100學年度第2學期音樂學系教學卓越計劃~
美國辛辛那提大學 Joel Hoffman教授作曲講座
課程名稱：作曲實務探討 (Composition Workshop)
時間:101年5月11日至101年5月23日
歡迎各位老師和同學們到場聽講~
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師資簡介
Born in Vancouver, Canada in 1953, Joel Hoffman received degrees from the University of Wales and the Juilliard School. He is part of a distinguished musical family that includes brothers Gary and Toby, cellist and conductor, and Deborah, harpist. Honors include a major prize from the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bearns Prize of Columbia University, a BMI Award, ASCAP awards since 1977, and three American Music Center grants.
Currently, Hoffman is Professor of Composition at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, where he is also Artistic Director of its annual new music festival, MusicX. During the 1993-94 season, he served as composer-in-residence with the National Chamber Orchestra of Washington, DC and in 1991-92, he held the position of New Music Advisor for the Buffalo Philharmonic. He has been a resident composer at the Rockefeller, Camargo and Hindemith Foundations, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Hoffman is also an active pianist, having appeared as soloist with, among others, the Chicago Symphony, the Belgian Radio and T.V. Orchestra, the Costa Rica National Symphony and the Florida Orchestra.
Hoffman's works draw from such diverse sources as Eastern European folk musics and bebop, and are pervaded by a sense of lyricism and rhythmic vitality. They have been performed by many ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony Brass, the BBC Orchestra of Wales, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, members of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Quartet, the Shanghai Quartet, the Brentano Quartet and the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio. "Self-Portrait with Gebirtig", for cello and orchestra, has been performed in New York, Paris, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, San Jose (Costa Rica), Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Santa Barbara, Kronberg (Germany), and has been recorded by the Berlin Radio Symphony, the Kiev Chamber Orchestra as well as by the Slovenian Radio Symphony in Lubliana. Hoffman’s opera, "The Memory Game", received its first performances in May of 2003. The opera examines the destructive nature of war, as seen from the perspective of Mordechai Gebirtig, the Polish-Jewish sogwriter from Krakow. The opera's libretto was written by Dutch novelist Henk Romijn Meijer. “Brave Old Mordechai” (based on material from the opera) was recently taken on tour in Holland by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Brave Old World.
His music has been frequently heard at summer festivals such as Caramoor, Portogruaro, Korsholm, Evian, St. Nazaire, Newport, Chamber Music Northwest, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival. Some of the organizations that have commissioned Hoffman’s music include the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, the Fromm Foundation, the Cincinnati Symphony, the National Chamber Orchestra, the Washington Camerata and the American Harp Society.
All of Joel Hoffman's music is published, either by his own publishing house Onibatan Music or by RAI Trade, E.C. Schirmer, G. Schirmer and Lyra Music. There are recordings on the CRI, Koch, Stradivarius, Centaur, EMA and Deutsche Welle labels. A disc devoted to Hoffman’s chamber music is available on the Gasparo label. There are two CDs on the Albany label: the three Piano Trios and “Self-Portrait”, which focuses on Hoffman’s cello music.
霍夫曼教授, 於1953年出生在加拿大溫哥華市一個傑出的音樂世家。他的兄弟Gary和Toby分別是大提琴家和指揮家, 姐姐Deborah是豎琴演奏家。霍夫曼教授先後畢業於英國威爾士大學和美國朱麗亞音樂學院。曾榮獲美國藝術文學學會大獎, 哥倫比亞大學伯恩斯獎（Bearns Prize of Columbia. University）和美國BMI音樂獎,並從1977年以來一直榮獲美國作曲家作者與出版社協會(ASCAP)獎。另外，還曾兩次榮獲美國國家藝術基金會資助，三次榮獲美國音樂中心資助。
霍夫曼教授目前任教於美國辛辛那提音樂學院作曲系，同時也是MusicX現代音樂節的藝術總監。他先後在多個組織機構和音樂團體擔任駐團作曲家和音樂顧問。如，1993-94 年，任華盛頓室內管弦樂團駐團作曲家；1991-92年，任水牛城愛樂樂團現代音樂顧問；並先後作為Rockefeller、Camargo、Hindemith基金會, 麥克道威爾文藝營（ MacDowell Colony）、及耶多（Yaddo）文藝社區的常駐作曲家。另外，霍夫曼還是一名較為活躍的鋼琴演奏家,曾與芝加哥交響樂團、比利時廣播交響樂團、哥斯大黎加國家交響樂團和佛羅里達交響樂團合作演出。
在霍夫曼教授的作品中，彌漫著各種各樣的東歐民間音樂和比波普爵士樂的音樂元素，富有鮮活的生命力和抒情性。他的作品曾被芝加哥銅管樂團、威爾士BBC交響樂團、辛辛那提交響樂團、柏林愛樂樂團等多家知名樂團演出；部分作品還被克利夫蘭絃樂四重奏、上海絃樂四重奏、布倫塔諾絃樂四重奏以及Golub-Kaplan-Carr鋼琴三重奏演出。他的代表作"Self-Portrait with Gebirtig"", for cello and orchestra已先後在紐約、巴黎、特拉維夫、洛杉磯、聖約瑟 (哥斯大黎加)、華盛頓、巴爾的摩、匹茲堡、辛辛那提、聖巴巴拉和克羅伯格 (德國)等各大城市上演, 並由柏林廣播交響樂團、基輔室內管弦樂團和盧布亞納市的斯洛文尼亞廣播交響樂團錄製音響。霍夫曼教授的歌劇"The Memory Game"《記憶遊戲》首演於2003年5月，劇本作者是荷蘭小說家Henk Romijn Meijer。在此部歌劇中，作者試圖從戈比爾蒂格的角度來探究其戰爭之破壞本質（戈比爾蒂格是一名來自克拉科夫的波蘭猶太詩人和歌曲作家）。其中，《勇敢的老摩德凱》近期已由阿姆斯特丹交響樂團和勇敢者之家樂團在荷蘭巡演。
霍夫曼教授的作品還在許多國際著名音樂節上演出頻繁。如， Caramoor國際音樂藝術節、Portogruaro音樂節、芬蘭Korsholm音樂節、法國Evian音樂節、St. Nazaire音樂節、美國Newport音樂節、Chamber Music Northwest音樂節、Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival等。另外，他還經常得到很多知名的組織機構和音樂團體的委約。如Berkshire音樂中心、哈佛富隆基金會、辛辛納提交響樂團、國家室內管弦樂團、華盛頓卡摩塔合唱團和美國豎琴協會等。
霍夫曼教授的全部作品現已出版。一部分由他本人的Onibatan音樂出版社出版，其餘分別由RAI Trade、E.C. Schirmer、G. Schirmer和Lyra音樂出版社出版。並且他的作品音像分別由CRI、 Koch、 Stradivarius、 Centaur、 EMA和Deutsche Welle公司發行。霍夫曼的室內樂作品專輯已由Gasparo公司發行，鋼琴三重奏作品由Albany公司發行。在2008年1月，一張全新的霍夫曼作品全集也由Albany唱片公司發行。
詳情請見霍夫曼教授個人網站：
http://www.joelhoffman.net/
