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Name
Daniel Hege
Role
Conductor
Albums
Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Education
Aspen Music Festival, University of Southern California, Bethel College
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Meet our Guest Conductor: Daniel Hege
Daniel Hege is an American orchestral conductor. He is the former music director of the former Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and currently the music director of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra. He also makes numerous guest appearances with orchestras and music festivals across the country.
Ronnie miller interviews maestro daniel hege of the syracuse symphony
Biography
Hege was born in Colorado and raised in Idaho to parents Carl and Anne, who he names as his role models. He attended the First Mennonite Church in Aberdeen, Idaho. He began piano lessons at the age of nine and realized at that age that music would be his ruling passion.
He has majors in history and music at Bethel College, graduating in 1987. His senior seminar paper was about how the composer Dmitri Shostakovich worked under the repressive Stalin regime in Russia in the mid-20th century. He went on to obtain a master's degree from the University of Utah in orchestral conducting, where he founded the University Chamber Orchestra. He studied at the University of Southern California with Daniel Lewis and at the Aspen Music Festival with Paul Vermel.
In 2004 Mr. Hege received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Le Moyne College.
He is active as a guest clinician and adjudicates various musical competitions nationally.
He is married to violinist Katarína Óladóttir Hege, has three daughters and lives in Jamesville, NY.
Positions held
Music Director of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra (September 2010 – present)
Principal Guest Conductor of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra (September 2015 - present)
Music Director of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (April 1999 – April 2011)
Music Director of the Haddonfield Symphony, New Jersey (1997 - 2000) (Now known as Symphony in C)
Music Director of the Encore Chamber Orchestra in Chicago (1993 - 1997)
Music Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony (1993 - 1997) (was honored twice by the American Symphony Orchestra League for innovative programming while in this position)
Associate Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony (1995 - 1996)
Assistant, Associate and Resident Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony (1996–2001)
Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Young Musicians’ Foundation Debut Orchestra in Los Angeles (1990 - 1993)
Music Director of the Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony Orchestra (1993 - 2004)
Director of Instrumental Music at the Orange County High School of the Arts (1991 - 1993)
Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Symphony (1991 - 1993)
Guest conductor roles
Maestro Hege has performed or will perform as guest conductor for the following orchestras and festivals:
Akron Symphony Orchestra
Albany Symphony Orchestra
Amarillo Symphony Orchestra
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
Aspen Music Festival
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, New Zealand
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Bardi Symphony Orchestra of Leicester, England
Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra
Boise Philharmonic
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Canada
Charleston Symphony Orchestra
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Colorado Symphony Orchestra
Colorado Springs Philharmonic
Dayton Symphony Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Elgin Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Symphony
Florida Orchestra
Grand Rapids Symphony
Grand Teton Music Festival
Grant Park Music Festival
Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Illinois Symphony Orchestra
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kansas City Symphony
Lake Placid Sinfonietta
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Louisville Orchestra
Madison Symphony Orchestra
Memphis Symphony Orchestra
Music Academy of the West
Naples Philharmonic Orchestra
National Orchestral Institute
National Repertory Orchestra
North Carolina Symphony Orchestra
OK Mozart International Festival
Olympia Philharmonic
Omaha Symphony Orchestra
Oregon Symphony Orchestra
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Phoenix Symphony Orchestra
Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra
San Diego Symphony
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra
Santa Rosa Symphony
Sarasota Orchestra
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Skaneateles Music Festival
Spokane Symphony
St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Russia
Symphony Orchestra of Lima, Peru
Syracuse Opera
Texas Music Festival
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Recordings
Texas Music Festival, 2014, Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Blu-ray Disc Release
SSO Big Band Bash, 2006
Serenity Cedille, 2006, Label: Cedille
SSO Holiday Pops, 2002
SSO Classics Concert, 2000
Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th & 19th Centuries, 1999, Label: Cedille , with violinist Rachel Barton and the Encore Chamber Orchestra (which was nominated for a 1998 NPR Heritage Award)
Done Made My Vow, works of Adolphus Hailstork performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Morgan State Choir
The Gift, Label: Woodland Records, with oboist Brad Smith.
