Barking Owl has added Baltimore-based musician Dan Deacon to its roster of composers. Within the realm of live performance, Deacon has premiered compositions at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and collaborated with innumerable artists and institutions, including Kronos Quartet, Sล Percussion, the L.A. Philharmonic, and Justin Peck with the New York City Ballet. Deacon has also toured internationally with popular recording artists, including Arcade Fire, Miley Cyrus, Future Islands, and The Flaming Lips. When performing solo, Deacon’s live shows are known for large-scale audience participation, frequently setting up his performance space on the floor level with the audience engaged in close proximity.
Deacon’s work in the classic-contemporary scene led him into the world of film and television. Deacon created original music for Francis Ford Coppola’s horror feature film Twixt, starring Val Kilmer. His work composing for documentary films All Light, Everywhere (2021, Sundance Film Festival) and Ascension (2021, Tribeca Film Festival) garnered him nominations for Outstanding Original Score at the Cinema Eye Honors in 2022, with Deacon taking home the prize for Ascension. Deacon has also provided the musical score for the sports drama Hustle starring Adam Sandler, currently streaming on Netflix.