Dayton Hare is a composer and journalist. Born in Boulder, Colorado, he began his musical studies at age 11 with piano lessons. Currently pursuing a master's degree at Yale School of Music, he holds degrees with highest honors from the University of Michigan in Music Composition and English Language & Literature, with a minor in French, and received his high school diploma from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His primary composition teachers have been Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Roshanne Etezady, Bright Sheng, and Paul Schoenfeld. He has also participated in a variety of summer music festivals, including the Norfolk New Music Workshop, the Conservatoire américain de Fontainebleau, New Music on the Point, the Walden Creative Musicians Retreat, highSCORE, the European American Musical Alliance, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Additionally, he has worked as a journalist covering the arts. In 2018 he was the Managing Editor of the Michigan Daily, the only remaining daily print newspaper in Ann Arbor, where he previously worked as a Senior Arts Editor and Classical Music Columnist. He is the a2view newsletter editor at the Ann Arbor Observer, and continues to freelance, covering music and books.
Estuary– (2023) 9'orchestra Premiered 7 December 2023 Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT |
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Pressure System– (2023) 11'sinfonietta Premiered 30 June 2023 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, MD |
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Vanishing Point– (2019-2020) 7'orchestra Premiered 19 February 2020 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI |
butterfly effects– (2023) 8'string quartet Premiered 5 October 2023 Sprague Recital Hall, New Haven, CT |
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Fits and Starts– (2023) 6'violin, percussion quartet Premiered 9 February 2023 Sprague Recital Hall, New Haven, CT |
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I only ask– (2022) 7'violin, violin, cello, piano Premiered 25 July 2022 Chateau de Fontainebleau, Île-de-France |
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An object of some concern– (2021) 10'piano trio Premiered 2 July 2021 New Haven, CT (Virtual Event) |
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The Nature of Entropy– (2019) 45'percussion quartet Premiered 13 April 2019 Hankinson Recital Hall, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Isolation of sky at evening– (2018) 9'scordatura string quartet Premiered 28 April 2019 Kevreson Recital Hall, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Architecture of Silence– (2017) 10'violin, bassoon, percussion, piano Premiered 4 March 2018 Hankinson Recital Hall, Ann Arbor, MI |
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still life: desert rain– (2016) 5'string quartet Premiered 25 March 2017 Kevreson Recital Hall, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Seven Vignettes– (2015) 9'30''flute, two violins, viola, cello Premiered 9 August 2015 Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Lenox, MA |
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Monadnock– (2014) 4'saxophone ensemble Premiered 24 April 2015 New Winston Museum, Winston-Salem, NC |
A blue heron alights on the riverbank near dawn– (2023) 10'cello, piano Premiered 9 March 2023 Sprague Hall, New Haven, CT |
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A light dusting of snow– (2023) 10'marimba, vibraphone Premiered 29 March 2023 Illinois State University, Normal, IL |
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First light, a bird is singing– (2019) 5'viola Premiered 14 August 2019 Chiesa di Santa Maria di Canepanova, Pavia, Italy |
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Sometimes, the rain– (2018) 5'30''violin, piano Premiered 17 June 2018 Salisbury Congregational Church, Salisbury, VT |
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Prelude, Fugue, and Lamento– (2015) 9'cello Premiered 2 April 2016 Britton Recital Hall, Ann Arbor, MI |
Na Fataí Bána– (2020) 4'tenor voice Premiered 14 July 2021 Château de Fontainebleau, Île-de-France |
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how the sky looked– (2017) 5'baritone voice, violin, cello, oboe Premiered 15 March 2017 Stamps Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Upon All– (2014) 20'mezzo-soprano, tenor, piano Premiered 24 January 2015 Watson Recital Hall, Winston-Salem, NC |
Dayton’s writing includes a variety of journalism, music and literary criticism, and short nonfiction. His works have appeared in The Michigan Daily and PULP: Arts Around Ann Arbor. His honors English thesis was on the subject of the Algerian War in the late works of Samuel Beckett, which won The John Wagner/Ralph Williams Award for Outstanding Thesis.
