Daron Hagen

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Full Name	Daron Hagen
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Nov 4, 1961(1961-11-04)
Age	63
Country	United States
Birth City	Wisconsin
Horoscope	Scorpio

Daron Hagen Biography

Daron Hagen is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on November 4, 1961 in Wisconsin, United States. Contemporary classical and opera composer as well as educator and stage director who was awarded his 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. His works were praised for their emotional and psychological energy. He emphasized tonality by employing pitch class, serial and octatonic methods.

He was urged through He was encouraged by Leonard Bernstein to apply to Julliard after Bernstein heard his first orchestral work. to apply to Julliard following the time that Bernstein had heard his first orchestral composition.

Daron Aric Hagen (/ˈ h ɑː ɡ ən / HAH -gən; born November 4, 1961, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American composer, writer, conductor, pianist, educator, librettist, and stage director of contemporary classical music and opera.

Daron Hagen grew up in New Berlin, a suburb west of Milwaukee. Hagen was the youngest of the three sons of Gwen Hagen, a visual artist, writer and advertising executive who studied creative writing with Mari Sandoz and enjoyed a successful advertising career as creative director of Exclusively Yours Magazine and Earl Hagen (an attorney). Hagen began composing prolifically in 1974, when his older brother Kevin gave him a recording and score of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd. Two years later, at the age of fifteen, he conducted the premiere of his first orchestral work, a recording and score of which came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who enthusiastically urged Hagen to attend Juilliard to study with David Diamond. He studied piano with Adam Klescewski, and studied composition, piano, and conducting at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music (where his teachers included Duane Dishaw and Judy Kramer) while attending Brookfield Central High School.

He was the eldest from three children born to the visual writer, artist and marketing director Gwen Hagen, famed as Creative Director of Exclusively Yours magazine. He was married to composer, singer as well as visually-oriented artist Gilda Lyons. With her, they had two kids, Atticus as well as Seamus.

Daron Hagen Net Worth

Daron Hagen is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Daron Hagen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began writing at 13 years old when his brother gifted him a cassette from “Billy Budd” by He started composing at the age of 13 when his brother gave him a recording of “Billy Budd” by Benjamin Britten..

His musical “Shining Brow” premiered in 1992, and launched his career.

His operas embrace a particularly broad stylistic spectrum. In Shining Brow “Hagen’s baseline idiom,” writes Tom Strini, “seems to be modernist- expressionist, tonal but freely dissonant. He sets all sorts of influences, from barbershop to ticky-tick dance music against that idiom, to underscore character and crystallize the period (1903–’14).” In Vera of Las Vegas, Hagen, writes Robert Thicknesse, “blends idioms – neo-Gershwin, jazz, soft rock, Broadway – with soaring melodies that send the characters looping off in arias of self-revelation.” “Bandanna is neither fish nor fowl – as fierce as verismo but wrought with infinite care; a melding of church and cantina and Oxonian declamation,” writes Tim Page. Catherine Parsonage expands upon this assessment: “[it] is wholly convincing as a modern opera, ranging stylistically from the music theatre of Gershwin, Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, to traditional mariachi music and contemporary opera of Benjamin Britten. Hagen, who served his apprenticeship on Broadway, acknowledges that holistically the piece falls between opera and musical theatre. Hagen’s style encourages audiences to be actively involved in constructing their own meanings from the richness of the textual and musical cross-references in his work.” Hagen’s effective fusing of many styles into a coherent personal vision is recognized by a 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award that acknowledges the “outstanding artistic achievement [of] a composer who has arrived at his or her own voice.”

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Hagen’s debut opera Shining Brow premiered in 1993 to universally glowing reviews in the international press. When the Buffalo Philharmonic released the first recording on Naxos in 2009, David Patrick Sterns noted in The Philadelphia Inquirer, “the ceaselessly inventive score hooks you early on, easily embracing a wide range of predominantly tonal modes of expression, from barbershop quartet to Der Rosenkavalier quotations. The music’s theatrical timing and naturalistic sense of language – so problematic in other contemporary operas – feels effortlessly right. Dramatically speaking, the portrayal of the great architect is so unflinching that Wright (played with many layers of irony by the excellent Robert Orth) borders on being too unsympathetic to carry this sizable, two-act opera. Particularly effective is the musical creepiness that sets in as Wright’s high-ego world grows refracted from reality.”.

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Hagen served in 2007 as composer in residence at the Music Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts and joined the artist faculty there in 2017 “in a multi-disciplinary position created for him that enables him to share his skills as a stage director, dramaturge, composer, and social activist with students from throughout the Roosevelt University community as they shadow him and collaborate in the development of a new Hagen opera each year.” He has served as the Franz Lehár Composer in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh (2007), twice as composer in residence for the Princeton University Atelier (1998, 2005); as artist in residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2000–2002); Sigma Chi-William P. Huffman Composer in Residence at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (1999–2000); artist in residence at Baylor University, Waco, Texas (1998–1999); on the musical studies faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music (1996–1998); as an associate professor at Bard College (1988–1997); as a visiting professor at the City College of New York (1997, 1993–1994); and as a lecturer in music at New York University (1988–1990).