E-Mail: Brenda.Hutchinson@oberlin.edu Office: TBA Office Phone: TBA Address: 77 W. College St. Oberlin, OH 44074 Visit also: • Brenda Hutchinson's How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? (For Five Pianos and CD Players) Slated for Wednesday, April 14, 8 P.M. in Warner Concert Hall • Photos of a rehearsal for an Oberlin performance of How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? (for five pianos and DC players) Back to: Department of Composition		Brenda Hutchinson Visiting Associate Professor of Composition In March 1999, professor of composition Pauline Oliveros received the SEAMUS99 Award for Lifetime Achievement. (SEAMUS is the acronym for the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, and recipients are recognized for quality and artistic production.) When Oliveros was unable to accept the award in person because she was recording in the King's Tomb in the Great Pryamid, Oliveros asked her former student Brenda Hutchinson to accept the award in her absence. On April 14, Hutchinson presented the award to Oliveros at Oberlin, when, as guest artist, she worked with Composition Seminar students who performed her piece, How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? (for five pianos and DC players). Education: B.F.A. in Music, Carnegie-Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. 1976; M.A. in Music Composition, University of California San Diego. La Jolla, CA. 1979. Honors and Awards: Received honors and awards from the American Composers' Forum, Englehard Foundation, Djerassi Foundation, Pauline Oliveros Foundation, and the NYFA Performance Art/Emergent Forms Fellowship. Brenda Hutchinson watches as William Stevens '99 improvises with the long tube. Professional Affiliations: Curator: Homemade Musical Instruments: Lincoln Center Out Of Doors. New York, NY; Residencies at the Englehard Foundation, Djerassi Foundation, California Arts Council, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Pauline Oliveros Foundation, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Affiliated with Purple Moon Media, Mills College Music Department, Exploratorium/SF Art Institute, California College of Arts and Crafts, Studio PASS, NYC. Commissions: "How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?" commissioned by Meet The Composer for Harvestworks; "Every Dream Has Its Number" commissioned by NEA Media Arts; "Violet Flame" commissioned by Meet The Composer / Readers' Digest; "Listen For A Change" commissioned by NEA InterArts; "Voices of Reason" commissioned by NEA Music; "Delicate Lights" commissioned by NYSCA; "Norris" commissioned by New Music America. A rehearsal of Brenda Hutchinson's How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Publications and Recordings: Numerous publications of articles, CDs and tapes. Recorded on Tellus and Varese Sarabande labels.