Daria Semegen (Bamberg, June 27, 1946)
Semegen Daria was born in Germany to parents in Ukraine and arrives in America at the age of seven years. In 1965, a student at the Eastman School of Music, composed "Six Plus", a piece for traditional instruments and band influenced by the musique concrete. He continued his musical initiation at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University, during the years he has an opportunity to deepen the theory and technique of composition with more artists: Bulent Arel, Alexander Goehr Samuel H. Adler, Robert Gauldin, Bunill Phillips, Witold Lutoslmki, Biilent Arel, Vladimir Ussachevsky. Between 1968 and '69, he moved in Poland, where he meets a new teacher, Witold Lutoslawski. Although in the 70s the Buchla 200 series is one of his favorite instruments, also composes acoustic pieces like "auatres des Jeux" (1970). In 1971 he studied electronics at Yale with Bülent Arel and thanks to this summer of the same year are allowed to work on his music under the guidance of Ussachevsky. Columbia was born "Electronic Composition No. 1" the famous song created entirely through electronic sources but the method of classical music note for note, phrase by phrase compositions come to life only to be mixed in various ways. ECNo.1 wins in 1975 the 'International Society for Contemporary Music prize. Between 1971 e 1975 Semegen insegna al Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center e lavora come assistente tecnico di Ussachevsky e Otto Luening. In seguito riceve un incarico alla State University di New York a Stony Brook dove ad oggi è direttore dell’ Electronic Music Studio e Associate professor of Composition, Theory, and Electronic Music.
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