Huck Hodge

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Huck Hodge
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Huck Hodge at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Born (1977-07-14) July 14, 1977 (age 44)
Era Contemporary

Huck Hodge (born July 14, 1977) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

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Hodge's first musical training took place in Oregon. In 1999, he began a course of study in Germany at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart 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 Tristan Murail and Fred Lerdahl. Hodge graduated with MA and DMA degrees from Columbia.

Hodge is the winner of the Charles Ives Living, [1] awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018, a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010–11 Rome Prize, the 2008 Gaudeamus Prize, commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Music Foundations, and the Aaron Copland Residency Award from the Aaron Copland House. He is professor and chair of music composition at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Compositional style

Two salient elements in Hodge's music are the incorporation of timbre as an integral form-bearing compositional device and an approach to musical structure that emphasizes gradual change over time. As such, his music bears traces of American Minimalism [2] and Franco-European Spectralism, [3] though Jonathan Bernard questions this ascription, pointing out that his music is somewhat iconoclastic in its reliance on philosophical ideas as the impetus and justification for its materials and structures. [4]

His music is also characterized by its incorporation of techniques drawn from electroacoustic composition, [5] its response to light patterns found in nature, [6] and its approach to dialogue with the music of previous centuries. [7]

Catalog of works

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References

  1. "Composer Huck Hodge has won a $200,000 prize". Associated Press. January 24, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
  2. Kozinn, Allan (June 4, 2010). "In Low-Key Buffalo, a New-Music Milestone". New York Times. Retrieved March 19, 2019.
  3. "BabelScores". Huck Hodge.
  4. Bernard, Jonathan (June 9, 2014). "Huck Hodge: Life is Endless Like Our Field of Vision" (PDF). New World Records. 80758 (liner notes): 1.
  5. "#3669: Ambient Electroacoustic Music | New Sounds | New Sounds". newsounds.
  6. "Huck Hodge, Radhika Jones, and Other Alumni in the News". Columbia Magazine.
  7. "#4148: Modern Monteverdi | New Sounds | New Sounds". newsounds.
  8. Allan Kozinn (April 20, 2012). "Whistling Eclecticism: Motors and Fishing Line: MATA Festival, With Quartet New Generation and JACK Quartet". The New York Times. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
  9. Michael Upchurch (October 23, 2015). "Well-orchestrated UW, SSO partnership blossoms with '[untitled]'". Seattle Times. Retrieved May 15, 2016.