Jackson Hill (composer)

Jackson Hill (composer)

Jackson Hill, born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1941, is an American composer primarily of vocal music.

Biography

Hill was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Ph.D. in musicology in 1970). A composer from the age of 14, he studied composition with Iain Hamilton at Duke University (1964-66) and Roger Hannay (1967-68). He has served as a choral assistant at Exeter College, Oxford, and as a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He studied Buddhist chant as a Fulbright Fellow in Japan in the 1970s, and traditional Japanese music has been a strong influence in his work.

He has received numerous awards and prizes for his music, which includes choral, solo, and chamber music, as well as a chamber opera and three symphonies. Hill’s music has been widely performed in Europe, Asia and the Americas, including performances at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Chautauqua, and Edinburgh festivals. Recent commissions have come from Lichfield Cathedral, Chanticleer, and the King's Singers. His composition "Voices of Autumn" was part of Chanticleer’s Grammy nomination in 2003. He has taught at Duke University (1966-1968) and since 1968 at Bucknell University, where he has served as Associate Dean, Presidential Professor, and Chair of the Department of Music.

Compositions

Hill is internationally known for his contribution to the vocal idiom. Recent pieces include:

Music for solo voice

* Long hidden deep in winter's keeping (2001) voice / string quartet
* Philomel (2002) voice / recorder / cello / harp

Church music with English text

* By Water and the Word (1995) SATB / org
* The Gifts of the Spirit (1996) SATB / org
* Praise, O Praise the Lord (1997) SATB / org
* A Song of Pilgrimage (1997) SATB
* How Shall the Young (2000) SATB / org

Church music with Latin text

* Populus Sion, ecce Dominus (1994) SATB

Choral concert music

* O Light Invisible (1994) SATB
* In Winter's Keeping (2001)
* Remembered love, unforgotten dreams (2004) AATBBB
* When spring is born at last (2004) SATB

ee also

* [http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jhill/ Composer's homepage]

References

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Second Edition, 2000), American Music Center (New York), S.A.I. Composers Bureau Online


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