HUCK HODGE

 

Assistant Professor in Music Composition        

University of Washington, Seattle

2008, D.M.A., Composition, Columbia University
2004, M.A. Composition, Columbia University
2002, B.M. Composition (cum laude), Oregon
1999-2001 Musiktheorie und Neue Medien, Musikhochschule Stuttgart

Selected Performances:

New York venues:

Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall (Remix-Asyla)

Symphony Space, Nimoy Thalia (Phantasie)
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufmann Center (Between Light and Shade, Out of a Dark Sea)
Miller Theater (Parallaxes)

The Stone (Efflux)
Frederick Loewe Theater (Zeremonie [choreographed version])
ISCM Global Interplay, Goethe Institut, New York (Phantasie)
Rose Studio at Lincoln Center (Piano Quintet, Zeremonie)
Tenri Cultural Institute (Early Lyrics, Widerspiegelung)
Mannes Concert Hall (. . .como un respiro)

Selected world venues:

La Chiesa di San Zeno, Pisa, Italy (Zeremonie [choreographed version])
University of Natal, Durban, South Africa: Electronic Music Festival (Zeremonie)
Berliner Festspiele: Maerzmusik, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (A Distant Mirror)
Stuttgarter Musikhochschule (Composer Portrait)

Conference Presentations:

Compositional Applications of Current Pyschoacoustical and Cognitive Research (2006)
ISCM Global Interplay, Berlin
ISCM Global Interplay, New York

The recent music of Huck Hodge is influenced by East Asian musical traditions, music of the early Renaissance, Western and Eastern philosophical inquiry and the fields of Psychoacoustics and Cognition.

He has received numerous commissions, awards and honors from organizations and ensembles such as the Centre Acanthes, Gaudeamus/New Music Center the Netherlands, the American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation, the Manhattan Sinfonietta, the Carlsbad Music Festival’s Composition Competition,the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players as part of the 19th Annual World Premieres Series and from Musik der Jahrhunderte as part of the ISCM World New Music Festival.

Other commissions and/or performances include collaborations with members of Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic, the ASKO Ensemble, the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Second Instrumental Unit, Ensemble Adapter, Counter)induction and the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble. His music has been performed throughout the world at numerous festivals including Acanthes, the Gaudeamus Muziekweek,where he was nominated for the Gaudeamus Prize, Maerzmusik and the ISCM Global Interplay festivals in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Konzertsaal Bundesallee in Berlin and the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. His work has been supported through funding from organizations such as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, the Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music and the DAAD.

Hodge is currently a Faculty Fellow at Columbia University where he teaches undergraduate composition. His primary teachers at Columbia are Tristan Murail (composition), and Fred Lerdahl (music cognition and composition). He has also studied with Walter Zimmermann at Columbia University and at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. Prior to this he studied Music Theory and Computer Music at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, where his teachers included Georg Wötzer and Marco Stroppa