Atlantic Center for the Arts

Sydney Hodkinson will serve as master composer at the Atlantic Center for the Arts from 30 October to 9 November 2006. Since 1982, the Atlantic Center’s residency program has provided artists from all disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residences. Located four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains studios for music, painting, sculpture, writing, and dance, as well as a resource library, a black box theater, and a digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists from different disciplines. The master artists personally select a group of associates – talented, emerging/midcareer artists – through an application process administered by the Artlantic Center. During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently. The relaxed atmosphere and unstructured program provide considerable time for artistic regeneration and creation. The Atlantic Center for the Arts provides housing (private room with bath), weekday meals, and 24 hour access to shared studio spaces with wireless Internet.

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Sydney Hodkinson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on 17 January 1934. He studied with Louis Mennini and Bernard Roders at the Eastman School of Music, Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt at Princeton University, and Leslie Bassett and Ross Lee Finney at the University of Michigan, from which he received a doctoral degree in 1968. After teaching instrumental music in public schools New York State, he taught at the University of Virginia from 1958 to 1963, Ohio University from 1963 to 1966, and the University of Michigan from 1968 to 1973. He joined the faculty of the Eastman School of Music in 1973 as director of the Eastman Musica Nova and later the Kilbourn Orchestra. During the academic years 1984 to 1986, he served as Meadows Visiting Professor of Composition at Southern Methodist University, and was Visiting Professor of Composition at the University of Western Ontario during the fall term of 1991. From 1995 until his retirement in 1998, he served as Professor of Composition and Chairman of the Conducting and Ensemble Department at the Eastman School of Music.

His compositions for wind band/ensemble include A Comtemporary Primer (1971), Cortege (1975), Stone Images (1976), Tower (1977), Pillar (1977), Bach Variations (1977) and Blocks (1977)