Timothy Hagen’s talent as a triple threat—flutist, composer, and educator—is making waves across America and around the world. He was recently appointed to fill the Dr. Sidlee & Mary Jean Leeper Flute Chair of the Missouri Symphony. He has also been a semifinalist in multiple international competitions, including the USA’s Heida Hermanns International Woodwind Competition and Serbia’s International Jeunesses Musicales Competition—where he was the only American invited to compete. Mr. Hagen was the first wind musician to be named a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar, and his other accolades include awards from the American Composers Forum, Pasadena Showcase House Instrumental Competition, and Leni Fé Bland Foundation.

 

Mr. Hagen’s professional work is as wide-ranging as his awards. He is Principal Flute of the American Youth Symphony as well as a founding member of the Tonoi Ensemble. He has been invited to perform orchestral and chamber music at the Norfolk, Aspen, Hot Springs, and Las Vegas Music Festivals, and his solo appearances have taken him from New York’s Lincoln Center and 92^nd Street Y to Los Angeles’ Zipper Hall.

 

Not content to follow the path of today’s conventional classical musician, Mr. Hagen devotes a great deal of energy to composing. He received a Meet the Composer grant for his role as Composer-in-Residence for the Tonoi Ensemble during the 2007-2008 season. His works have been greeted with enthusiasm by many professional flutists.

 

In addition to Mr. Hagen’s record of excellence as a performer and composer, he has been cited as a teacher of “tremendous heart, generosity and brilliance” by Jessica Balboni, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s former Director of Educational Initiatives. He is a member of the Teaching Artist faculties of the LA Philharmonic, Education Through Music—Los Angeles, and the Arts Council for Long Beach and maintains a private flute studio whose members have repeatedly won local and state competitions. 

 

Mr. Hagen holds degrees in flute performance from the University of Southern California and the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the coveted Professional Studies Certificate from the Colburn Conservatory of Music. He has studied flute with luminaries James Walker, Philip Dunigan, Renée Siebert, and Tadeu Coelho, and counterpoint and orchestration with renowned composer Kenneth Frazelle. Hagen happily resides in sunny Los Angeles with his cat Josephine.

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