Ted Hearne

Ted Hearne
Birth name	Edward Hearne
Born	1982 (age 33–34) Chicago, Illinois
Genres	Contemporary classical, Avant-garde music, Experimental
Occupation(s)	Composer, Conductor, Vocalist
Instruments	Vocalist
Years active	2000–present
Labels	New Amsterdam Records, New Focus Recordings
Associated acts	Katrina Ballads, R WE WHO R WE
Website	www.tedhearne.com

Ted Hearne (born 1982) is an American composer, singer and conductor. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.^[1]

Biography

Ted Hearne was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he was a member of the Chicago Children's Choir. 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]

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,^[6] J.G. Thirlwell, with whom he created chamber-music arrangements of Thirlwell's electronic project Manorexia,^[7] and electronic/noise musician Philip White, whom with he performs as R We Who R We.^[8] Hearne has also worked with jazz musician Rene Marie, the JACK Quartet, harpist/composer Zeena Parkins^[9] and conductor Alan Pierson,^[10] and hIs music has been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), (le) Poisson Rouge, Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw, and Carnegie Hall.^[11]

Hearne is the recipient of the 2009 Gaudeamus Prize in Music Composition,^[12] and the 2014 New Voices Residency from publisher Boosey and Hawkes and the San Francisco Symphony.^[13] 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,^[14] and for its often overtly political content.^[15] The New York Times has noted Hearne for his “topical, politically sharp-edged works,” ^[13] and has called his compositional style “nuanced, elliptical and elusive.” ^[16]

Oratorio 2008 “Katrina Ballads” for mixed chamber ensemble and five singers 2014 “The Source” for mixed chamber ensemble and four singers Large Ensemble 2008 “Patriot” for orchestra 2010 “Is It Dirty” for two singers and chamber orchestra 2010 “Build a Room” for trumpet and orchestra 2011 “Partition” for chorus and orchestra 2011 “Word for Word” for orchestra 2012 “Law of Mosaics” for string orchestra 2013 "Stem” for orchestra 2013 “You’re Causing Quite A Disturbance” for orchestra and singer (with Erykah Badu) Solo Music 2010 “Nobody’s” for solo violin 2011 “Parlor Diplomacy” for solo piano

Chamber music 2004 “Once the Search” for viola, voice, percussion and piano 2005 “One of us, One of them” for piano and percussion 2007 “Cordavi and Fig” for 13 instruments 2008 “Vessels” for violin, viola and piano 2008 “Snowball” for 8 instruments 2009 “Thaw” for percussion quartet 2011 “Licorice Men” for electric guitar quartet 2011 “Cutest Little Arbitrage” for 2 saxophones, trombone and rhythm section 2012 “Crispy Gentlemen” for flute, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion 2014 “Furtive Movements” for cello and percussion Choral/Vocal 2006 “Warning Song” for voice and cello 2007 “I Remember” for three sopranos 2008 “Mass for St. Mary’s” for mixed chorus 2010 “Intimacy and Resistance” for voice and piano 2010 “Protection” for voice and piano 2010 “Privilege” for mixed chorus 2012 “Ripple” for mixed chorus 2014 “Consent” for 16 singers 2014 “Sound From the Bench” for mixed chorus, two electric guitars and percussion

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,^[17] and performed at the Ecstatic Music Festival as part of Timo Andres’s Work Songs.^[18] Time Out Chicago has called Hearne a “vocal hellion.”^[8] 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.^[9][19][20]

Awards

• 2009 Gaudeamus Prize^[21]
• 2009 and 2013 Charles Ives Prize^[22]
• 2009 and 2012 Morton Gould Young Composer Award^[23][24]
• 2013 Music Alive Residency Award^[25]
• 2014 New Voices Residency for Composers^[26]

Recordings

• 2010 – "Katrina Ballads" (New Amsterdam Records)
• 2010 – J.G. Thirwell: “Manorexia: “The Mesopelagic Wars” (Tzadik Records)^[27]
• 2013 – "R WE WHO R WE" (New Focus Recordings) with Philip White^[28]
• 2014 – “The Law of Mosaics” (Crier Records) with Andrew Norman and Far Cry^[29]
• 2016 – "Outlanders" (New Amsterdam Records)

References

1. "Ted Hearne". Philipedia. LA Phil. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
2. Rosenblum, Charles (2007-06-02). "A Deeply Moving Tribute". Charleston Post and Courier.
3. Kozinn, Allan (2010-08-27). "A Flood of Songs Washing Over a City". The New York Times.
4. Midgette, Anne (17 December 2010). "The Top 10 Classical Albums of 2010". New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
5. Ramey, Corinne (21 October 2014). "WikiLeaks Inspires an Operatic Source at Brooklyn Academy of Music". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
6. Stewart, Henry (10 June 2013). "Erykah Badu, Serious Composer?". L Magazine. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
7. "Manorexia Live". Venture Bros Blog. 1 Jan 2011. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
8. Armbrust, Doyle (7 Feb 2013). "Noise artists pervert pop music". Time Out Chicago. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
9. Woolfe, Zachary (11 September 2012). "Where words are the notes". New York Times. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
10. Ratliff, Ben (9 June 2013). "Minimalist and Rich, in the Space between Funk and Classical". New York Times. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
11. Woolfe, Zachary (12 April 2011). "Turning 150, but Youthful as Ever". New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
12. "Ted Hearne wins Gaudeamus Prize". NewMusicBox.
13. Kozinn, Allan (7 April 2014). "Ted Hearne awarded New Voices Residency for composers". New York Times. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
14. Berger, Kevin (14 April 2013). "Brooklyn festival samples new classical music of the borough". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
15. Walls, Seth Colter (22 May 2013). "Summer Music Guide: Erykah Badu and the Brooklyn Phil Team Up". The Village Voice.
16. Woolfe, Zachary (2014-10-24). "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. And With Reason.". The New York Times.
17. Johnson, Daniel (28 April 2012). "Jacob Cooper Finds Grace in Diaphanous Slow Motion". New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
18. Robson, Britt (18 March 2014). "Timo Andres goes for the beauty". Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
19. Kozinn, Allan (21 September 2010). "Green Light for Experimentalism: Tweaking Conventions and Bending Rules". New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
20. Kozinn, Allan (10 December 2008). "Reclaiming a Poet: Old Words, New Music". New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
21. http://www.muziekweek.nl/organisatie/archief/}
22. "The Charles Ives Awards". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
23. "The 2012 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Awards". ASCAP. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
24. "The 2009 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Awards". ASCAP. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
25. "2013 MUSIC ALIVE RESIDENCY AWARDEES". New Music USA. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
26. Kozinn, Allan. "Ted Hearne Awarded New Voices Residency for Composers". ArtsBeat. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
27. "Manorexia discography". Foetus. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
28. "catalog". New Focus Recordings. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
29. "catalog". Crier Records. Retrieved 1 February 2015.

External links

• official website.