Huck Hodge
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Huck Hodge is an American composer of contemporary classical music
.
Hodge's music "is influenced by the fields of Psychoacoustics
and Cognition
, eastern and western philosophical inquiry and music of the early Renaissance". 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.
with funding from the Deutscher Akademischer 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
.
Hodge is the winner of the 2011 Rome Prize
, the 2008 Gaudeamus Prize
and the Aaron Copland
Award from the Bogliasco
Foundation. He is an assistant professor of composition at the University of Washington
, Seattle.
Apparent Motion [2008]
String Quartet [2008]
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]
Phantasie for amplified Cello [2006]
Remix-Asyla for Large Ensemble [2006]
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]
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]
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
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Hodge's music "is influenced by the fields of Psychoacoustics
Psychoacoustics
Psychoacoustics is the scientific study of sound perception. More specifically, it is the branch of science studying the psychological and physiological responses associated with sound...
and Cognition
Cognition
In science, cognition refers to mental processes. These processes include attention, remembering, producing and understanding language, solving problems, and making decisions. Cognition is studied in various disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science...
, eastern and western philosophical inquiry and music of the early Renaissance". 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.
Biography
Hodge's first musical training took place in Oregon. In 1999 he began a course of study in Germany at the Musikhochschule in StuttgartStuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
with funding from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
German Academic Exchange Service
The German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation....
. Between 2002 and 2008 he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City and Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969...
Fellow at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
where he studied Composition
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
under the instruction of Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail is a French composer. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, aka Moka, also write, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children's writer...
and Fred Lerdahl
Fred Lerdahl
Alfred Whitford Lerdahl is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on pitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musical grammar[s]." He has written many orchestral and chamber...
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Hodge is the winner of the 2011 Rome Prize
Rome Prize
The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists and to 15 scholars The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists...
, the 2008 Gaudeamus Prize
Gaudeamus Foundation
The Gaudeamus Foundation and Contemporary Music Center is a renowned center for contemporary music. The Gaudeamus Foundation organizes and promotes contemporary musical activities and concerts both in the Netherlands and abroad...
and the Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
Award from the Bogliasco
Bogliasco
Bogliasco is a comune in the Province of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about 11 km southeast of Genoa. Together with the comuni of Camogli, Recco, Pieve Ligure and Sori, it is part of the so-called Golfo Paradiso...
Foundation. He is an assistant professor of composition at the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
, Seattle.
Catalog of Works
Le Tombeau de Chopin [2009]- written for the 2010 ISCM World New Music Days, Sydney, Australia
Apparent Motion [2008]
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 KalishGilbert KalishGilbert Kalish is an American pianist.He was born in New York and studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabelle Vengerova. He was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a pioneering new music group that flourished during the 1960s and '70s...
, 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]