Ted Hearne Explained

Ted Hearne
Birth Name:Edward Hearne
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois
Instrument:Vocalist
Genre:Contemporary classical, Avant-garde music, Experimental
Associated Acts:Katrina Ballads, R WE WHO R WE
Occupation:Composer, Conductor, Vocalist
Years Active:2000–present
Label:New Amsterdam Records, New Focus Recordings

Ted Hearne (born 1982) is an American composer, singer and conductor. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.[1]

Biography

Ted Hearne was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he was a member of the Chicago Children's Choir and graduate of Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. He moved to New York in 2000 and has attended the Manhattan School of Music and Yale School of Music. Hearne's oratorio “Katrina Ballads”, an hour-long work about the media’s response to Hurricane Katrina received widespread acclaim after it was premiered at Charleston's Spoleto Festival in 2007.[2] [3] [4] His oratorio The Source, about Chelsea Manning, sets text from leaked military documents and was premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[5] His third oratorio Place, written in collaboration with Saul Williams and the director Patricia McGregor, was premiered digitally in 2020 as Place: Quarantine Edition.[6] The album version of Place was also released in 2020 and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.[7]

Hearne has been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, A Far Cry, pianist Timo Andres, singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane and other musicians. Hearne has become known for writing in a wide range of contemporary-music styles, and has collaborated with a diverse group of musicians, most notably Erykah Badu, with whom he created an evening-length piece for Badu to perform with the Brooklyn Philharmonic,[8] J.G. Thirlwell, with whom he created chamber-music arrangements of Thirlwell's electronic project Manorexia,[9] and electronic/noise musician Philip White, whom with he performs as R We Who R We.[10] Hearne has also worked with jazz musician Rene Marie, poet Dorothea Lasky, the JACK Quartet, harpist/composer Zeena Parkins[11] and conductor Alan Pierson,[12] and his music has been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), (Le) Poisson Rouge, Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw, and Carnegie Hall.[13]

Hearne is the recipient of the 2009 Gaudeamus Prize in Music Composition,[14] and the 2014 New Voices Residency from publisher Boosey and Hawkes and the San Francisco Symphony.[15] In 2018 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in music.[16] He is currently on the Composition faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music.

Concert works

Hearne's music is known for juxtaposing diverse styles,[17] and for its often overtly political content.[18] The New York Times has noted Hearne for his “topical, politically sharp-edged works,” [15] and has called his compositional style “nuanced, elliptical and elusive.” [19]

Oratorio

Large Ensemble

Solo Music

Chamber music

Choral/Vocal

Performer and conductor

Hearne has performed as a vocalist in several of his own projects, including Katrina Ballads and R WE WHO R WE, and has also performed in works by other contemporary composers. He played the role of Justin Timberlake in Jacob Cooper's opera Timberbrit,[20] and performed at the Ecstatic Music Festival as part of Timo Andres’s Work Songs.[21] Time Out Chicago has called Hearne a "vocal hellion."[10] He is known for his extreme range and for mixing vocal techniques from different styles, including abrupt register changes, rapid speaking, screaming, rapping, falsetto and crooning.

Hearne is an active conductor of contemporary music. He has worked as a conductor with many ensembles in New York, including the Red Light Ensemble, Bang on a Can, Wet Ink Ensemble, Ne(x)tworks and the International Contemporary Ensemble.[11] [22] [23]

Awards

Recordings

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ted Hearne. Philipedia. LA Phil. May 5, 2014.
  2. News: A Deeply Moving Tribute . Charleston Post and Courier . Charles . Rosenblum . June 2, 2007.
  3. News: A Flood of Songs Washing Over a City . The New York Times . Allan . Kozinn . August 27, 2010.
  4. News: The Top 10 Classical Albums of 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110214063010/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/17/AR2010121702920.html . dead . February 14, 2011 . Midgette. Anne. December 17, 2010. New York Times. May 10, 2014.
  5. News: WikiLeaks Inspires an Operatic Source at Brooklyn Academy of Music . Ramey. Corinne. October 21, 2014. Wall Street Journal. February 1, 2015.
  6. News: Place: Quarantine Edition. Vimeo. June 7, 2020.
  7. News: Grammy Awards Nominations 2021: The Complete List. Variety. Willman. Chris. November 24, 2020.
  8. News: Erykah Badu, Serious Composer?. Stewart. Henry. June 10, 2013. L Magazine. March 14, 2014.
  9. Web site: Manorexia Live. Venture Bros Blog . January 1, 2011. March 14, 2014.
  10. News: Noise artists pervert pop music. Armbrust. Doyle. February 7, 2013. Time Out Chicago. May 4, 2014.
  11. News: Where words are the notes. Woolfe. Zachary. September 11, 2012. New York Times. May 5, 2014.
  12. News: Minimalist and Rich, in the Space between Funk and Classical. Ratliff. Ben. June 9, 2013. New York Times. March 14, 2014.
  13. News: Turning 150, but Youthful as Ever . Woolfe. Zachary. April 12, 2011. New York Times. May 1, 2014.
  14. Web site: Ted Hearne wins Gaudeamus Prize. September 14, 2009 . NewMusicBox.
  15. News: Ted Hearne awarded New Voices Residency for composers. Kozinn. Allan. April 7, 2014. New York Times. May 5, 2014.
  16. Web site: 2018 Pulitzer Prizes.
  17. News: Brooklyn festival samples new classical music of the borough. https://web.archive.org/web/20130627121725/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/14/entertainment/la-et-cm-brooklyn-festival-los-angeles-philharmonic-20130414 . live . June 27, 2013 . Berger. Kevin. April 14, 2013. Los Angeles Times. May 2, 2014.
  18. News: Summer Music Guide: Erykah Badu and the Brooklyn Phil Team Up . Walls. Seth Colter. May 22, 2013. The Village Voice.
  19. News: Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. And With Reason. . The New York Times . Zachary . Woolfe . October 24, 2014.
  20. News: Jacob Cooper Finds Grace in Diaphanous Slow Motion. Johnson. Daniel. April 28, 2012. New York Times. May 10, 2014.
  21. News: Timo Andres goes for the beauty. Robson. Britt. March 18, 2014. Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
  22. News: Green Light for Experimentalism: Tweaking Conventions and Bending Rules. Kozinn. Allan. September 21, 2010. New York Times. May 10, 2014.
  23. News: Reclaiming a Poet: Old Words, New Music. Kozinn. Allan. December 10, 2008. New York Times. May 10, 2014.
  24. Web site: Jubileum .
  25. Web site: The Charles Ives Awards. American Academy of Arts and Letters. July 29, 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160131113705/http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Ives. January 31, 2016.
  26. Web site: The 2012 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Awards. ASCAP. May 5, 2014.
  27. Web site: The 2009 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Awards. ASCAP. May 5, 2014.
  28. Web site: 2013 MUSIC ALIVE RESIDENCY AWARDEES. New Music USA. July 29, 2013.
  29. Web site: Ted Hearne Awarded New Voices Residency for Composers. Kozinn. Allan. ArtsBeat. April 7, 2014. March 2, 2016.
  30. Web site: Manorexia discography . Foetus . March 14, 2014.
  31. Web site: catalog . New Focus Recordings . April 2, 2014.
  32. Web site: catalog . Crier Records . February 1, 2015.
  33. Web site: Ted Hearne "The Source". October 16, 2018. New Amsterdam Records.
  34. Web site: Ted Hearne "Outlanders". January 15, 2016. New Amsterdam Records.
  35. Web site: Ted Hearne "Sound from the Bench". February 13, 2017. Cantaloupe Music.
  36. Web site: Ted Hearne "Hazy Heart Pump". New Focus Recordings.
  37. Web site: Ted Hearne "Place". January 11, 2021. New Amsterdam Records.

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