Daron Aric Hagen (born November 4, 1961, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and opera. He studied composition at the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, and privately with Leonard Bernstein.
His first composition to attract wide attention was Prayer for Peace, premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1981. The New York Philharmonic commissioned Philharmonia for its 150th anniversary in 1990. Hagen's numerous commissions from major orchestras and performers between 1981 and 2005 included orchestral works, three symphonies, seven concertos (for Gary Graffman and Sara Sant'Ambrogio, among others), several massive works for chorus and orchestra, two dozen choral works, ballet scores, concert overtures, showpieces, two brass quintets, two piano trios, a string quartet, an oboe quintet, a duo for violin and cello, solo works for piano, organ, violin, viola, and cello, and seventeen published cycles of art songs. In 1990 Hagen began a creative collaboration with the Irish poet Paul Muldoon that resulted in four major operas: Shining Brow (1992), Vera of Las Vegas (1996), Bandanna (1998), and The Antient Concert (2005).
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