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Jake Heggie Composer
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Born
March 31, 1961
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Country
United States of America
Jake Heggie is the composer of the operas Dead Man Walking, Moby-Dick, It’s a Wonderful Life, Great Scott, Three Decembers, Out of Darkness: Two Rain, and the choral opera, and The Radio Hour, among others. He has also composed nearly 300 songs as well as chamber, choral, and orchestral works.
The operas most created with writers Terrence McNally or Gene Scheer have been produced on five continents. Moby-Dick (Scheer) was telecast throughout the United States as part of the Great Performances 40th season and released on DVD (EuroArts). Dead Man Walking (McNally) has received 60 international productions and has been recorded twice. Three Decembers has received nearly two dozen international productions.
The composer was awarded the Eddie Medora King prize from the University of Texis Austin Butler School of Music and the Champion Award from the San Francisco Gay Men Chorus.
A Guggenheim Fellow, Heggie has served as a mentor for the Washington National Opera American Opera Initiative and is a frequent guest artist at universities, conservatories, and festivals throughout the United States and Canada.
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