Daron Aric Hagen is one of America's most prominent, prolific, and respected mid-career composers. The creator of nine frequently-revived operas and music theater works, his operatic, orchestral, chamber, and song catalogues are performed around the world. Mr. Hagen's activities also include stage direction, conducting; and engagements as a collaborative pianist, educator, artistic director, writer, and librettist. Mr. Hagen has served frequently as conductor and collaborative pianist for recordings of his works. His music can be heard on the Albany, Arsis, Bridge, Clarion, Klavier, Naxos, and New World/CRI labels, among others. 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. He 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. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Curtis Institute of Music and of the Juilliard School, he has taught at Bard College, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Princeton Atelier, and fulfilled numerous composer-in-residencies around the U.S. Currently Chair of the Composition Program at the Wintergreen Summer Music Academy, he is a Lifetime Member of the Corporation of Yaddo, former President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of Lyric Fest, and a Trustee of the Douglas Moore Fund for American Opera.