Joel Fan,
mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, baritones Nathan Gunn and Robert Orth, violinists Jaime Laredo
and Michael Ludwig, cellists Sharon Robinson and Sara Sant’Ambrogio, the Kings Singers,
Seattle Opera, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra,
American Composers Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Orchestra of
the Swan (UK), Opera Theater of Ireland, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Louvre,
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), and Royal Albert Hall.
Because of the broad audience appeal and practicality of his nine operas, new productions and
revivals occur frequently with international companies (Seattle Opera, Opera Ireland), regionals
(Sarasota Opera, Kentucky Opera, Madison Opera, Tulsa Opera, Skylight Music Theater),
independents (Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, West Edge Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera,
Opera Vista), colleges (UK Opera, Moores Opera Center, Roosevelt University, Butler Opera
Center, La Sierra College, USC), and high schools (Pittsburgh HS for the Performing Arts).
Hagen’s operas, symphonic works, choral, and chamber works are widely recorded on various
labels, including Shining Brow and Complete Piano Trios (Naxos), Double Concerto (Bridge),
Bandanna, Qualities of Light (Albany), Vera of Las Vegas (CRI / New World), Silent Night,
Songs, Night Again, Songs of Madness & Sorrow (Arsis), Violin Concerto (Belle Fleur), Koto
Concerto (MSR), Wedding Dances (Klavier).
He has recorded dozens of his over 250 published art songs as a collaborative pianist, conducted
the recordings of his operas, served as artistic director (Seasons Music Festival), and as chair of
composition studies (Wintergreen Summer Music Academy) for music festivals, served on
academic faculties (Bard College, the Curtis Institute, Princeton Atelier). He has served as
president of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, as a board member (CRI, Joy in Singing), as a
trustee (Douglas Moore Fund for American Opera), as composer in residence (Long Beach
Symphony, CA), artist in residence (UNLV, Roosevelt University, Baylor University, Miami
University), and is one of two Lifetime Members of the Corporation of Yaddo.
He made his debut as a stage director with Kentucky Opera (New York Stories) and will direct his
latest opera for the company (A Woman in Morocco) this spring. He has co-written the libretti for
two of his operas, and his articles are published regularly in the Huffington Post, and the
Indianapolis Star.
Hagen is the recipient of a 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters award that recognizes
"outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her
own voice." In 2012, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has also received
the Kennedy Center Friedheim Prize, the Camargo Residency, two Rockefeller Foundation
Bellagio Fellowships, Barlow, Bearns, ASCAP and BMI prizes, and the Seattle Opera Chairman's
Award.
Hagen is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Curtis Institute of Music and of
the Juilliard School. He lives in Upstate New York with his wife (composer / vocalist) Gilda
Lyons and their two sons, Atticus and Seamus.