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Born in Florida, Heggie played piano from a young age and studied at the University of California after a few years of study in Paris. In 1998, his opera Dead Man Walking, premiered by San Francisco Opera, was received with great acclaim and has been revived around the world (including Ireland, Sweden, and Australia). His other operas include The End of an Affair, To Hell and Back, Three Decembers and Moby Dick, which premiered at Dallas Opera in April 2010. His dramatic scenes include At the Statue of Venus and For a Look or a Touch.
Heggie is also an accomplished composer of song repertoire and has written several song cycles for well-known singers, including Susan Graham, Bryn Terfel and Frederica von Stade. He continues to perform in recital with vocalists as well as give master classes and host discussions about his music. Heggie has lived in San Francisco since 1993.
–Christie Finn
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Songs
A Great Hope Fell
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
A Question of Light
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Gene Scheer
Africa
Jake Heggie
Maya Angelou
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
America
Jake Heggie
Maya Angelou
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
Ample Make This Bed
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: How Well I Knew the Light
Angels' Wings
Jake Heggie
Gene Scheer
Song Collection: Rise and Fall
Back You Go
Jake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
Song Collection: From 'The Book of Nightmares'
Barb'ry Allen
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Three Folk Songs
Before the Storm
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dorothy Parker
By The Spring, At Sunset
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Of Laughter and Farewell
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jake Heggie
Euclid
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
Facing Forward/Looking Back
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Raymond Carver
Jake Heggie
Fame
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri
From Emily's Garden
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
From 'The Book of Nightmares'
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
Glory
Jake Heggie
Julia Ward Howe
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
Goodnight
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri
He's Gone Away
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Three Folk Songs
Here and Gone
Song CollectionJake Heggie
A. E. Housman
Vachel Lindsay
Here, Where the Daisies Fit My Head
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: From Emily's Garden
How Well I Knew the Light
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
I Catch on Fire
Jake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
Song Collection: The Deepest Desire
I’m Nobody! Who are You?
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri
ICONIC LEGACIES: First Ladies at the Smithsonian
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Gene Scheer
If You Were Coming in the Fall
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
In a Restaurant
Jake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
Song Collection: From 'The Book of Nightmares'
In Lands I Never Saw
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: From Emily's Garden
In Praise of Songs That Die
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Here and Gone
In the Midst of Thousands
Jake Heggie
Frederick Douglass
Song Collection: These Strangers
It Makes No Difference Abroad
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: From Emily's Garden
Letter to President Lincoln from Annie Davis, 1864
Jake Heggie
Annie Davis
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
Love
Jake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
Song Collection: The Deepest Desire
More is Required
Jake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
Song Collection: The Deepest Desire
My Father's Eyes
Jake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
Song Collection: From 'The Book of Nightmares'
Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Not In a Silver Casket
Jake Heggie
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Of Laughter and Farewell
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Ophelia's Song
Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Primary Colors
Jake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
Song Collection: The Deepest Desire
Prologue: Once More - To Gloriana
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
Prologue: Ships That Pass in the Night
Jake Heggie
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
Rise and Fall
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Gene Scheer
Silence
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri
Some Times of Day
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Raymond Carver
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Songs to the Moon
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Spring
Jake Heggie
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
That I Did Always Love
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri
The Breaking Waves
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
The Deepest Desire
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
The Deepest Desire
Jake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
Song Collection: The Deepest Desire
The Factory Window Song
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Here and Gone
The Haughty Snail-King
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
The Leather-Winged Bat
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Three Folk Songs
The Moon Is a Mirror
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the Little Girl Said)
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
The Old Horse in the City
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: The Moon Is a Mirror
The Strength of the Lonely (What the Mendicant Said)
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: The Moon Is a Mirror
The Sun Kept Setting
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: How Well I Knew the Light
The Thin Edge
Jake Heggie
Dorothy Parker
Song Collection: Before the Storm
These Strangers
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Frederick Douglass
Walt Whitman
These Strangers, in a foreign World
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: These Strangers
The Work at Hand
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Laura Morefield
Three Folk Songs
Song CollectionJake Heggie
To a Stranger, #52 from Leaves of Grass
Jake Heggie
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: These Strangers
To Make a Prairie
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: From Emily's Garden
Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Of Laughter and Farewell
Was My Brother in the Battle?
Jake Heggie
Stephen Foster
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
What the Forester Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: The Moon Is a Mirror
What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
What the Miner in the Desert Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: The Moon Is a Mirror
What the Rattlesnake Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
What the Scarecrow Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
What the Snowman Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: The Moon Is a Mirror
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Jake Heggie
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
White in the Moon
Jake Heggie
A. E. Housman
Winter Roses
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Raymond Carver
Women Have Loved Before
Jake Heggie
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa Told the Children)
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
You Scream
Jake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
Song Collection: From 'The Book of Nightmares'
Videos
Recordings
An American Song Album
(Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Jake Heggie)
2019
A Certain Slant of Light
(Aaron Copland, Jake Heggie and Michael Tilson Thomas)
2018
The Moon's A Gong, Hung In The Wild: Songs By Jake Heggie
(Raymond Carver, Jake Heggie, Vachel Lindsay, Sister Helen Prejean and Gene Scheer)
2015
Heggie: Connection - Three Song Cycles
(Jake Heggie)
2014
The Hours Begin to Sing
(William Bolcom, John Corigliano and Jake Heggie)
2013
Passing By
(Raymond Carver, Jake Heggie, A. E. Housman, Vachel Lindsay and Edna St. Vincent Millay)
2010
Heggie: For a Look or a Touch / Laitman: The Seed of a Dream
(Jake Heggie and Lori Laitman)
2008
Flesh and Stone: Songs of Jake Heggie
(Raymond Carver, Emily Dickinson, Jake Heggie, Sister Helen Prejean, Gene Scheer and Anne Sexton)
The Deepest Desire
(Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Jake Heggie)
2006
Dwell in Possibility: Dickinson in Song
(Ernst Bacon, Aaron Copland, Celius Dougherty, John Woods Duke, Lee Hoiby, Richard Hundley, Jake Heggie, Lori Laitman, Libby Larsen, Etta Parker, Simon Sargon, Leo Smit and Richard Pearson Thomas)
2004
American Songs (Jennifer Larmore)
(Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, John Woods Duke, Jake Heggie, Lee Hoiby, Charles Ives, Charles Naginski and John Jacob Niles)
1997
Sheet Music
Rise and Fall
Composer(s): Jake Heggie
Song(s): 1. Water Stone (Noguchi)
2. Incantation Bowl
3. Angel's Wings
4. The Shaman
The Deepest Desire
Composer(s): Jake Heggie
Song(s): 1. More is Required
2. Love
3. I Catch on Fire
4. The Deepest Desire
5. Primary Colors
The Faces of Love (Book 3)
Composer(s): Jake Heggie
Song(s): 1. Barb'ry Allen
2. He's Gone Away
3. The Leather-Winged Bat
Voice Type: Medium
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