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Robert Hutchinson, Music
Robert Hutchinson is Associate Professor of music theory and composition at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He earned his PhD from the University of Oregon in 1998, an MM from Northern Arizona University in 1993, and a BA from California State University Bakersfield in 1992. Most recently he completed a commission, As the Blue Night Descends upon the World, which was premiered in February 2007 by the Tacoma Concert Band. His Suite for Wind Quartet was premiered in May 2006 by the Auburn Chamber Winds (of the Auburn Symphony). The Northwest Sinfonietta commissioned and premiered Fantasia on Themes of Mozart in March 2006. The Tacoma Youth Symphony commissioned and premiered From the Sea to the Stars in 2004. His composition Dancing on the Strand for wind ensemble was presented at the Symposium XXIX for New Band Music in Richmond, Virginia, in 2004, and received an honorable mention in the competition for ASCAP's 2004 Rudolph Nissim Award. Hutchinson's Jeux d'Enfants was selected by the Charles Ives Center for American Music for a June 2002 premiere by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2002, The Slow Voyage Through Night for symphonic band was performed at the Society of Composers' national conference in Akron, Ohio. Both Jeux d'Enfants and Dancing on the Strand were selected for performance at the Society of Composers 2004 National Conference in Oklahoma in 2004. The Oregon Festival of American Music, Oregon Wind Ensemble and the Oregon Festival Choirs commissioned Liberatio in Morte for solo baritone voice, children’s choir and wind ensemble for a February 2000 premiere. His Trio for flute, clarinet and marimba was premiered in July 1998 as part of the American Milestones series at the Oregon Bach Festival. In 1997, Hutchinson won the Third Angle New Music Ensemble’s Young Composers Competition. Portland-based Third Angle performed his Three Character Pieces for mixed chamber ensemble in Portland and Salem in February 1998. In January 1997, a commission for string orchestra, The Moon Kissing The Sea, was premiered by the Musica da Camera orchestra in Bakersfield, California. Four of his compositions for band (Dancing on the Strand, Musser Overture, The Slow Voyage Through Night, and Beyond the Dark Horizon) are published by Walrus Music (walrusmusic.com). Hutchinson is also a jazz bassist and organizes and appears at the Jazz in the Rotunda series at the University of Puget Sound. Contact rghutchinson@ups.edu
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