Huck Hodge

Huck Hodge (b. 1977, Gainesville, FL) is an American composer resident in Seattle, Washington.

Hodge's music "is influenced by the fields of Psychoacoustics and Cognition, eastern and western philosophical inquiry and music of the early Renaissance" [http://music.columbia.edu/~hodge/bio.htm Biography of Huck Hodge] ] . From an aesthetic standpoint, his works are influenced by French Spectralism while maintaining rhythmic and textural complexity that is reminiscent of music of the German post-war Avant Garde [http://www.concertzender.nl Dossier at Concertzender Radio Netherlands] ] .

Biography

Hodge's first musical training took place in Oregon. In 1999 he began a course of study in Germany at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart with funding from the "Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst". Between 2002 and 2008 he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at Columbia University where he studied Composition under the instruction of Tristan Murail and Fred Lerdahl [http://128.59.116.22/columbiacomposers/alumni/13/ Profile at Columbia University] ] .

Hodge is the winner of the 2008 Gaudeamus Prize and the Aaron Copland Award from the Bogliasco Foundation. He is currently Assistant Professor in Composition at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Catalog of Works

"Apparent Motion" [2008]
*commissioned by the "Centre Acanthes"

"String Quartet" [2008]
*commissioned by the American Composers Forum with funding from the Jerome Foundation

"Efflux" for Clarinet and Violin [2007]

"In Lumine" for SATB Choir [2007]

"Two Preludes" for Harp solo [2007]

"Out of a Dark Sea" (Fl/Alto Fl, Cl/Bcl, Hrn, Perc, Harp, Pno, Vln, Vcl and Electronics) [2006]
*commissioned by The Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, Gilbert Kalish, Director, as part of the
19th Annual World Premieres Commission Series

"Phantasie" for amplified Cello [2006]
*commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte for cellist Adrian Fung as part of the ISCM World New Music Festival, 2006

"Remix-Asyla" for Large Ensemble [2006]
*in collaboration with members of "Ensemble Modern" and the Berlin Philharmonic

"A Distant Mirror" for Bass Clarinet/Clarinet and Piano [2006]

". . .como un respiro" for solo Cello and eleven strings [2005]

"Parallaxes" for Chamber Orchestra [2005]

"Early Lyrics" (Sop, Fl, Cl/Bcl, Vln, Vcl, Pno and Electronics) [2004]

"Psalm XIII" for SSAATTB Choir [2004]

"De Nativitate" for Piano Quintet [2003]

"Between Light and Shade" for Flute, Cello and 3 Percussion [2003]

"Seeds of Fire" for Piano and Computerized Sound [2003]

"Zeremonie" (version for Large Ensemble, Computerized Sound and Dance) [2002]
*in collaboration with the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble

"The Awakeneing" for Full Orchestra [2002]

"Zeremonie" (for Computerized Sound) [2001]

"AntEroica" for Piano, Live Electronics and Video Projection [2001]

"Kandinsky Studies" for Computer-Synthesized Sound (programmed in C Sound) [2001]

"String Quintet" [2001]

"Widerspiegelung | Mirror Image" for Tenor Saxophone and Piano [2000]

"Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra" [1999]

"Toccata" for Piano solo [1998]

External Links

* [http://music.columbia.edu/~hodge Hodge Homepage]
* [http://www.wnmf2006.de/index.php?PageID=13&p=1&ID=5&pID=1000270 Hodge at the 2006 ISCM World New Music Festival]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3006605/filmogenre Hodge at IMDB]
* [http://netnewmusic.net/wiki/index.php/Huck_Hodge "Sequenza 21" Article on Hodge]

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