Multiple GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) and music director laureate of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has guest conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in America, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America. As music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American ensemble.

She has a discography of over 125 titles, and is a leading recording artist for Naxos. Her GRAMMY-winning Naxos recordings include Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua (8.559885–86) and John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (8.559331), both with the BPO, and Kenneth Fuchs’ Spiritualist with the London Symphony Orchestra (8.559824).

Falletta is a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as a member of the National Council on the Arts, is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards and was named Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year 2019 and one of the 50 great conductors of all time by Gramophone magazine.

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“Buffalo Phil: Premieres Without Pain” courtesy of American Record Guide

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Daron Hagen’s widely ranging activities are evidence of his lifelong passion as an artist-citizen for sharing the dividends of living an examined life. His works’ impeccable craftsmanship and heartfelt, emotional accessibility inspired Opera News to declare, ‘to say that he is a remarkable musician is to underrate him. Daron is music.’

Composer of 14 operas and three internationally laurelled 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, The Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Albany Symphony, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra), 14 concertos, chamber music and over 300 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.

He has led music festivals and non-profit foundations and taught at schools from Bard to Curtis, the Chicago College of Performing Arts to the Princeton Atelier. A Lifetime Member of the Corporation of Yaddo, he has served as a panellist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Copland House, Composers Recordings, Incorporated (CRI), Joy in Singing, National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Opera America, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, ASCAP, received two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Friedheim Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio residencies, the Bogliasco residency, and the Barlow Endowment, Bearns, and Nissim prizes.

He attended Juilliard and Curtis. Widely recorded, his music is published by Peermusic Classical. Represented by Encompass Arts, he lives in Rhinebeck, New York with his wife Gilda Lyons and their sons.

www.daronhagen.com