Hulford, Denise New Zealand
(b Christchurch, 24 Oct 1944; d Mount Eden Auckland, 24 Dec2019)
Bold as Brass 1992
Centre for New Zealand Music 15‘
Wiki Category: Women Composers
Hui, Melissa
Hui, Melissa China / Canada
(b Hong Kong, 22 Apr 1966)
Bebop (with percussion)
Hoppe, Micaela
Hoppe, Micaela Sweden
(b 1965)
Natt i staden (Night in the City) 2008
COMPOSER 8’
Hopkins, Esther
English composer, horn player, and educator
WOrks for brass ensemble
- Changes (2000) for brass quintet
- Perotin Revisited (2010) for tuba quartet
- Y Blaidd Olaf (The Last Wolf) (2012) for solo trumpet and brass band
Biography
Esther began as a player in brass bands and orchestras whilst growing up in Tenby, West Wales. She left to pursue her musical education and she attained a BA(hons) in Music at Bath Spa University followed by postgraduate studies in composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before gaining a PGCE from Cardiff University
After leaving the Cardiff area, she undertook a number of varied roles which included Music Lecturer at Swansea College, Course Leader of Popular Music at New College, Telford, Music Teacher at Holland Park, London, Course Co-ordinator of Music at Haylane Special School and now works part time teaching composition at the Egerton Rothesay School
She still plays casually and is a founding member of the Little Phoebe Brass Quintet where she plays horn and provides arrangements to order.
Recently Esther has composed pieces for Regent Brass, Staines Brass, London Consort of Winds – Ancient and Modern Consort, Isle of Axholme Orchestra and various solo comissions.
Esther also continues her development and training and has recently attended courses with Nanita Desai (BAFTA Breakthrough Brit 2016-17) at Goldsmiths University
She has a strong musical interest in the folk traditions of the British Isles and World Music and these influences can often be heard in her music.
Resources
Hoover, Katherine
Hoover, Katherine United States
(b Elkins WV, 2 Dec 1937; d Manhattan NY, 21 Sep 2018)
Variations on a Bach Theme 1974
American Music Center ’
Sonata 1984
Holland, Dulcie Sybil
Holland, Dulcie Sybil Australia
(b Sydney, 5 Jan 1913; d Sydney, 21 May 2000)
A Merry Christmas to You 1970
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Voulez-vous promener avec moi ce soir? 1968
Edition Peters
Higdon, Jennifer
31 December 1962; Brooklyn, New York
American composer
Works for Brass Ensemble
- Ceremonies (2001) for brass quintet and organ
- Fanfare Quintet (2002) for brass quintet
- Spirit (2006) for brass ensemble
- Tenfold (2011) for brass ensemble
- Book of Brass (2022) for brass quintet
References
Hextall, Pieta
New Zealand composer, bassoonist, and educator
Works for Brass Ensemble
- Five Short Pieces for Brass Quintet (2007)
Biography
Pieta Hextall is a Christchurch-based composer and musician. She has recently returned from Melbourne, where she was an active member of the music community playing in a number of bands and ensembles including Umlaut, Progetto Corelli, and various orchestras. Pieta graduated from the New Zealand School of Music in 2012 with a MMus. She is currently studying a MTchLn at the University of Canterbury.
Pieta has had works performed and workshopped by the Hawthorn City Brass Band, Preston Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the New Zealand String Quartet, the New Zealand School of Music Orchestra, Capital Brass, Christchurch Youth Orchestra, Gao Ping, Andrew Uren, Anne Loeser, Mette Leroy, Richard Haynes, Johnny Chang, and Donald Nicolson.
Resources
Harbach, Barbara
b PA, 14 Feb 1946
American composer
Works for Brass Ensemble
- Fanfare for Grand Center (2012) for brass quintet
- Rhapsody Ritmico (2004) for brass quintet
Grenfell, Maria
1969, Malaysia
Australian composer & educator
Works for brass esnemble
- Dancing at the Camerata (2003) for brass quintet
- Creatures of Norse (2016) for brass quintet
- Gaudete Fanfare (2021) for brass ensemble
Biography
Maria Grenfell was born in Malaysia, and completed composition studies in Christchurch, New Zealand. She obtained a Masters degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and a Doctorate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she was also a lecturer. Her teachers have included Stephen Hartke, Erica Muhl, James Hopkins and Morten Lauridsen, Joseph Schwantner and Samuel Adler. Maria Grenfell’s work takes much of its influence from poetic, literary and visual sources, and from non-Western music and literature. Her orchestral music has been commissioned, performed or recorded by all the major symphony orchestras in Australia and New Zealand. Her chamber music has been performed by musicians such as members of eighth blackbird, the Australia Ensemble, the Vienna Piano Trio, New Zealand Trio, ACO Collective, and numerous other ensembles. Her work is broadcast regularly in Australia and New Zealand, is released on ABC Classics, Kiwi-Pacific, and Trust CDs, and is available from the Australian Music Centre, SouNZ New Zealand Music Centre and Reed Music. In 2013 Maria won ‘Instrumental Work of the Year’ for Tasmania at the Australian Art Music Awards for her septet Ten Suns Ablaze, commissioned by the Australia Ensemble, and in 2017 her double concerto Spirals won the Tasmanian award for ‘Orchestral Work of the Year.’ Her music was commissioned for the documentary film Quoll Farm, aired in 2021.
Maria is an Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music and co-ordinates the composition stream. She was Head of the Conservatorium from 2018-2019. She is regularly involved in mentoring young composers through various composer development programs throughout Australia. She served on the Board of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra from 2009-2018. She has given guest lectures at the University of Houston (USA), Auckland University (New Zealand), Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore), and the University of Melbourne (Australia). In Spring 2013 Maria was Visiting Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. In Fall 2019 Maria was Kerr Composer in Residence at the Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio. She lives in Hobart with her husband, guitarist David Malone, and their two children.
from the composer’s website