Craig Hultgren, cellist
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
PROGRAM
Orbital Variations for solo cello (2016) ... Shawn Crouch
Beat for cello with electronics (2016) ... David Bohn
Incendiary Rhetoric a politically inspired rant for cello and speaking cellist (2016) ... Alan Schmitz
Improvisation for amplified cello (2018) ... Craig Hultgren
Ce cE ceLLo for cello and sound file (2000) ... Joe L. Alexander
Arguments with Myself for solo cello (2009) ... Todd Gabriel
Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre for cello and fixed media (2017) ... Charles Mason
BIOGRAPHY
Cellist
Craig Hultgren remains active in new
music, the newly creative arts, and the avant-garde. Recently leaving
Birmingham after more than 30 years as a member of the Alabama Symphony, he now
resides outside of Decorah, Iowa as the farmer-cellist.
The
New York Classical Review commented that he, "…played with impressive poise and
sensitivity…" for Dorothy Hindman's 2016 chamber music retrospective at
Carnegie Hall. At this point, almost 300 works have been created for him. A
recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts,
he was a member for many years of Thámyris, a contemporary chamber music ensemble
in Atlanta. He is a founding member of Luna Nova, a new music ensemble with a
large repertoire of performances available as podcast downloads on iTunes.
Hultgren is featured in three solo CD recordings including The
Electro-Acoustic Cello Book on Living Artist Recordings. For ten years, he
produced the Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial, an international competition
that highlighted the best new compositions for the instrument.
Hultgren
taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Alabama School of Fine
Arts, Wartburg College (Iowa) and Birmingham-Southern College where he directed
the BSC New Music Ensemble. He is a founding member and former President of the
Birmingham Art Music Alliance and was on the Board of Directors of the
Metropolitan Youth Orchestras of Birmingham and their Scrollworks program.
Currently, he is Vice President of the Oneota Valley Community Orchestra Board
of Directors in Decorah, and he will become Chair of the Board of Directors for
the Iowa Composers Forum in 2019.
MASTERCLASS on 10/16/2018 at 4:30 pm in room 219.
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| Masterclass with Hultgren |
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| Masterclass with Hultgren |
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| Hultgren speaking to a freshman theory class |
