Dorothy Hindman (1966- )
Critics
have called Dorothy Hindman’s 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.COMPOSITIONS Hindman Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre
Beijing, orchestra or youth orchestra (1989)
Soliloquy, clarinet (1991)
Forward Looking Back, suite, piano (1991-92)
[Turning Apples; Slicing Screws; Concentricity; Implicit Wish; Release; Wanting - Night Music; Linger]
Fury's Chalice, wind octet (2 fl, 2 ob, cl, bass cl, hn, bsn) (1992)
Beyond the Cloud of Unknowing, marimba (1992, rev. 1993)
Chemistry, chamber orchestra (12 players: fl, ob, cl, hn, tpt, vibraphone, pf, 2 vlns, vla, vc, db) (1993)
I Have Heard..., chorus (1993, arr. 1996)
From Censer Smoke..., soprano, flute, violin, guitar and marimba (1994)
"drowningXnumbers", amplified cello (1994-95)
Dances, clarinet, marimba and piano (1996) [in three movements]
Echo, horn (1996)
fin de cycle, piano and tape (1996)
Three Songs of Reminiscence, tenor and piano (1997) [American Plantagenet; Moss Beach 1946; Aria]
Trembling, flute (1998)
Resurrection, an Easter choral anthem, chorus (1998)
Incarnation, a Christmas choral anthem, chorus (1998)
Pandora's Box, youth opera, children's chorus and piano (1999)
Magic City, orchestra (1999)
With Sighs too Deep for Words..., cello concerto, cello and orchestra (2000)
Louise: the Story of a Magdalen, opera (2002)
Jerusalem Windows, violin, cello and piano (2002)
Setting Century, orchestra (2003) [in three movements]
Drift, saxophone quartet (2003)
Taut, guitar quartet (2003)
Strata, orchestra (2004)
Time Management, double bass (2004)
Needlepoint, guitar (2004)
The Steinway Preludes, piano (2004) [Sparkling; Pearly; Velvety; Brittle; Thunderous]
Tonal Music, cell phones (2004)
Lost in Translation, soprano saxophone and piano (2005)
Monumenti, violin and cello (2005)
centro, violin and piano (2005)
Scintille, orchestra (2006)
Is this then a touch?, baritone and piano (2006)
Tapping the Furnace, percussion solo (2006)
Italian Dreams, soundfile for a video (2006)
Three Small Gestures, violin and guitar (2006)
Nine Churches, guitar quartet and chamber orchestra (2006-07)
The Pillow Book, song cycle, mezzo-soprano, saxophone, violin, cello and piano (2009)
WORKS BY GENRE Hindman Links ~ top of page ~
Dramatic/Theater
Pandora's Box, youth opera, children's chorus and piano (1999)
Louise: the Story of a Magdalen, opera (2002)
Orchestra
Beijing, orchestra or youth orchestra (1989)
Magic City, orchestra (1999)
Setting Century, orchestra (2003) [in three movements]
Strata, orchestra (2004)
Scintille, orchestra (2006)
Soloist(s) w/Orchestra
With Sighs too Deep for Words..., cello concerto, cello and orchestra (2000)
Nine Churches, guitar quartet and chamber orchestra (2006-07)
Choral
I Have Heard..., chorus (1993, arr. 1996)
Resurrection, an Easter choral anthem, chorus (1998)
Incarnation, a Christmas choral anthem, chorus (1998)
Chamber
Fury's Chalice, wind octet (2 fl, 2 ob, cl, bass cl, hn, bsn) (1992)
Chemistry, chamber orchestra (12 players: fl, ob, cl, hn, tpt, vibraphone, pf, 2 vlns, vla, vc, db) (1993)
Dances, clarinet, marimba and piano (1996) [in three movements]
Jerusalem Windows, violin, cello and piano (2002)
Drift, saxophone quartet (2003)
Taut, guitar quartet (2003)
Tonal Music, cell phones (2004)
Lost in Translation, soprano saxophone and piano (2005)
Monumenti, violin and cello (2005)
centro, violin and piano (2005)
Three Small Gestures, violin and guitar (2006)
Solo Instrument
Soliloquy, clarinet (1991)
Beyond the Cloud of Unknowing, marimba (1992, rev. 1993)
"drowningXnumbers", amplified cello (1994-95)
Echo, horn (1996)
Trembling, flute (1998)
Time Management, double bass (2004)
Needlepoint, guitar (2004)
Tapping the Furnace, percussion solo (in progress)
Piano
Forward Looking Back, suite, piano (1991-92)
[Turning Apples; Slicing Screws; Concentricity; Implicit Wish; Release; Wanting - Night Music; Linger]
fin de cycle, piano and tape (1996)
The Steinway Preludes, piano (2004) [Sparkling; Pearly; Velvety; Brittle; Thunderous]
Vocal
From Censer Smoke..., soprano, flute, violin, guitar and marimba (1994)
Three Songs of Reminiscence, tenor and piano (1997) [American Plantagenet; Moss Beach 1946; Aria]
Is this then a touch?, baritone and piano (2006)
The Pillow Book, mezzo-soprano, saxophone, violin, cello and piano (2009)
Incidental/Film/Video
Italian Dreams, soundfile for a video (2006)
Electronic
fin de cycle, piano and tape (1996)
HINDMAN LINKS Works by Genre ~ top of page ~
Composer's website
Hindman @ American Composers Forum
Hindman @ Associated Colleges of the South
Hindman @ Birmingham-Southern College
Hindman @ Facebook
Hindman @ Karen Bentley
Hindman @ MySpace.com Blogs
Hindman @ MySpaceMusic
Hindman @ OrchestraList
Hindman @ Pytheas' Composers in Selected States - Alabama
Hindman @ Society of Composers
Hindman @ Twitter
Hindman @ Vox Novus
Streaming Audio
Hindman @ last.fm
Hindman @ gcast.com - podcasts
Recordings
Hindman @ ArkivMusic
Hindman @ ClassicsOnline
Hindman @ YouTube
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