It is not easy to describe Gary S. Fagin. Is the appropriate word conductor, composer, orchestrator or teacher? The answer is yes — all of the above.
He was a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and was twice chosen for the Conducting Seminar at Tanglewood. He has conducted outstanding symphony orchestras across this country and around the world.
He studied composition with George Crumb and George Rochburg at the University of Pennsylvania and composed Charlotte: Life? or Theater?, a music theater work based on the life of artist Charlotte Salomon, which received its world premiere to critical acclaim at the prince Music Theater in Philadelphia in March, 2001.
For four seasons Mr. Fagin's arrangements were broadcast weekly on Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion". He has orchestrated music for the Boston Pops, Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, Sandy Duncan, Tom Chapin and for recordings by Rob Fisher and the Coffee Club Orchestra and the Manhattan Rhythm Kings.
He has taught at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hofstra, Yale, Juilliard, The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and New York University.
In a word — he has it all.
"...the musicians, under the baton of Gary Fagin, played Tchaikovsky's score with sparkling clarity." --New Jersey Star-Ledger
"With conductor Gary Fagin, ...the confessional drama of Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony was made fully manifest in a gripping, expertly paced and darkly eloquent performance." --Chicago Tribune
"[Purcell's] celestial score, played and sung superbly by chorus and orchestra conducted by Gary Fagin...is pure enchantment." --Time Magazine
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