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Michael Daugherty
12+ albums
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GRAMMY® award-winning composer Michael Daugherty is one of the most commissioned, performed, and recorded composers on the American concert music scene today. Daugherty first came to international attention when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman, performed his Metropolis Symphony at Carnegie Hall in 1994. Since that time, Daugherty’s music has entered the orchestral, band and chamber music repertory and made him, according to the League of American Orchestras, one of the ten most performed American 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. Michael Daugherty was born into a musical family on April 28, 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His father Willis Daugherty (1929-2011) was a jazz and country and western drummer, his mother Evelyn Daugherty (1927–1974) was an amateur singer, and his grandmother Josephine Daugherty (1907–1991) was a pianist for silent film. Daugherty’s four younger brothers are all professional musicians: Pat Daugherty (b. 1956), Tim Daugherty (b. 1958), Matt Daugherty (b. 1960), and Tom Daugherty (b. 1961). The centerpieces of the modest Daugherty home, located at 1547 5th Avenue S.E. in Cedar Rapids, were a player piano, television, and record player. At the age of 8, Daugherty taught himself how to play piano by pumping the pedals of the player piano and watching how pia
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Michael Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony & Deus ex Machina
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Composer's Collection: Michael Daugherty
Michael Daugherty: Harp of Ages
Daugherty: Ufo / Motown Metal / Niagara Falls / Desi / Red Cape Tango
DAUGHERTY: Philadelphia Stories / UFO
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Daugherty: Dreamachine, Trail of Tears & Reflections on the Mississippi
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Michael Daugherty: Dreamachine, Trail of Tears & Reflections on the Mississippi
Raise The Roof
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Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle
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Michael Daugherty: Mount Rushmore, Radio City & The Gospel According to Sister Aimee
Metropolis Symphony
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Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle (Live)