Huck Hodge

Huck Hodge (b. 1977) writes music that is influenced by the fields of Psychoacoustics and Cognition, eastern and western philosophical inquiry and music of the early Renaissance. He is the winner of the 2008 Gaudeamus Prize, the Aaron Copland Award from the Bogliasco Foundation and numerous other honors, awards and commissions from organizations such as the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, the Centre Acanthes, the Jerome Foundation, the Manhattan Sinfonietta, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players (19th Annual World Premieres Commission) and Musik der Jahrhunderte as part of the ISCM World New Music Festival.

Other notable performances include collaborations with members of Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic, the ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, the soloists of the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the New York New Music Ensemble, Second Instrumental Unit, ensemble adapter (Germany) and the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble. His music has been performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and has been broadcast by Dutch National Radio (Radio 4 Netherlands), Concertzender Radio and WKCR New York. His compositions have been played throughout the world at numerous festivals including the Gaudeamus Muziekweek, The Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival (South Korea), Berliner Festspiele|MaerzMusik, the Composers Conference at Wellesley College and the ISCM Global Interplay symposium. He has been awarded residencies at the Camargo Foundation’s estate in Cassis, France and at the Ligura Center for the Arts and Humanities in Italy. His work has been supported through funding from numerous organizations including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

Hodge received his doctorate in Composition from Columbia University (2008) where his principal teacher was Tristan Murail. Prior to this, he studied Music Theory and Computer Music at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, where his teachers included Georg Wötzer and Marco Stroppa. He has also studied with Fred Lerdahl at Columbia University, Mario Davidovsky at Wellesley College and Walter Zimmermann at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He is currently Assistant Professor in Composition at the University of Washington, Seattle.