Bruce Hobson (2)

Bruce Hobson -- American Composer, jazz trumpeter and pianist Studied music at Columbia University and the New England Conservatory. Founding member of the Guild of Composers, which promotes new music. Bruce Hobson, who teaches piano privately in Manchester, Vermont, was born in 1943 in Hartford, Connecticut, where he studied piano and trumpet at the Hartt School of Music in the 1950s. During studies at Columbia University and the New England Conservatory of Music, his composition teachers included Otto Luening, Chou Wen Chung, and Malcolm Peyton. Mr. Hobson's works are published by Equinox Music and Mobart Music Publications. Equinox Music is serving as both publisher and recording company for Mr. Hobson's compositions recorded on his recently released CDs 0101 and 0102. Conceived ten years ago, this recording project has taken Mr. Hobson to Budapest, Warsaw, New York City, Vienna, and also Bratislava, where his Three for two trumpets and orchestra and Concerto for Orchestra were recorded for Vienna Modern Masters CDs 3017 and 3024 respectively. Mr. Hobson has held teaching fellowships at Columbia University and the University of Michigan. Performances of his works have been given by the I.S.C.M., the Donnell Library Composers Forum, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Guild of Composers. The first of his Two Lyric Pieces has been recorded by Michael Arnowitt for Ursa Minor Records; his Trio 1966 was selected to represent Vermont at a Bicentennial concert at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.