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Nicolas Hodges Studies Project was a project to commission 12 piano studies from 12 different international composers. The studies were presented over the period 2010-2014.
Content
The twelve studies are:
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Mark Andre
Mark Andre (born 10 May 1964) is a French composer living in Germany. He was known as "Marc André," his birth name, until 2007, when he formally revised the spelling. He lives in Berlin. Andre's compositions ''durch'' (2006), ''...auf... III'' (2 ...
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Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and ...
: Quirl
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Michael Finnissy
Michael Peter Finnissy (born 17 March 1946) is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue. An immensely prolific composer, his music is "notable for its dramatic urgency and expressive immediacy".
Although he rejects the label, he is often r ...
: ''Preambule zu "Carnaval", gefolgt von der ersten und zweiten symphonischen Etüde nach Schumann''
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Luca Francesconi
Luca Francesconi (born 17 March 1956) is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, then with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio.
Early years
Luca Francesconi was born in Milan. His father was a painter who edited ''Il C ...
: Etude No. 2
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Beat Furrer
Beat Furrer (born 6 December 1954) is a Swiss-born Austrian composer and conductor. He has served as professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 1991. He was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2018 ...
: Studie Nr. 1
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Toshio Hosokawa
is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio ''Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima'' ...
: Study No. 1
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Isabel Mundry
Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer.
Life and work
Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern ( Germany) in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin T ...
: Study (withdrawn for revision)
* Brice Pauset: Etude No. 1
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Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Anthony Rzewski ( ; April 13, 1938 – June 26, 2021) was an American composer and pianist, considered to be one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. His major compositions, which often incorporate social an ...
: Etude
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Rebecca Saunders
Rebecca Saunders (born 19 December 1967) is a London-born composer who lives and works freelance in Berlin. In a 2017 ''Classic Voice'' poll of the greatest works of art music
Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated mu ...
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* Bent Sørensen: ''Und die Sonne geht auf (Choralstudie)'' - became part of Twelve Nocturnes (2000-2014)
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Charles Wuorinen
Charles Peter Wuorinen (; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He performed his works and other 20th-century music as pianist and conductor.
He composed more than ...
: Etude (for chords and dynamic balance)
History
The pianist
Nicolas Hodges
Nicolas Hodges (born 1970, in London) is a pianist living in Germany.
Early years
Nicolas Hodges was born into a musical family. His mother sang in the BBC Singers, including under Boulez in works by Nono. His father was a keen amateur musician, ...
initiated the project in an attempt to provide piano students with alternatives to the Ligeti Etudes, which have been widely performed in the years since the composer's death.Luxemourger Wort (newspaper) 14 June 2010 The composers were chosen with a view to providing as much range as possible within contemporary classical music.
The works were commissioned in groups. First those by Finnissy, Francesconi, Mundry, Rzewski were commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg and then first performed there by Nicolas Hodges in June 2010. Then those by Andre, Furrer, Hosokawa, Pauset, Sorenson and Wuorinen were commission by the Busoni Competition, Bolzano and then first performed in the Busoni Festival by Nicolas Hodges on 26 August 2011. The study by Saunders was premiered by Nicolas Hodges at the Salzburg Biennale 2013. Finally, the study by Ferneyhough was commissioned by SWR Eclat Festival, and premiered there by Hodges in February 2014.
Recordings
So far only the works by Andre, Ferneyhough, Furrer, Hosokawa and Wuorinen have been recorded.