Juliana Hodkinson’s work ranges from chamber music and intimate semistaged object pieces to large-scale electroacoustic orchestral works, and often involves visual or theatrical elements. She has also created installations, and electronic performances embracing field recordings, samples, voice, text, and foley. This set of interests has led her to develop collaborative interdisciplinary practices that embrace both ad-hoc freelance and established institutional frameworks.
Repeated collaborations with groups such as the Danish group Scenatet (formerly Ensemble 2000), the Australian arts collective Aphids, and Kammerensemble Neue Musik from Berlin, have enabled her to evolve a working practice based on the rehearsal processes of chamber music, yet with a flow of multidisciplinary experimentation linking creative development, composition and performance.
She has received commissions from Konzerthaus Berlin, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Interfilm Festival, Chamber Made Opera, Den Anden Opera, Operanord, Spor Festival, Berliner Festspiele, Südwestdeutsche Rundfunk, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Mons, and several ensembles such as Scenatet, Zinc & Copper Works, Lydenskab and Kammerensemble Neue Musik. She has held residencies in Japan (Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation), and Belgium (Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes), with Odense Symphony Orchestra, and in April 2014, she was guest resident at the Bogazici University, Istanbul.

Major works: Water Like a Stone for flute, clarinet, percussion, celesta, harpsichord, guitar and cello (1996), Earth Stood Hard as Iron for viola and guitar (1997), Machine à eau for cello and string orchestra (1998), The Analysis of Mortality for vocal quartet and scissors (1999), What Happens When for soprano, bass recorder and guitar (1999), Some Reasons for Hesitating for large ensemble (1999), Sagte er, dachte ich for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, viola and cello (1999), Why Linger You Trembling in Your Shell?, duo for violin and percussion with eggshells, down feathers and table-tennis balls (1999), All the Time, instrumental theatre for oboe, clavichord, theorbo, electric guitar and assistant lighting matches (2001), Recorder for bass recorder and two tape recorders (2001), All That We Cannot Say, instrumental theatre for oboe, cello and two assistants lighting matches (2001), Harriet’s Song for viola and percussion (2001), Amor de lohn, soundtrack (2002), The Recital Piece for pianist, performer with reel-tape machines, LP and CD players (2002), Maps performance installation (2002), Inapparent Air and Aviary for piccolo, clarinet, trombone, piano, violin and cello (2004), Befall, prelude for four instruments (2005), I Greet You a Thousand Times for orchestra and video (2005), Ikke et hjem for baritone, guitar and audio playback (2007), We’d Just Got Back from Outer Space, When There Was a Knock at the Kitchen Door for two sheng soloists, large orchestra and playback (2008), Scrape for cello, metal plate and electronics (2009), When the Wind Blows for piano with toys and playback (2009), Transformation, soundtrack (2010), Fish & Fowl, album and performance project (2010), Zeit Recht Pflicht Bedürfnis Raum Freude und Sehnsucht for contrabass clarinet and electronics (2010), As We Know for speaker, percussion, violin and cello (2010), Play for brass trio with electronics (2010), Rückspiegel: eine Hörsituation for baritone, chamber ensemble and youth groups (2011), Versprengung for voice and instruments for a film by Ulrich Polster (2011), All My Friends Really Are Superheroes for horn and electronics (2011), Cozy Up, soundtrack (2011), The Priest and the Shell for live electronics (2012), Allerleirauh for live electronics (2012), Prompt, Immediate, Now / Very Restrained and Cautious for clarinet, percussion, viola, cello and electronics (2013), Ten Minutes Older for live electronics (2013), Third-Millennium Heart for trumpet, electric guitar, toy piano, percussion and electronics (2013), Turbulence, opera for soprano, actor and live electronics (2013), Angel View for ensemble and electronics (2014), Is There Something You Can Tell Us for string quartet (2014), Ring a Ring for piano and pocket piano (2014), Paperweight Arcade, performance with electronics (2014).