The CYBERSING 2008 Art Song Performance Competition has opened, and features a newly-commissioned 'required song' by American composer Larry Alan Smith. Download entry forms, rules, and the required song by clicking here.

Congratulations to ASCAP / LLF Artsong Composition Contest prizewinners Zachary Wadsworth, Allen McCullough, Ryan Thomas Gee, and Isaac Schankler. Judges Susan Botti, William Rhoads, Su Lian Tan, and Scott Dunn join to thank the many fine composers nationwide who competed. Learn more about the prizewinners by clicking here.

DARON HAGEN
Daron Hagen established his national reputation in the early eighties with performances by the New York Philhamonic and Philadelphia Orchestra; international recognition and acclaim followed with the première of his first major opera, Shining Brow (1992). The composer of five operas, numerous chamber works, orchestral works, and over two hundred published art songs and cycles, his catalogue has grown dramatically over the past twenty years as major orchestras, ensembles and soloists have steadily commissioned, performed, and recorded new works.  more>>>