Boosey & Hawkes Signs Michael Daugherty
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Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. has announced the signing of an exclusive agreement to publish the music of American composer Michael Daugherty. The agreement, effective July 1, 2005, covers all of Daugherty’s future compositions plus nine existing works, among them Fire and Blood (2003) for violin and orchestra, Brooklyn Bridge (2005) for clarinet and symphonic band, and Time Machine (2003) for three conductors and orchestra. (A number of Daugherty’s earlier works, including Metropolis Symphony, Niagara Falls, and Dead Elvis, remain with Peermusic Classical, represented in Europe by Faber Music, London.)
“We look forward to being Michael’s creative partner in the years to come,” said Jennifer Bilfield, President of Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. “The unusual clarity and forthright quality of his music resonates with performers and listeners alike.”
Daugherty remarked, “I feel a strong kinship with the diverse musical aesthetics represented by the Boosey and Hawkes catalog and greatly admire the music of its composers. I am pleased to have the opportunity to collaborate with one of the world’s most important and innovative music publishers.”
Born in 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Daugherty first came to international attention in the 1990s with a series of works inspired by 20th-century pop culture. His achievements have been recognized by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Stoeger Prize), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has been composer-in-residence with the Detroit and Colorado Symphony Orchestras, and, in 2005, the American Symphony Orchestra League recognized him as one of America’s ten most performed living composers. Daugherty studied composition at North Texas State University, IRCAM, and Yale University, where his teachers included Jacob Druckman, Roger Reynolds, and Earle Brown. He is now Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Forthcoming commissions include works for the Bournemouth Symphony conducted by Marin Alsop, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a consortium of the Charlotte, Nashville, New Jersey, Rochester, and Syracuse Symphony Orchestras, guitarist Manuel Barrueco, the Verdehr Trio, and the College Band Directors National Association.