Robert Hutchinson

Associate Professor, music theory and composition

Phone: 253.879.2686
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Robert Hutchinson (PhD 1998 University of Oregon) teaches music theory, orchestration, analysis, counterpoint, improvisation, and composition.  "Puget Sound provides the ideal setting for working with highly motivated students individually and in small groups.  Students know I care about providing them with skills they can use after graduation, whether they're performers, educators, or scholars," said Professor Hutchinson. 

Most recently Professor Hutchinson completed a commission, Suite for Wind Quartet premiered in May 2006 by the Auburn Chamber Winds (of the Auburn Symphony Orchestra).  The Northwest Sinfonietta commissioned and premiered Fantasia on Themes of Mozart in March 2006.  Hutchinson is currently working on a commission from the Tacoma Concert Band, to be premiered in February 2007.  In 2005, the Musser Overture was premiered at the retirement concert for Director of Bands, Robert Musser.  The Tacoma Youth Symphony commissioned and premiered From the Sea to the Stars in 2004.  Hutchinson's Jeux des Enfants was selected by the Charles Ives Center for American Music for a June 2002 premiere by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.  His composition Dancing on the Strand for wind ensemble was presented at the Symposium 29 for New Band Music in Richmond, Virginia in 2004, and received an honorable mention in the competition for ASCAP's 2004 Rudolph Nissim Award.  Both Jeux des Enfants and Dancing on the Strand were selected for performance at the Society of Composers National Conference in Oklahoma in 2004.  In 2002, The Slow Voyage Through Night for symphonic band was performed at the Society of Composers' National Conference in Akron, Ohio.  The Oregon Festival of American Music, Oregon Wind Ensemble and the Oregon Festival Choirs commissioned Liberatio in Morte for solo baritone voice, children's choir and wind ensemble, for a February 2000 premiere.  His Trio for flute, clarinet and marimba was premiered in July 1998 as part of the American Milestones series at the Oregon Bach Festival.  In 1997, Hutchinson won the Third Angle New Music Ensemble's Young Composers Competition.  Portland-based Third Angle performed his Three Character Pieces for mixed chamber ensemble in Portland and Salem in February 1998.  Professor Hutchinson is also a jazz bassist and has performed with trumpeter Bobby Shew and guitarist Mary Osborne, among others.

For additional information view Dr. Hutchinson's website