For a more extensive bio, list of works, upcoming performances, recordings and program notes, visit: http://panther.bsc.edu/~dhindman/ |
Critics have called Dr. Dorothy Hindman’s (b. 1966) music ‘intense, gripping, and frenetic’, ‘sonorous and affirmative’ and ‘music of terrific romantic gesture’. Each of her unique pieces explores her ongoing interest in issues of musical perception, beauty, timbre, contextual meaning, and profundity. Her work has been performed extensively in the U.S., and also in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Romania, and the Czech Republic. Recent commissions include Drift for the Lithium Saxophone Quartet, Taut for the Corona Guitar Kvartet, and Time Management for bassist Robert Black. She was the recipient of an Alabama Music Teachers Association/MTNA Commission for their 2002 conference, and recently completed Louise: The Story of a Magdalen, a full length opera commissioned by Alabama Operaworks. Other awards and recognition include the Atlanta Prize in the 2001 Hultgren Biennial Solo Cello Works Competition, an Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, the NACUSA Young Composers Competition, the Abraham Frost Composition Competition, the ASCA/National Symphony Orchestra Commission Competition, the G. Schirmer Young Americans Choral Competition, and the Percussive Arts Society’s International Solo Marimba Composition Competition.. She has participated in conferences, workshops and artistic residences including SCI National and Regional Conferences, Imagine, May in Miami, June in Buffalo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Hambidge Center, and she co-hosted the SEAMUS 1996 National Conference at Birmingham-Southern College. She holds degrees with honors from Duke University and the University of Miami, and her teachers include Dennis Kam, Stephen Jaffe, Louis Andriessen, Thomas Oboe Lee, and John Van der Slice. She is a founding member of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Composers, Inc. She currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama, and is Assistant Professor of theory and composition at Birmingham-Southern College. |
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“drowningXnumbers” (drowning by numbers) was written during a residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts in December, 1994, for cellist Craig Hultgren, who asked for a piece for amplified cello. The piece exploits the effects made possible by amplification, and also incorporates virtuosic effects which were inspired by Craig himself. It is a continuous, fifteen-minute work divided into three main sections, each with a faster tempo but longer note durations than the preceding. The first section is unforgivingly aggressive, the second is more percussive but less frantic, and the third is increasingly quiet, desolate, and still. The work is the composer’s response to the large amount of aggressive music being composed by her colleagues. It reflects some of her own beliefs about beauty, emotion, intention, and profundity in music. While the title suggests an obvious metaphor for the work, it is a reference to a film by Peter Greenaway, and even more a reference and grateful acknowledgment to composer Louis Andriessen. | |||
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