Huck Hodge

Huck Hodge ( * 1977 in Gainesville, Florida, USA ) is an American composer of contemporary music.

Style characteristics

Significant suggestions for Hodges music are " recent research in the fields of psychoacoustics and cognition problems of eastern and western philosophy and the music of the earlier Renaissance ." Viewed Aesthetically, his work is influenced by the techniques of the French Spectralismus, although the tendency is maintained to a rhythmic and textural complexity, reminiscent of the German avant-garde of the post-war period.

Studies and artistic career

His earliest musical training received Hodge in the state of Oregon on the U.S. West Coast. From 1999 to 2002 he studied music theory and new media at the Stuttgart Music Academy with the support of the DAAD. From 2002 to 2008 he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at Columbia University in New York City. There he studied composition with Tristan Murail.

Hodge is the winner of several prestigious international awards, including of the Rome Prize Luciano Berio, the Gaudeamus International Composition Prize and the Aaron Copland composition prize of Bogliasco Foundation. Since 2008, he taught composition at the University of Washington in Seattle as an Assistant Professor.

List of Works

  • Toccata for Piano
  • Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra
  • Reflection | Mirror Image for tenor saxophone and piano
  • String Quintet
  • Kandinsky Studies for computer synthesis (programmed in C Sound)
  • AntEroica for piano with live electronics and video playback
  • Ceremony ( for computers)
  • The Awakeneing for large orchestra
  • Ceremony ( version for large chamber ensemble, computer and dance); in collaboration with the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble
  • Seeds of Fire for piano and computer
  • Between Light and Shade for Flute, Cello and 3 percussionists
  • De Nativitate for Piano Quintet
  • Psalm XIII for SSAATTB Choir
  • Early Lyrics ( Sop, Fl, Cl / Bkl, Vln, Vcl, Pno and Electronics )
  • Parallax for chamber orchestra
  • Como un respiro ... for solo cello and eleven strings
  • A Distant Mirror for Bass Clarinet / Clarinet and Piano
  • Remix Asyla for Large Ensemble; in collaboration with Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic
  • Fantasy for Cello; Order by MDJ for cellists Adrian Fung as part of the ISCM World New Music Festival, 2006
  • Out of a Dark Sea (Fl / alto fl, cl / Bkl, Hrn, Slzg, Hrf, Pno, Vln, Vcl and Electronics ); Behalf of the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players
  • Two Preludes for Harp
  • In Lumine for SATB choir
  • Efflux for clarinet and violin
  • String Quartet; Commissioned by the American Composers Forum with support from the Jerome Foundation
  • Apparent Motion; written for the Acanthes Festival
  • Transfigured Etudes; composed for the 2010 ISCM World New Music Days, Sydney, Australia
  • Aletheia [2010 /11] for large chamber ensemble; Commissioned by Ensemble Aleph as part of the Laboratoire Européen Instrumental
  • From the language of shadows [2010 /11] for symphonic wind ensemble, two amplified pianos, 3 amplified double basses and silent film; Behalf of CBDNA
  • Départ for Violin, written as part of a musical in honor of Tristan Murail
  • Pools of shadow from an older sky for piano with live electronics and video playback, commissioned by the American Academy in Rome
  • Passeggiata for trumpet, piano and live electronics
Gainesville (Florida) German Academic Exchange Service Gaudeamus International Composers Award
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