David Hahn
David Hahn (Philadelphia, 1956) has composed over one hundred diverse
pieces of music, many of which have been commissioned and performed
by established professional ensembles and soloists. These include
Concerto Alla Barocco commissioned by the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
who performed it with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Four Short Pieces
performed by guitarist Cem Duruöz in Carnegie Hall, Concerto Anatolia
premiered by the Antalya State Orchestra, Turkey, De Omnibus Apostolis
performed by the University of Washington Singers, W Is For Weasel
premiered by the Shank-Hagedorn Duo, and Kindergarten Word Ring for
octaphonic speaker system, performed at the Spectrum Press Electronic
Music Odyssey Concert Series. Mr. Hahn has also collaborated with artists
in film, theater, spoken word, and other media, such as in Zagreb
Everywhere, an experimental video, which was shown at the Rencontres
Internationales Festival in Paris and Berlin.
Educated at Brown University, the New England Conservatory of Music,
and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Mr. Hahn received
the doctorate in historical musicology at Stanford University in 1993. His
music career began as a performer on lute, guitar, and mandolin with such
groups as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony
and Opera Orchestras, Boston Musica Viva, the Seattle Symphony, Musica
Nel Chiostro in Florence, and the City of London Festival. He served on the
faculty at the New England Conservatory where he co-founded the Boston
Renaissance Ensemble which toured widely in the US and Europe.
Awards And Fellowships: Artists Project Award from the Seattle Mayorʼs
Office for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, ArtLink Collaborative Grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Soros Foundation, 1st Prize:
Classical Mandolin Society of America Composition Contest, Composer
Assistance Grant from the American Music Center, Meet The Composer
Grant, Puffin Foundation Grant, GAP Grant from Artists Trust, Graduate
Fellowship from the Stanford Humanities Center, Graduate Fellowship from
the Stanford University Music Department, Noah Greenberg Award from
the American Musicological Society.
