David Hahn composes music for concert performance, dance, theater, spoken-word, television, and film scores. He creates diverse styles of music ranging from the experimental sounds of a quartet of electronically-processed guitars played by himself to chamber music featuring traditional instruments and voices. David Hahn was educated as a practicing musician and a music scholar at Brown University, The New England Conservatory of Music, The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Stanford University.

A former faculty member of the Early Music Department at The New England Conservatory, he received the doctorate in historical musicology from Stanford University in 1993.

As a professional guitarist, mandolinist and lutenist, David Hahn has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and Opera Orchestras, Boston Musica Viva, the Seattle Symphony, Musica Nel Chiostro in Florence, and the City of London Festival. He is a co-founder of the Boston Renaissance Ensemble which performed widely in the US and Europe and received the Noah Greenberg Award for "excellence in the performance of Early Music" from the American Musicological Society.

Mr. Hahn's music has been commissioned and performed by a number of established professional ensembles and soloists. He won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Soros Foundation, Seattle's Artist Trust and the Jack Straw Foundation. Aside from the US, his music has recently been performed in Canada, Chile, Turkey, Croatia, France, Germany and Cyprus.

Also visit Brown's Online Alumni Magazine for an interview with David Hahn