Jackson Hill

Jackson Hill (born 1941 in Birmingham, Alabama), is an American composer primarily of symphonic, ensemble, and vocal music.

Biography Hill was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D. in musicology in 1970). A composer from the age of 14, he studied composition with Iain Hamilton at Duke University (1964–66) and Roger Hannay (1967-68). He has served as a visiting scholar and choral assistant at Exeter College, Oxford, and as a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He studied Buddhist chant as a Fulbright Fellow in Japan in the 1970s, and traditional Japanese music has been a strong influence in his work.

He has received numerous awards and prizes for his music, which includes choral, solo, and chamber music, as well as a chamber opera and three symphonies. Hill’s music has been widely performed in Europe, Asia and the Americas, including performances at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Chautauqua, and Edinburgh festivals. Recent commissions have come from The Fitzwilliam String Quartet (UK), Lichfield Cathedral, Chanticleer, the King's Singers, New York Polyphony, and the Three Choirs Festival (UK). His composition Voices of Autumn was part of Chanticleer’s Grammy nomination in 2003. He taught at Duke University (1966-1968) and 1968-2008 at Bucknell University, where he served as Associate Dean, Presidential Professor, and Chair of the Department of Music.

Compositions Hill is internationally known for his contribution to the vocal idiom. Principal works include:

Music for orchestra Variations for Orchestra (1964) Mosaics (1965) Paganini Set (1973) Ceremonies of Spheres (1973) Sangraal (1977) Chambers (1988) Toccata Nipponica (1989) Secrets (Himitsu) (1990) Symphony No. 1 (Sinfonia Nipponica) (1990) Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonia Canonica) (1996) Symphony No. 3 (Sinfonia Romantica) (1997)

Ensemble music Serenade (1970) flute / violin / cello / piano Remembered Landscape (1984) violin / viola / cello / piano Tholos (1991) flute / oboe / clar / violin / cello / piano / percussion Trio da Camera (1993) flute / oboe / cello Threnody (2005) horn / string quartet Ghosts (2010) string quartet

Music for solo voice Love Parting (1987) song cycle for voice / piano The Streams of Love (1989) voice / viola / piano Long hidden deep in winter's keeping (2001) voice / string quartet Philomel (2002) voice / recorder / cello / harp El Duelo ("The Mourning") (2010) tenor / string quartet The Silent Ground (2010) voice / piano

Church music with English text By Water and the Word (1995) SATB / org The Gifts of the Spirit (1996) SATB / org Praise, O Praise the Lord (1997) SATB / org A Song of Pilgrimage (1997) SATB How Shall the Young (2000) SATB / org The St. Chad Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Lichfield Service) (2003) Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life (2010) SATB / org

Church music with Latin text O Salutaris (1973) Tantum Ergo (1974) Peters Edition Missa Brevis (1974) SATB, Peters Edition Three Motets (1977) SATB Peters edition Hodie Christus Natus Est (1982) SATB Sacris sollemniis (1992) SATB Populus Sion, ecce Dominus (1994) SATB

Choral concert music Voices of Autumn (1982) SATB O Light Invisible (1994) SATB In Winter's Keeping (2001) Remembered Love (2004) AATBBB When spring is born at last (2004) SATB Summer Dreams (2006) SSAATTBB A Haunted Melancholy (2008) SSAATBB Ma fin est mon commencement (2009) ATBB Still, in Remembrance (Elegy for 9/11) (2011) SSAATTBB To Hold the Light (2013) SSAATTBB No Traveler More Blest (2014) SATB Wings of Thy Dark Soul (2014) SATB