Huck Hodge

           Music, Sound Art, ETC.                          

Huck Hodge writes music that explores the embodied poetics of organized sound, perceptual illusion and the threshold between design and intuition. 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 institutions such as the American Composers Forum, Music at the Anthology (MATA), the American Liszt Society, ASCAP, Muziek Centrum Nederland and Musik der Jahrhunderte.

Praised by the New York Times for his “harmonically fresh work with variegated textures full of both sparkle and thunder,” Hodge has had performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and his music has been the subject of live broadcast on numerous international radio stations. His compositions are regularly performed throughout the world at such festivals as Nuova Consonanza, the ISCM World New Music Festival, the Gaudeamus Muziekweek, the Laboratoire Instrumental Europeén, June in Buffalo, the Berliner Festspiele|MaerzMusik, Acanthes and the Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival in South Korea. He has been awarded residencies at the Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities in Italy, the Camargo Foundation in France and the MacDowell Colony. His work has been supported with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).

Some of his notable collaborations include those with members of Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic, the ASKO Ensemble, l’Ensemble Aleph, Ensemble SurPlus, the Scharoun Ensemble, the Afiara String Quartet, Majella Stockhausen and video artist Karen Yasinsky. Upcoming engagements include new works for the JACK Quartet and the Talea Ensemble.

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 an Assistant Professor in Composition at the University of Washington.