2026-2027

Torch Songs for a Pyromaniac (on words by Buck Ross), The Heart Asks (three songs on words of Emily Dickinson), and two groups of songs on words by Reg Huston: Things That Will Remain and One Wish, will be premiered this season, as well as the delayed premieres of the song cycle Mata Hari Songs and Four Shakespeare Fragments for Three Players (for voice, piano and cello).

Consolation for Orchestra (commissioned by the Steven Gerber Foundation) will be premiered by the Frost Symphony Orchestra at Florida State University, conducted by Gerard Schwarz. The world premiere of Envoi for band (commissioned in honor of Joseph Schwantner by a consortium of college bands) takes place in June, performed by the Royal Northern College of Music band conducted by Mark Heron in Manchester, England.

Daron’s new book, Exploring Operafilm: Making the Bardo Trilogy, is published in April by McFarland and Company. The University of Wisconsin Mills Music Library and the Wisconsin Music Archives announced in March that they have acquired Daron’s personal papers, sketches, and archive.