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    Michael Daugherty
    Michael Daugherty

    Michael Daugherty is one of the most commissioned, recorded and according to the League of American Orchestras, one of the ten most performed living American composers. Born in 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Daugherty is the son of a dance-band drummer and the oldest of five brothers, all professional musicians. Daugherty joined the School of Music at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1991, where he is Professor of Composition and a mentor to many of today’s most talented young composers. In 2011, the Nashville Symphony’s Naxos recording of Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony and Deus ex Machina was honored with three GRAMMY® Awards, including Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Daugherty’s music is published by Peermusic Classical, Boosey and Hawkes, and Michael Daugherty Music. His GRAMMY® award winning recordings can be heard on Albany, Argo, Delos, Equilibrium, Klavier, Naxos and Nonesuch labels.

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