Brian Hulse
Composer/Theorist
Composer/Theorist
Brian Hulse is a professor of music theory and
composition at the College of William & Mary (since
Fall '06). He's received degrees from the University of
Utah (B.M.), University of Illinois (M.M.), and Harvard
University (Ph.D). He has studied composition with Mario
Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Martin Boykan, Salvitore
Martirano, and Morris Rosenzweig. Hulse has written
works for chamber and choral ensembles, as well as
several chamber operas. He has received awards from
BMI, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Harvard University,
and other organizations. Noted ensembles which have
performed and/or commissioned his music include
Duo46, Speculum Musicae, 20th Century Unlimited,
Empyrean Ensemble, the Rire-Woodbury Dance Company,
the Harvard Glee Club, and the HBO series "The
Sopranos." Hulse was a fellow at the Wellesley
Composers Conference, served as Composer-in-
Residence for Intermezzo: the New England Chamber
Opera Series, and was a Visiting Composer at Eastern
Mediterranean University in Cyprus. A CD of his music
was recently released on Albany Records, featuring
Duo46, Nathanael May, Lisa Cella, and Thomas
Rosenkranz. He is currently writing a piece entitled
'Pseudoragas I' for the NYC based ensemble Flexible
Music.
Hulse's theoretic interests include repetition,
temporality, intuition, Eastern philosophy, and the
writings of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. He has
published in Perspectives of New Music, the Dutch
Journal of Music Theory, and GAMUT. He has delivered
papers in various scholarly venues on topics such as
repetition, Bergson's concept of the virtual,
Minimalism, tonality, and improvisation. Recent
conference talks were given at the Prince Klaus
Conservatory in the Netherlands, King's College
London, and at the First International Conference on
Minimalism in Bangor, Wales. Most recently Hulse
delivered papers entitled 'Of Genre, System, and
Process: Music Theory in a Global Sonorous Space’ at
the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz,
Austria, and 'Divine Ecstasy in Rhythm & Tone: Some
Sonorous Details in the Music of Nustrat Fateh Ali
Khan' at the Society for Ethnomusicology national
conference, Wesleyan University, CT.
He is currently editing a book with Nick Nesbitt
(University of Aberdeen, Scotland) entitled 'Radical
Difference: Deleuzian Perspectives on the Theory and
Philosophy of Music' in which he contributes a chapter
called 'Thinking Musical Difference.' The book will be
published by Ashgate.
Before landing at William & Mary Hulse held positions
at Wellesley College and Christopher Newport
University. In the summer he directs the composition
program at the Soundscape Festival in Pavia, Italy.
(www.soundscape-pavia.com).
composition at the College of William & Mary (since
Fall '06). He's received degrees from the University of
Utah (B.M.), University of Illinois (M.M.), and Harvard
University (Ph.D). He has studied composition with Mario
Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Martin Boykan, Salvitore
Martirano, and Morris Rosenzweig. Hulse has written
works for chamber and choral ensembles, as well as
several chamber operas. He has received awards from
BMI, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Harvard University,
and other organizations. Noted ensembles which have
performed and/or commissioned his music include
Duo46, Speculum Musicae, 20th Century Unlimited,
Empyrean Ensemble, the Rire-Woodbury Dance Company,
the Harvard Glee Club, and the HBO series "The
Sopranos." Hulse was a fellow at the Wellesley
Composers Conference, served as Composer-in-
Residence for Intermezzo: the New England Chamber
Opera Series, and was a Visiting Composer at Eastern
Mediterranean University in Cyprus. A CD of his music
was recently released on Albany Records, featuring
Duo46, Nathanael May, Lisa Cella, and Thomas
Rosenkranz. He is currently writing a piece entitled
'Pseudoragas I' for the NYC based ensemble Flexible
Music.
Hulse's theoretic interests include repetition,
temporality, intuition, Eastern philosophy, and the
writings of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. He has
published in Perspectives of New Music, the Dutch
Journal of Music Theory, and GAMUT. He has delivered
papers in various scholarly venues on topics such as
repetition, Bergson's concept of the virtual,
Minimalism, tonality, and improvisation. Recent
conference talks were given at the Prince Klaus
Conservatory in the Netherlands, King's College
London, and at the First International Conference on
Minimalism in Bangor, Wales. Most recently Hulse
delivered papers entitled 'Of Genre, System, and
Process: Music Theory in a Global Sonorous Space’ at
the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz,
Austria, and 'Divine Ecstasy in Rhythm & Tone: Some
Sonorous Details in the Music of Nustrat Fateh Ali
Khan' at the Society for Ethnomusicology national
conference, Wesleyan University, CT.
He is currently editing a book with Nick Nesbitt
(University of Aberdeen, Scotland) entitled 'Radical
Difference: Deleuzian Perspectives on the Theory and
Philosophy of Music' in which he contributes a chapter
called 'Thinking Musical Difference.' The book will be
published by Ashgate.
Before landing at William & Mary Hulse held positions
at Wellesley College and Christopher Newport
University. In the summer he directs the composition
program at the Soundscape Festival in Pavia, Italy.
(www.soundscape-pavia.com).
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