Huck Hodge

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Huck Hodge writes music that explores the embodied poetics of organized sound, perceptual illusion and the threshold between design and intuition. Uniquely northwestern American light patterns act as an inspiration in much of his music - the way that a piercing slant of light, breaking through a dreary cloudscape, casts an intense, otherworldly chiaroscuro on the landscape - the ethereal yellowness of the light in bas-relief against the yawning darkness of the sky. These stark contrasts in light and dark find their way into his striking combination of pure and dissonant harmonies, widely spaced orchestrations and vast, diffuse timbres. A composer of "harmonically fresh work", "full of both sparkle and thunder" (New York Times), his music has been praised for its "immediate impact" (Chicago Tribune), its "clever, attractive, streamlined" qualities (NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam) and its ability to "conjure up worlds of musical magic" with "power and charisma" (Gramophone Magazine, London). His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and at numerous major festivals throughout the world - the New York Philharmonic Biennial, Berliner Festspiele, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, ISCM World Music Days and many others. His musical collaborations include those with members of Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Orchestra of the League of Composers, the Aleph, ASKO/Schónberg, Dal Niente, Divertimento, SurPlus and Talea ensembles, the Afiara, Daedalus, JACK and Pacifica string quartets, and numerous other ensembles. His published music is licensed and distributed by Alexander Street Press. Recordings of his music appear on the New World and Albany record labels. Hodge was educated at Columbia University and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany where he studied with noted "spectralist" composers Tristan Murail and Marco Stroppa. In 2018 he was awarded the Charles Ives Living, the largest and most prestigious music award conferred by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Other major awards include the Rome Prize, the Gaudeamus Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, the American Composers Forum, the Barlow Endowment, Music at the Anthology, the Siemens Musikstiftung and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, among many others. Hodge is Associate Professor and Chair of the Composition program at the University of Washington.
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Cuarteto de Cuerdas

La gran soledad: String Quartet no. 2 in memoriam Franscisco Iovino (2023)
The Topography of Desire for string quartet (2016)

Ensamble de Cámara (5 - 9 instrumentos)

The simple and unvarying geometry of breaths for ensemble (2020)
Apophenia for ensemble (2014)
Re[(f)use] for live processed melodica, amplified string quartet and electronics (2012)

Grupo de Cámara ( 2 - 4 instrumentos )

La gran soledad: String Quartet no. 2 in memoriam Franscisco Iovino (2023)
Studies in Solitude for clarinet and violin (2020)
Fracture for percussion and piano (2019)
The Topography of Desire for string quartet (2016)

Instrumento Solo

Innigkeit (nach aussen) for clarinet solo (2018)
Mi'ma'amakin מ ַמּ ֲע ַמ ִקּ י ם (2018)
Phantasie for solo amplified cello (2016)
Transfigured Etudes for piano solo (2009)

Concerto

At dawn I chant my own weird hymn for solo offstage trumpet, symphonic winds, 2 harps, 2 pianos, 4 percussion and 3 contrabasses (2017)
La Llorona Image VI from the Aztec book of omens, for solo flute/bass flute and ensemble (2013)

Ensamble (Instrumentos o Voces) y Electrónica en Tiempo Real

Out of a Dark Sea for ensemble and electronics (2016)

Ensamble (10 - 19 instrumentos)

Parallaxes for ensemble (2016)
Aletheia for ensemble (2011)

Música Orquestal

Pulse - cut - seethe - blur for chamber orchestra (2015)

Ensamble Mixto

Apophenia for ensemble (2014)

Ensamble Coral

Time is the substance I am made of for 32 singers and electronics (2013)
In Lumine for SSAATTB chorus a capella (2007)

Instrumento y Electrónica

Out of a Dark Sea for ensemble and electronics (2016)
Re[(f)use] for live processed melodica, amplified string quartet and electronics (2012)

Voces e Instrumentos

Early Lyrics for soprano, ensemble, and electronics (2004)
Aletheia for ensemble (2011)
Apophenia for ensemble (2014)
At dawn I chant my own weird hymn for solo offstage trumpet, symphonic winds, 2 harps, 2 pianos, 4 percussion and 3 contrabasses (2017)
Early Lyrics for soprano, ensemble, and electronics (2004)
Fracture for percussion and piano (2019)
In Lumine for SSAATTB chorus a capella (2007)
Innigkeit (nach aussen) for clarinet solo (2018)
La gran soledad: String Quartet no. 2 in memoriam Franscisco Iovino (2023)
La Llorona Image VI from the Aztec book of omens, for solo flute/bass flute and ensemble (2013)
Mi'ma'amakin מ ַמּ ֲע ַמ ִקּ י ם (2018)
Out of a Dark Sea for ensemble and electronics (2016)
Parallaxes for ensemble (2016)
Phantasie for solo amplified cello (2016)
Pulse - cut - seethe - blur for chamber orchestra (2015)
Re[(f)use] for live processed melodica, amplified string quartet and electronics (2012)
Studies in Solitude for clarinet and violin (2020)
The simple and unvarying geometry of breaths for ensemble (2020)
The Topography of Desire for string quartet (2016)
Time is the substance I am made of for 32 singers and electronics (2013)
Transfigured Etudes for piano solo (2009)