Composer Spotlight
Huck Hodge
Metaphor as Structure
Wed., August 11 @ 7:30pm
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle
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Huck Hodge will talk about metaphor as a principle of generative structure in his work work. Hodge writes music that is influenced by the fields of Psychoacoustics and Cognition, eastern and western philosophical inquiry and music of the early Renaissance.
Praised by the New York Times for his “harmonically fresh work with variegated textures full of both sparkle and thunder,” Huck Hodge has had performances in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and his music has been broadcast by Dutch National Radio, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and WKCR New York. His compositions are regularly performed throughout the world at such festivals as the ISCM World New Music Days, the Gaudeamus Muziekweek, June in Buffalo, Acanthes, the Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival (South Korea) and Berliner Festspiele|MaerzMusik. He is the winner of the Rome Prize, the Gaudeamus Prize, the Aaron Copland award from the Bogliasco Foundation and several other awards and commissions from such organizations as the American Composers Forum, Muziek Centrum Nederland and Musik der Jahrhunderte and has been awarded residencies at the Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities in Italy, the Camargo Foundation in France and the MacDowell Colony. Some of his notable collaborations include those with members of Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic, the ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, the Afiara String Quartet, the New York New Music Ensemble, l’Ensemble Aleph and Ensemble SurPlus. Hodge received his MA and DMA from Columbia University where his principal teachers were Tristan Murail and Fred Lerdahl. Prior to this, he studied Music Theory and Computer Music at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, where his teachers included Georg Wötzer and Marco Stroppa. He is currently Assistant Professor in Composition at the University of Washington.
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