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Huck Hodge
American classical composer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Huck Hodge (born July 14, 1977) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Born | (1977-07-14) July 14, 1977 (age 46) Gainesville, Florida, U.S. |
Era | Contemporary |
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.