Hodkinson, Juliana

She studied musicology and philosophy at King’s College Cambridge and Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield, and holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen on the subject of silence in music and sound art. She studied composition with Per Nørgård and Hans Abrahamsen, and resided for many years in Denmark. She currently lives in Berlin.

Her work ranges from chamber music and intimate semistaged object pieces to large-scale electroacoustic orchestral works, and often involves visual or theatrical elements. Installations, electronic performances, field recordings, samples, text, foley, and soundtracks for fashion videos also figure in her recent work. This set of interests has led her to develop collaborative practices spanning ad-hoc freelance and large institutional frameworks, including with Danish ensemble SCENATET (formerly Ensemble 2000), Australian interdisciplinary arts group Aphids, and Kammerensemble Neue Musik, Berlin.

Her music has been commissioned by many ensembles, festivals and arts organisations worldwide including Konzerthaus Berlin, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Interfilm Festival, Chamber Made Opera, Den Anden Opera, Operanord, SCENATET/Spor Festival/Berliner Festspiele/MaerzMusik, Anima Quartet/SWR, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Mons, SCENATET, Zinc & Copper Works, Lydenskab, Kammerensemble Neue Musik and Esbjerg Ensemble/Klangspuren, Ensemble KNM/Transmediale, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. In 2013 Juliana Hodkinson curated Spor Festival. She has held residencies in Japan (Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation) and Belgium (Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes), with the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark, and in April 2014, she was guest resident at the University of Boğazici, Istanbul. In 2015 she received the Carl Nielsen Award, one of Denmark’s highest artistic accolades.

Selected works: Water like a stone for flute, clarinet, percussion, celesta, harpsichord, guitar, violin 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? for violin and percussion (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 and performer with reel-tape machines, LP and CD players (2002), Maps, installation–performance (2002), Inapparent air and aviary for piccolo, clarinet, trombone, piano, violin and cello (2004), Befall, preludes for four instruments (2005), I greet you a thousand times for orchestra and video (2005), Ikke et hjem for baritone, guitar and playback (2007), We’d just got back from outer space, when there was a knock at the kitchen door for two shengs, large orchestra and playback (2008), Scrape for cello with metal plate (2009), When the wind blows for piano and toys (2009), Transformation, soundtrack (2010), Fish & Fowl, album and stage 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 and electronics (2010), Rückspiegel: eine Hörsituation for baritone, chamber ensemble and youth groups (2011), Versprengung for voice and instruments to 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 electronics (2012), Allerleirauh, for electronics (2012), Prompt, immediate, now / very restrained and cautious for clarinet, percussion, viola, cello and electronics (2013), Ten Minutes Older for 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), Play on for brass and electronics (2015), Im gegenwärtigen Tempo for trio and electronics (2015), ...can modify completely/ in this case/ not that it will make any difference... for electric guitar and orchestra (2015), Lightness for percussion trio (2015).